Stop Chasing Carrots Quotes

“To lead good, happy lives, we need to be able to focus on the book most important to us now. This means to stop reading some and never to start reading others. When we dwell only in possibility, we get nowhere. Doing what has intrinsic value to us helps us decide which books are right for us. It gives us a clear selection compass for which direction we should go in and which we should avoid.”
― Chris Masi, Stop Chasing Carrots: Healing Self-Help Deceptions With a Scientific Philosophy Of Life

“Our daily happiness depends at least four times as much on how we approach life than on what life brings our way.” Mark Leary”
― Chris Masi, Stop Chasing Carrots: Healing Self-Help Deceptions With a Scientific Philosophy Of Life

“Nothing we do to improve our life circumstances has a long-lasting effect on our happiness.”
― Chris Masi, Stop Chasing Carrots: Healing Self-Help Deceptions With a Scientific Philosophy Of Life

“Research shows that the pursuit of material wealth and achievements fails to create true happiness and that happiness depends four times as much on why we do things than on what these things bring our way. While”
― Chris Masi, Stop Chasing Carrots: Healing Self-Help Deceptions With a Scientific Philosophy Of Life

“Self-Help Deception #2: Always believing in ourselves will make our lives better.”
― Chris Masi, Stop Chasing Carrots: Healing Self-Help Deceptions With a Scientific Philosophy Of Life

“Self-Help Deception #1: We can become successful by copying what successful people did.”
― Chris Masi, Stop Chasing Carrots: Healing Self-Help Deceptions With a Scientific Philosophy Of Life

“That's what all self-help books do when they claim to have studied 100 successful people and found the common reason for their success. They mistake a common fact for a cause. In reality, the overwhelming majority of all people who did the same thing as those 100 successful people failed. By ignoring the failures, we are likely to become one of them.”
― Chris Masi, Stop Chasing Carrots: Healing Self-Help Deceptions With a Scientific Philosophy Of Life

“That's where another form of faulty logic comes into action: the survivorship bias. The survivorship bias describes our tendency only to study the survivors or achievers, concluding that what they did must be the reason for their success. With this logic, we ignore those who did the same things but died or failed – we elevate coincidental or meaningless factors to crucial elements of success.”
― Chris Masi, Stop Chasing Carrots: Healing Self-Help Deceptions With a Scientific Philosophy Of Life

“Self-Help Deception #17: We have a need for success. (The truth:Success in itself is unable to satisfy any of our needs.)”
― Chris Masi, Stop Chasing Carrots: Healing Self-Help Deceptions With a Scientific Philosophy Of Life

“Research shows that the pursuit of material wealth and achievements fails to create true happiness and that happiness depends four times as much on why we do things than on what these things bring our way.”
― Chris Masi, Stop Chasing Carrots: Healing Self-Help Deceptions With a Scientific Philosophy Of Life

“reacts to us in a way that reinforces our genetic predisposition. Again, it would be an oversimplification to say that our environment influences us. Our environment sees something in us that makes it react in a certain way, but the cause of this reaction is, at least partly, predetermined by our genes. What”
― Chris Masi, Stop Chasing Carrots: Healing Self-Help Deceptions With a Scientific Philosophy Of Life

“There are millions of self-help books. They have different names, different catch-phrases, and different sounding strategies. In reality, though, self-help books are like different types of cars. They might look differently and make different promises, but they all work the same way. In the case of self-help, most books are a complicated way of saying the same simple thing: believe in something and it will happen. Focus on the things you want, and you will get the things you want. Focus on the things you do not want, and you”
― Chris Masi, Stop Chasing Carrots: Healing Self-Help Deceptions With a Scientific Philosophy Of Life

“Some people see more beauty when they look at the stars than anywhere here on earth. They”
― Chris Masi, Stop Chasing Carrots: Healing Self-Help Deceptions With a Scientific Philosophy Of Life

“wanted to find disconfirming evidence. Only after he failed to falsify his theory, he accepted the logical conclusion that it must be true, avoiding the confirmation bias and finding the truth.”
― Chris Masi, Stop Chasing Carrots: Healing Self-Help Deceptions With a Scientific Philosophy Of Life

“To lead good, happy lives, we need to overcome the self-help deceptions that have spread throughout our society. This book will identify these myths, show why they are hurtful, and replace them with a philosophy of life that can generate happiness and fulfillment. Our approach will be entirely based on scientific research.”
― Chris Masi, Stop Chasing Carrots: Healing Self-Help Deceptions With a Scientific Philosophy Of Life

“Understanding the truth always helps us lead better lives. When we stop clinging to wrong ideas, we free ourselves to allow true and better things to come into our lives. That might feel a little scary at first, but in the long run, it will pay off a thousand-fold. Therefore,”
― Chris Masi, Stop Chasing Carrots: Healing Self-Help Deceptions With a Scientific Philosophy Of Life

“The key to a good life is moderation. We are the happiest when we create the life that satisfies our needs”
― Chris Masi, Stop Chasing Carrots: Healing Self-Help Deceptions With a Scientific Philosophy Of Life