Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
As the psychologist Daniel Gilbert observed, disbelieving is hard work, and System 2 is easily tired.
Daniel Kahneman • Thinking, Fast and Slow
Which means that my fear always made predictably boring decisions, like a choose-your-own-ending book that always had the same ending: nothingness.
Elizabeth Gilbert • Big Magic: How to Live a Creative Life, and Let Go of Your Fear
trying to see what has to be an unconscious process is like ‘trying to turn up the gas quickly enough to see how the darkness looks’, as William James memorably put it.
Iain McGilchrist • The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions and the Unmaking of the World
“genuinely curious about, well, really everything.”
David Epstein • Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
Daniel Todd Gilbert • Stumbling on Happiness
Paul Dolan has a different idea. To begin with, he is much more interested in people’s experiences of life than in their evaluations of their life.
Paul Dolan • Happiness by Design
What’s Your Priority?
Carol S. Dweck • Mindset - Updated Edition: Changing The Way You think To Fulfil Your Potential
Positive emotion about the present divides into two very different things—pleasures and gratifications—and