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Look around the room and notice five things you can see. Notice three or four things you can hear. Notice what you can smell, taste, or sense inside your nose or mouth.
The Happiness Trap
Russ Harris
There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto, said the Mennonite.
Blood Meridian
Cormac McCarthy
Humanity is divided into two: on the one hand, those who are improvising their way through life, patching solutions together and putting out fires as they go, but deluding themselves otherwise; and on the other, those doing exactly the same, except that they know it. It’s infinitely better to be the latter (although too much “assertiveness training” consists of techniques for turning yourself into the former).
Remember: the reason you can’t hear other people’s inner monologues of self-doubt isn’t that they don’t have them. It’s that you only have access to your own mind.
Oliver Burkeman's Last Column: The Eight Secrets to a (Fairly) Fulfilled Life
theguardian.com
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