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If you look at the 1950s and ask, “What was different that made it feel so great?” this is at least part of your answer. The gap between you and most of the people around you wasn’t that large.
It created an era when it was easy to keep your expectations in check because few people in your social circle lived dramatically better than you did.
Same as Ever
Morgan Housel
Tell your friends you’re a happy person. Then, you’ll be forced to conform to it. You’ll have a consistency bias. You have to live up to it. Your friends will expect you to be a happy person.
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
Eric Jorgenson
The moment you have a child, it’s this really weird thing, but it answers the meaning-of-life, purpose-of-life, question. All of a sudden, the most important thing in the Universe moves from being in your body into the child’s body. That changes you. Your values inherently become a lot less selfish.
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
Eric Jorgenson
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