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We tend to place a lot of emphasis on our circumstances, assuming that what happens to us (or fail to happen) determines how we feel. From this perspective, the small-scale details of hw you spend your days aren't that important, because what matters are the large-scale outcomes, such as whether or not your get a promotion or move to that nicer apartment.
Our brain instead construct our world view based on what we pay attention to. If you focus on a cancer diagnosis, you and your life become unhappy, and dark, but if you focus instead on an evening martini, you and your life become more pleasant, even though the circumstances in both scenarios are the same.
"Who you are, what you think, feel, and do, what you love, is the sum of what you focus on"
38. Attention Economy:
The world is competing for your attention. Therefore, your attention has value like real currency, and should be treated as such. Ask yourself, what are you wasting attention on, and where would investing it yield the best return?
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MAN IN THE CAR PARADOX
You imagine that if you owned a fancy car, people would admire you. But in reality people focus on the car, not on you, and think to themselves “Man, if I owned a car like that, people would admire me…”
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