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Antoine • 4 cards
we uncover a level of fatigue we didn’t know we carried, an existential exhaustion that stems from decades of running, chasing, doing, seeking, and adhering to the structures and the schedules laid out by a world that has gone mad.
Anne Berube • The Burnout Antidote
Sherry Ning • You're Overspending Because You Lack Values
Whereas by abstaining from pleasurable substances and/or behaviors for a period of time, we reset our reward pathways and recapture our capacity for joy.
Anna Lembke • The Official Dopamine Nation Workbook: A Practical Guide to Overcoming Addiction in the Age of Indulgence
There is a way forward, and I call it plenitude.
Juliet B. Schor • True Wealth: How and Why Millions of Americans Are Creating a Time-Rich,Ecologically Light,Small-Scale, High-Satisfaction Economy
Mala Chatterjee • How Infinite Jest tethered me to life when I almost let it go
But the horror that’s destroying me today is less noble and more corrosive. It’s a longing to be free of wanting to have thoughts, a desire to never have been anything, a conscious despair in every cell of my body and soul. It’s the sudden feeling of being imprisoned in an infinite cell. Where can one think of fleeing, if the cell is everything?
Fernando Pessoa • The Book of Disquiet (Penguin Modern Classics)
The third principle of plenitude is “true materialism,” an environmentally aware approach to consumption.
Juliet B. Schor • True Wealth: How and Why Millions of Americans Are Creating a Time-Rich,Ecologically Light,Small-Scale, High-Satisfaction Economy
For years I had derived a large part of my meaning in life from the thin, insistent signals of the web. Now they were gone, and I could see how paltry and lacking in substance they were. But, still, I missed them.