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shinzen young’s periodic table of happiness elements. https://t.co/6YNQQpQOMl

“Get busy living or get busy dying.”

- Andy Dufresne, The Shawshank Redemption.

The first step to a transformed world (or a transformed life) is a tough one: we have to give up our ideas of what the transformation looks like. To surrender our visions of preferred outcomes. Trust me, whatever actual transformation comes out of living with Reality day by day, it’s going to be much better than whatever plans your current ego has ... See more

Here are eight imperatives—all of them drawing strength and sustenance from the humanities:

1. We need a way of defining and pursuing progress that doesn’t reduce that concept to something that only comes from a digital device.


2. We desperately need access to values and wisdom that aren’t corrupted by the relentless financial metrics and imposed flavor-of

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When drawing, the trick is to spend more time looking at the thing you are trying to draw than at your picture. This is true for writing, too.

Three signs you’re scared of feeling joy:

1 You think you have to earn it

2 You focus on what could go wrong rather than right

3 You constantly feel like the other shoe is going to drop

Jacob Falkovich says that single people often seek out similarity when complementarity is what makes relationships cohere long-term. It’s a great observation. But how to operationalize it? Maybe: look for someone you can’t initially understand, but also don’t feel like walking away from.