From Strength to Strength: Finding Success, Happiness, and Deep Purpose in the Second Half of Life
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What I found was a hidden source of anguish that wasn’t just widespread but nearly universal among people who have done well in their careers. I came to call this the “striver’s curse”: people who strive to be excellent at what they do
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“For a minimalist, the objective isn’t to reduce, it’s to eliminate distractions so they can focus on the things that are truly important. Minimalism is just the beginning. It’s a tool. Once you’ve gone ahead and minimized, it’s time to find out what those important things are.”
― Goodbye, Things: The New Japanese Minimalism
― Goodbye, Things: The New Japanese Minimalism
“The beliefs that become mindsets transcend preferences, learned facts, or intellectual opinions. They are core beliefs that reflect your philosophy of life.”
― The Upside of Stress: Why Stress Is Good for You, and How to Get Good at It
― The Upside of Stress: Why Stress Is Good for You, and How to Get Good at It
“If we don’t change course, he fears we are headed toward a world where “there’s going to be an upper class of people that are very aware” of the risks to their attention and find ways to live within their limits, and then there will be the rest of the society with “fewer resources to resist the manipulation, and they’re going to be living more and more inside their computers, being manipulated more and more.”
― Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention—and How to Think Deeply Again
― Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention—and How to Think Deeply Again
“In Medicine 3.0, we have five tactical domains that we can address in order to alter someone’s health. The first is exercise, which I consider to be by far the most potent domain in terms of its impact on both lifespan and healthspan.”
― Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity
― Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity
“My feeling is that minimalists are people who know what’s truly necessary for them versus what they may want for the sake of appearance, and they’re not afraid to cut down on everything in the second category.”
― Goodbye, Things: The New Japanese Minimalism
― Goodbye, Things: The New Japanese Minimalism
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