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The Backwards Law
wanting positive experience is a negative experience, accepting the negative experience is a positive experience.
If pursuing the positive is a negative, then pursuing the negative generates positive. For instance,
- The pain you pursue in the gym results in better all-around health and energy.
- The failure in buisness is what leads to a better understanding of what's necessary to be successful.
Being open with your insecurities paradoxically makes you more confident and charismatic around others. Suffering through your fears and anxieties is what allows you to build courage and perseverance.
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Negative Emotions
Emotions are simply biological signals designed to nudge you in the direction of beneficial change.
Negative emotions are a call to action. when you feel them it's because you're supposed to do something.
Positive emotions are re...
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We shouldn't seek to find the ultimate "right" answer for ourselves, but rather, we should seek to chip away all the ways that we're wrong today so that we can be a little less wrong tomorrow.
MARK MANSON
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Sometimes it’s best to give things some space.
“Wanting positive experience is a negative experience; accepting negative experience is a positive experience.“ – Mark Manson
It’s the idea that the more you pursue feeling better all the time, the less satisfied you become, as pursuing something only reinforces the fact th...
The ‘Backwards Law’
When we expect something positive and have a desire for something good, that very experience of want, or to covet, is in a way, a negative experience for us.
Referred to as the ‘Backwards Law’ by the modern philosopher Alan Watts, pursuing something only reinforces the fact that yo...
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