Shane Parrish writes, “The little mental trick is to remember that success, money, fame, and beauty, all the things we pursue, are merely the numerator! If the denominator—shame, regret, unhappiness, loneliness—is too large, our ‘Life Satisfaction Score’ ends up being tiny, worthless. Even if we have all that good stuff! … It’s so simple. This is why you see people that ‘should be happy’ who are not. Big denominators destroy self-worth.”
