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Mark Manson
Why do I consider this to be success/failure? How am I choosing to measure myself? By what standard am I judging myself and everyone around me?
the question is by what standard do we measure ourselves?
We don’t always control what happens to us. But we always control how we interpret what happens to us, as well as how we respond.
It’s the backwards law again: the more you try to be certain about something, the more uncertain and insecure you will feel.
Buddhism argues that your idea of who “you” are is an arbitrary mental construction and that you should let go of the idea that “you” exist at all; that the arbitrary metrics by which you define yourself actually trap you, and thus you’re better off letting go of everything. In a sense, you could say that Buddhism encourages you to not give a fuck.
