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THE ROOTS OF DISCONTENT
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi • Flow: The Psychology of Happiness
In my research on desire, I discovered nearly unanimous agreement among thoughtful people that we are unlikely to have a good and meaningful life unless we can overcome our insatiability. There was also agreement that one wonderful way to tame our tendency to always want more is to persuade ourselves to want the things we already have.
William B. Irvine • A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy
The “value-action gap” describes behavior in which our actions fail to match our stated values.
M. Andrew McConnell • Get Out of My Head: Creating Modern Clarity With Stoic Wisdom
“Any prolonged or repeated departures from hedonic or affective neutrality . . . have a cost.”
Anna Lembke • Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
Emotional Health: Peter Attia on Huberman Lab Podcast
https://open.spotify.com/episode/2Kx52dG1uL75VZ2mdfAQdw?si=f1b2d39a7fc44a1b
(02:41:05) Emotional Health
(02:53:45) Mortality & Preserving Relationship Quality
(03:02:20) Relationships vs. Outcomes, Deconstructing Emotions
(03:09:34) Treatment Centers, Emotional Processing & Recovery
‘mad without being mad’. Manie sans delire.
Kevin Dutton • The Wisdom of Psychopaths
“A wandering mind,” the researchers write, “is an unhappy mind.”
Brad Stulberg • The Practice of Groundedness
we found that lacking a sense of productivity is why people with excessive amounts of available time feel less satisfied in their lives.14