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We may not be earning as much and people at large may not care a jot, but we’ll have all the affirmation we need for ourselves in the knowledge that we are—on a good day—able to lend someone else a reason to live.

Alain de Botton • A Therapeutic Journey: Lessons from The School of Life

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Tripp Lanier • This Book Will Make You Dangerous: The Irreverent Guide For Men Who Refuse to Settle

• Estimates say that 83% of us will be hit with a mental health crisis in our lives, we can all make the choices to invest wisely in this area to improve our ‘mental durability’ to deal with it properly.

James Beshara • Mental Wealth

to operate at your highest level of contribution requires that you deliberately tune in to what is important in the here and now.

Greg Mckeown • Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

Michael Norton, a professor of management at Harvard Business School and a coauthor of the book Happy Money,

Tim Leberecht • The Business Romantic

In his 2023 paper on the rise of 21st-century solitude, Atalay, at the Philadelphia Fed, calculated that by one measure, sociability means considerably more for happiness than money does: A five-percentage-point increase in alone time was associated with about the same decline in life satisfaction as was a 10 percent lower household income.

Derek Thompson • The Anti-Social Century

Results from a randomized trial suggest that the implementation of an intervention designed to promote the use of one’s central character strengths in new ways improves well-being (Seligman et al., 2005). The intervention consists of taking a survey to identify one’s five central character strengths and then using one of these top five strengths in... See more

Harvard University • How to Flourish: Practical Activities Supported by Scientific Research

For example, funding time by using a grocery delivery service allows you to spend more minutes engaged in the part of making a meal that you like—cooking. Again, a quick calculation shows you’re still saving time: getting rid of deciding what to eat (ten minutes) and shopping for the food (twenty minutes) only once a week frees up twenty-six hours

Ashley Whillans • Time Smart: How to Reclaim Your Time and Live a Happier Life

My Oversubscribed Life

Kelly Stout esquire.com