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Emotions are survival mechanisms, but they don’t always work for the individual. They work across a large number of trials to keep the species alive. The individual may live or die, but over a few million years, more mammals lived than died by letting emotion take over, and so emotion was selected. For people who are raised in modern civilization, the wilderness is novel and full of unfamiliar hazards. To survive in it, the body must learn and adapt.

Deep Survival

Laurence Gonzales

LOOK-ELSEWHERE EFFECT There is now so much information in the world that almost every possible pattern you can imagine exists somewhere, often due to a purely accidental arrangement. As such, by looking in the right place, you can find evidence for almost anything you desire.

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To me, happiness is not about positive thoughts. It’s not about negative thoughts. It’s about the absence of desire, especially the absence of desire for external things. The fewer desires I can have, the more I can accept the current state of things, the less my mind is moving, because the mind really exists in motion toward the future or the past. The more present I am, the happier and more content I will be. If I latch onto a feeling, if I say, “Oh, I’m happy now,” and I want to stay happy, then I’m going to drop out of that happiness. Now, suddenly, the mind is moving. It’s trying to attach to something. It’s trying to create a permanent situation out of a temporary situation.

The Almanack of Naval Ravikant

Eric Jorgenson, Jack Butcher, and Tim Ferriss

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