There is no one size fits all solution for almost anything in life.
You have to spend a lot of time looking in the mirror, so to speak, to figure out who you are and what you want, and to play the game that you're playing.
MORGAN HOUSEL
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When two separate and unrelated things - a podcast and a song playing in the background - seemed to be conversing and then suddenly saying the same thing.
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JORDAN B. PETERSON
Status is a very old game and a zero-sum game.
We’ve been playing it since monkey tribes. It’s hierarchical. Who’s number one? Who’s number two? Who’s number three? And for number three to move to number two, number two has to move out of that slot. So, status is a zero-sum game.
Politics is an example of a status game.
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3. Stop comparing
No matter how you choose to define happiness —short-term or long-term — comparison will rob you of it. Whether we compare our finances, our body type, our vacations, our talents, our house size or our shoe size, there are no winners in the game of comparison. But here’s the good news: Nobody is f...
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