Desire’s a contract you make to be unhappy until you get what you want. You become disturbed because you want something. Then you work really hard to get it and are miserable in the meantime. Finally, when you get it, you revert to the state you were in before you…

I’ve been thinking a lot about toxic positivity lately, and I definitely used to be someone who didn’t want to entertain any complaining in any form. What I learned is that complaining isn’t harmful in itself, and can serve a useful purpose. Toxic positivity is ignoring all the negatives, refusing…

“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” Viktor Frankl When we’re stressed, we react. And rarely does anything good come from reaction. We tend to look back with embarrassment on…

You can very slowly but steady and methodically improve your happiness baseline, just like you can improve your fitness — Naval Ravikant Peace of mind, happiness, contentment. Whatever word you call it, most of us are spending all our time and energy chasing this. …