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I’m indebted to the Jungian therapist James Hollis for the insight that major personal decisions should be made not by asking, “Will this make me happy?”, but “Will this choice enlarge me or diminish me?” We’re terrible at predicting what will make us happy: the question swiftly gets bogged down in our narrow preferences for security and control. But the enlargement question elicits a deeper, intuitive response.
Oliver Burkeman's Last Column: The Eight Secrets to a (Fairly) Fulfilled Life
theguardian.com
The research concluded that **our ability to engage the aMCC and to build up its volume and increase its activity depends on one critical feature: resistance.**
There needs to be a degree of friction—a lack of reflexive desire to engage in the movement.
Another Huberman-Induced Paradigm Shift.
Charlotte Grysolle
Any activity can be a toward move or an away move, depending on the situation.
The Happiness Trap
Russ Harris
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