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@QiaochuYuan A good friend once said to me, “I don’t know, I just feel like everything in my life isn’t how it ought to be.” I asked her, “well, have you tried changing everything?” In all seriousness, changing ourselves is very difficult and slow. Changing our environment is easier.

An interesting observation in Maslow's work on self-actualized people is that they tend to be less "introspective" than others. Meaning they spend less time thinking about themselves and their feelings. But they are more attuned to their inner compass when *acting on the world*.

the stuff you joke about (even ironically or whatever) has a way of shaping your reality so be careful and deliberate with that stuff. a lot of people out here fumbling their own bags by joking about outcomes they don’t want. you might as well joke about the outcomes you do want

Every person needs to go through at least one year of excruciating uncertainty, where each day is adorned by an uncomfortable layer of mental doubt One must experience what it's like to believe it's all over, only to eventually make it out alive through the mere act of patience… Show more

The only way for life to not feel so hard is to just see how it goes The opposite of this is believing things are supposed to be a certain way, and that it's somehow bad if things are not You're this age, with this much money, at this stage, etc. Nothing is ever objectively… Show more