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To put it simply: couples who are able to face stresses together reap benefits in health, well-being, and relationship satisfaction.

The Good Life

Robert J. Waldinger and Marc Schulz Ph.D

You can’t do the same things others do and expect to outperform. … Unconventionality shouldn’t be a goal in itself, but rather a way of thinking. In order to distinguish yourself from others, it helps to have ideas that are different and to process those ideas differently. I conceptualize the situation as a simple 2-by-2 matrix:

The Most Important Thing Illuminated

Howard Marks, Paul Johnson

It ignores gratitude, too. This is part of the tranquility, because it’s what makes the tranquility possible. Stoicism is, as much as anything, a philosophy of gratitude – and a gratitude, moreover, rugged enough to endure anything. Philosophers who pine for supreme psychological liberation have often failed to realise that they belong to a confederacy that includes the Stoics. ‘According to nature you want to live?’

Why Stoicism Is One of the Best Mind-Hacks Ever Devised – Lary Wallace | Aeon Essays

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