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What if pleasure and displeasure were so tied together that whoever wanted to have as much as possible of one must also have as much as possible of the other … you have the choice: either as little displeasure as possible, painlessness in brief … or as much displeasure as possible as the price for the growth of an abundance of subtle pleasures and joys that have rarely been relished yet? If you decide for the former and desire to diminish and lower the level of human pain, you also have to diminish and lower the level of their capacity for joy.
The Consolations of Philosophy
Alain De Botton
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
Once you truly understand that you’re guaranteed to miss out on almost every experience the world has to offer, the fact that there are so many you still haven’t experienced stops feeling like a problem. Instead, you get to focus on fully enjoying the tiny slice of experiences you actually do have time for—and the freer you are to choose, in each moment, what counts the most.
Four Thousand Weeks
Oliver Burkeman
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