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by
Mark Manson
“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
camus!
Subtlety #1: Not giving a fuck does not mean being indifferent; it means being comfortable with being different.
“Don’t hope for a life without problems,” the panda said. “There’s no such thing. Instead, hope for a life full of good problems.”
To be happy we need something to solve. Happiness is therefore a form of action;
solve problems; be happy.
Emotions are simply biological signals designed to nudge you in the direction of beneficial change.
In the long run, completing a marathon makes us happier than eating a chocolate cake. Raising a child makes us happier than beating a video game. Starting a small business with friends while struggling to make ends meet makes us happier than buying a new computer. These activities are stressful, arduous, and often unpleasant. They also require withstanding problem after problem. Yet they are some of the most meaningful moments and joyous things we’ll ever do. They involve pain, struggle, even anger and despair—yet once they’re accomplished, we look back and get all misty-eyed telling our
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Good values are 1) reality-based, 2) socially constructive, and 3) immediate and controllable. Bad values are 1) superstitious, 2) socially destructive, and 3) not immediate or controllable.
There is a simple realization from which all personal improvement and growth emerges. This is the realization that we, individually, are responsible for everything in our lives, no matter the external circumstances.
each individual gets to decide what is “enough,” and that love can be whatever we let it be.
