People who sacrifice their health, their relationships, their joy, in order to get what they want from life, have a strong tendency to dislike people who are getting what they want from life whilst enjoying the best version of themselves and being surrounded by people they love.
Any emotion runs its full chemical course in the body in about 90 seconds. Anything you are still feeling 5 minutes later is being willfully sustained by you, not by biology.
When it comes to developing the mind you need to build the life you want, the low-hanging fruit is to learn how to better regulate your emotions, you'd be surprised by how much "smarter" you suddenly become once you are no longer anxious.
People are addicted to their misery. There is a comfort in accepting that this is all life has to offer, so there is no point in trying anything else. Because if you let yourself admit otherwise, you have work, you have goals. And most people would rather live a life of nothingness than have a purpose that needs to be fulfilled.
Skill development feels like failure for longer than it feels like progress. The gap between starting something and being good enough to feel it working is long enough that most people quit before things turn around.
“Greatness does not come out of intelligence, it comes from character.
Character is not formed out of smart people: it is formed out of people who have suffered.”
— Nvidia CEO, Jensen Huang
“Greatness does not come out of intelligence, it comes from character.
Character is not formed out of smart people: it is formed out of people who have suffered.”
— Nvidia CEO, Jensen Huang
A quick and easy tip for building habits that last:
Pick a standard time and place to do it.
It’s easier to wake up knowing “I exercise at 4 pm” than to decide each time when to fit a habit into your day.
If it’s already decided, all you need to do is show up.