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“We must always remember that possessions have no inherent value. They become what we make them. If they increase our capacity to give, they become something good. If they increase our focus on ourselves and become standards by which we measure other people, they become something bad.”

— Kent Nerburn

People who experience flow describe it as “a state of effortless concentration so deep that they lose their sense of time, of themselves, of their problems,” and their descriptions of the joy of that state are so compelling that Csikszentmihalyi has called it an “optimal experience.” Many activities can induce a sense of flow, from painting to raci

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Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.”

— Calvin Coolidge

Novelist and poet Robert Louis Stevenson on the shortness of life:

“Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.”

I did try to get my kids into meditation before but it was more of a confirmation to them of how annoying their dad is than anything they would take up.

An analogy: most of the time you're not thinking about breathing. Breathing just happens automatically (analogy to "flow state"). If in that moment it occurs to you to think explicitly about and focus exclusively on your breathing, you can't help but feel like you are now partially controlling it (analogy to "snapping out of" the flow state). Nondu... See more

happiness started when life [Music] started the starting point was dopamine dopamine creates motivation primarily to find food so whoever in evolution had more dopamine was finding more food and that proliferated more through Evolution you can actually tag the different reward systems to certain forx where something new

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Check out this quote from the Waking Up app:

https://dynamic.wakingup.com/quote/QTC3B6F?source=content%20share&share_id=5509ADDD&c... See more

Haruki Murakami on how our challenges shape us:

“And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.”