Mark Rudden
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Mark Rudden
"The first wealth is health." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
When you choose whom to follow on Twitter, you’re choosing what types of mindsets and aesthetics to expose yourself to on a regular basis. You’re choosing what types of conversations to have. You’re choosing to be reminded regularly of certain things, and not of others. This is a kind of Programmable attention.
Programmable attention
This quote from Tony Hsieh contains so much truth: “Happiness is really just about four things: perceived control, perceived progress, connectedness (number and depth of your relationships), and vision/meaning (being part of something bigger than yourself).”
“Your job, throughout your entire life, is to disappoint as many people as it takes to avoid disappointing yourself.”
— Glennon Doyle
— Glennon Doyle
Brain Food: Positive Inertia
“If you ask other people about every decision you make, you're going to end up doing exactly what everyone else does and getting the same results that everyone else gets.”
Brain Food: The Rarest Thing You Possess
I know that the people who will make you feel warm and fuzzy when you’re sad, and the people who will give you brutally honest feedback, are usually different people. Ideally you want to have relationships with both kinds, and reward them for their strengths, rather than getting mad at them for failing to do what they’re bad at.
"If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it." — Lucy Larcom
Regarding "one of those days", when everything seems to go wrong: most of these aren't really all that bad, we just make them that way by noticing the everyday negative things more, and by creating opportunities for entropy to manifest simply by expecting it to. Most of "those" days can be conquered by doggedly refusing to accept a whole day
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