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Start with what you want to achieve, instead of limiting yourself to what’s realistic or sustainable.
Will Guidara • Unreasonable Hospitality: The Remarkable Power of Giving People More Than They Expect
Having a strong sense of controlling one’s life is a more dependable predictor of positive feelings of wellbeing than any of the objective conditions of life we have considered.
Morgan Housel • The Psychology of Money: Timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness
That’s where the name “Turpentine” comes from, by the way: it’s inspired by the Picasso quote, of course:
“When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine”
Erik Torenberg • Introducing Turpentine
We have a narrow definition of work as something that can be paid for and that typically exists in the form of a job. The real work is to find the things worth committing to. Then the only “job” is to design your life to continue to do those things.
Paul Millerd • Tweet
French philosopher Simone Weil encourages us to search the root cause:
"All sins are attempts to fill voids."
C.S. Lewis, how did you understand human nature so well? https://t.co/C91vBpvOS4
From X - CS Lewis
PULL THE THORNS FROM YOUR heart. Then you will see the rose gardens within you,” wrote Rumi,
Sharon Salzberg • Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
Addiction is really about the relationship between the person and the experience.” It isn’t enough to ply someone with a drug or a behavior—that person also has to learn that the experience is a viable treatment for whatever ails them psychologically.
Daily Review | Readwise
Irresistible -Adam Alter
The human mind is a remarkable contraption, great at keeping us psychologically buoyant in periods of chaos and allowing us to pay the price later, once the storm has settled.