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“Giving people more control over what they do and how they do it increases their happiness, engagement, and sense of fulfillment.” - Cal Newport

Dr. Mark Epstein.

Dan Harris • 10% Happier

In this story, self-knowledge is the precondition for satisfaction. And then, in this same culture, we are also encouraged to believe, by psychoanalysis, that such recognition of what we need and want, were it possible, would be something we couldn’t tolerate;

Adam Phillips • Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life

Selon le psychologue canadien Jordan Peterson, la dépression non clinique intervient quand vous vous sentez bloqué dans votre vie. Quand vous semblez vous éloigner de la personne que vous pourriez devenir, mais vous sentez incapable de vous en approcher. Ou encore, quand vous vous sentez en bas d’une hiérarchie dans un domaine qui est important pou

Jean-Charles Kurdali • Vie intentionnelle: 7 principes intemporels pour ne plus subir mais choisir votre vie (French Edition)

PSYCHOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS.

Arthur Schopenhauer • The Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer (Unexpurgated Edition) (Halcyon Classics)

you have to be doing something that is meaningful to you.

Johann Hari • Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again

I think a lot about the fluctuations of belief—the inevitable up and downs of maintaining engagement with something over long periods of time. Most people seem to think that love is unchanging versus merely enduring, that if you’re really passionate about something you wake up excited to do it every day. I don’t believe that’s true. In fact, it set... See more

Ava • belief over time

The most unsparingly pessimistic of philosophers, Arthur Schopenhauer, seems to have seen the emptiness of this sort of life as an unavoidable result of how human desire functions. We spend our days pursuing various accomplishments that we desire to achieve; and yet for any given accomplishment—attaining tenure at your university, say—it’s always t... See more

Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals

When Amabile analyzed 12,000 diary entries of employees from a variety of industries, she found that 76% of people reported that their best days involved making progress toward goals.