"A dumb thing about our minds is that we never look to reference points that make us feel good. We always look to reference points that make us feel crappy."
— @lauriesantos
"A dumb thing about our minds is that we never look to reference points that make us feel good. We always look to reference points that make us feel crappy." — @lauriesantos
don’t know why we take our worst moods so much more seriously than our best, crediting depression with more clarity than euphoria. We dismiss peak moments and passionate love affairs as an ephemeral chemical buzz, just endorphins
Tim Kreider • We Learn Nothing: Essays and Cartoons
Other people’s heads are too wretched a place for true happiness to have its seat. SCHOPENHAUER, PARERGA AND PARALIPOMENA(1851)
Notes & Highlights for Status Anxiety by Alain de Botton
Happiness too often seems to be less a reflection of our actual happiness and more a reflection of the ways in which we compare ourselves to others.
Dan Ariely • Dollars and Sense
Social comparison is the problem here.