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second nature.
insight meditation.
positive interpretation
sub-second. [7]
sunlight
desiring
dropping caffeine
working out
peace of body,
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consistency bias.
secrets
funk?
meditation, music, and exercise
Hedonic adaptation
screen activities
things out of obligation rather than out of interest? [11]
Stay optimistic. [11]
Politics, academia, and social status
zero-sum ...
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sero...
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three choices:
change
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Pick one big desire in your life at any given time to give yourself purpose and motivation.
What is not a good option is to sit around wishing you would change it but not changing it, wishing you could leave it but not leaving it and
not accepting it.
balanced and centered.
step back
see the grander scheme ...
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adapt
One hack is stepping back and looking at previous bits of suffering I’ve had in my life.
minor annoyances.
“What is the positive of this situation?”
accept things you can’t change?
embracing death.
There is no legacy.
Your life is a firefly blink in a night.
futility of what you’re doing,
Keeping death on the forefront
Ultimately, you have to take responsibility.
Be yourself,
No one in the world is going to beat you at being you.
emulate.
errand.
combinatorics
To make an original contribution, you have to be irrationally obsessed with something.
health.
physical
