Insightful
We are building something immense together that, though invisible and immaterial, is a structure, one we reside within—or, rather, many overlapping structures.
Rebecca Solnit • Rebecca Solnit: How Change Happens
Finding meaning in something random was described by researchers as an important factor in the formation of paranormal and delusional beliefs, and has been found to be implicated in vulnerability to schizophrenia.
Dr. Hannah Rose • The Dangers of Apophenia: Not Everything Happens for a Reason
The trick is to repackage your motivation to change your perspective, making the process of achieving your goals as important as the result, thus helping to avoid an anti-climax upon crossing the finish line
Dr. Hannah Rose • The Arrival Fallacy: Why We Should Decouple Our Happiness From Our Goals
The dearth of optimistic visions of the future, at least in the United States, is central to the psychic atmosphere of this bleak era. Pessimism is everywhere: in opinion polls, in rising suicide rates and falling birthrates, and in the downwardly mobile trajectory of millennials.
New York Times • The Darkness Where the Future Should Be
What happens to a society that loses its capacity for awe and wonder at things to come?
New York Times • The Darkness Where the Future Should Be
When, in the 1970s, the Sex Pistols sang “There is no future,” there was at least a confrontational relish to it. Now there’s just dread.
New York Times • The Darkness Where the Future Should Be
Our initial findings suggest that open goals can lead to performance at least as good as (and in some cases better than) SMART goals
Christian Swann • So-Called ‘SMART Goals’ Are a Case of Style Over Substance
The Eightfold Path, however, is holistic. Each branch is intrinsically linked, and intended to be followed concurrently. Without understanding the seven other forms of guidance, let alone practising them, mindfulness becomes stripped of its essential meaning
Chris Wheatley • When Mindfulness Meets Capitalism, It Loses Its Way
If you are meditating in order to grow the wealth of your business then you are approaching the act with, as Buddhist’s would say, wrong intention