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The Path to Happiness: Do What You Love, Not What You Like
I spend a lot of time thinking about optimizing my life. Sometimes that's towards optimizing to achieve some other goal-strengthen my business, get in better shape or have better relationships. However, the ultimate goal is to be happy and fulfilled, so why not optimize for that more directly?
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Doing what you love is mostly a choice
And it's almost completely in your control.
You can't fully avoid the things you have to do. But you can make adjustments to the things you slightly like or reduce guilt from t...
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Doing what you love: what it takes
To do what you love, you have to have:
- Courage: the shoulds and socially-acceptable activities you merely like, often are the default, and doing what you love automa...
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Optimizing for happiness
A route to greater happiness, for both day-to-day enjoyment and long-term fulfillment with who you are and where you are in life means doing more of the things you love and cutting back on ...
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For the longest time, I believed that there's only one purpose of life: And that is to be happy. Right? Why else go through all the pain and hardship? It's to achieve happiness in some way. And I'm not the only person who believed that.
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“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.” - Ralph Waldo Emerso...
“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happiness is merely a byproduct of usefulness. You don’t have to change the world or anything. Just make it a little bit better than you were born. When you do little useful things every day, it adds ...
Happiness is merely a byproduct of usefulness. You don’t have to change the world or anything. Just make it a little bit better than you were born. When you do little useful things every day, it adds up to a life that is well lived. A life that mattered.