A Little Happier Quotes

“Goal-setting fixates us on the future, and is closely related to the notion that there is a ladder of success we must climb. We choose our GCSEs at school based on the A Levels we think we must like, based on what we think we will want to do at university, based on what job we are aiming for, based on what promotions will be available … in order to reach … what? There is no final plateau that is reached: instead, we have relentlessly focused forward while life has slipped by and happened in the meantime. An alternative thought may be helpful: to be guided by a sense of what’s enjoyable.”
― Derren Brown, A Little Happier: Notes for reassurance

“We mistake the horizon we see for the parameters of the world.”
― Derren Brown, A Little Happier: Notes for reassurance