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Instead, look for admirable intrinsic characteristics in others—virtues such as compassion, faith, fortitude, and honesty. Imitating these characteristics cultivates intrinsic motivations. Thus, they are the best criteria for finding the right role models and mentors to imitate and learn from.
How to Feel Successful Without Keeping Score
theatlantic.com
This technique is often helpful to disrupt cognitive processes like worrying, ruminating, obsessing. Step 1 is to name the process (e.g., “Here’s worrying”). Sometimes that is enough to unhook you. But if it doesn’t, step 2 is to drop anchor, which pulls you out of your head and helps you refocus on what you’re doing.
The Happiness Trap
Harris, Russ
We shout when we can’t find the remote control because of an implicit belief in a world in which remote controls do not get mislaid. Rage is caused by a conviction, almost comic in its optimistic origins (however tragic in its effects), that a given frustration has not been written into the contract of life.
The Consolations of Philosophy
Alain De Botton
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