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They don’t confuse a bad feeling for a bad life. They are aware of, and avoid, extrapolation, which is essentially projecting the present moment into the foreseeable future—believing that the moment at hand constitutes what your entire life amounted to, rather than just being another passing, transitory experience in the whole. Emotionally intelligent people allow themselves their “bad” days. They let themselves be fully human. It’s in this non-resistance that they find the most peace of all.
101 Essays That Will Change the Way You Think
Brianna Wiest
This turns out to explain why its so easy for people to end up intellectually stuck. Even when they’re literally the best in the world in their field.
Reality Has a Surprising Amount of Detail
johnsalvatier.org
One of history’s few iron laws is that luxuries tend to become necessities and to spawn new obligations. Once people get used to a certain luxury, they take it for granted. Then they begin to count on it. Finally they reach a point where they can’t live without it.
Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari
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