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Desire for positivity
- The desire for more positive experience is a negative experience and the acceptance of negative experience is itself a positive experience.
- The more you pursue feeling better all the time, the less satisfied you become, as pursuing something only reinforces the fact that you lack it in the first place.
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Failure to Success
- The magnitude of your success depends on how many times you failed at something.
- Failing and learning is the only way to grow.
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Okay to be not okay
- Life isn’t meant to go your way all the time, and that’s okay. It’s okay for life to suck sometimes because that’s part of life.
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Curiosity is key for growth
- Certainty is the enemy of growth. We never know if something happens for good or bad.
- Uncertainty and curiosity is the root of all progress.
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Know what trully matters for you
Maturity is what happens when one learns to only give a f*ck about what’s truly f*ck-worthy.
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Choose your struggle
Happiness comes from solving problems but problems will never end in life, the goal is to have better and meaningful problems.
We need to choose our struggle because that’s inevitable. You are defined by what you’re willing to struggle for.
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“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...
"“The desire for a more positive experience is itself a negative experience. And, paradoxically, the acceptance of one’s negative experience is itself a positive experience.”"
MARK MANSON
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