@bigthink: Why we are never content | Mark Manson @iammarkmanson

@filetofsoul_312 :

The key to happiness is low expectations. 💯 Do your best and don't be an asshole. Just be a good person and get out of the way and let life happen. ✊🏽

🌸🪬Rehana🌸🧿 :

please fuck off

Mana :

Nah. I never chased the thing my peers were chasing. They put in a lot of effort, while I barely tried because I was either simply didn’t want it badly enough. Somehow, things still worked out for me in the end. But despite that, I still wasn’t satisfied.

Dan :

To focus on a why you are never content is focussing on a a lack and it might help to talk about what lacks are. Lacks don't exist in reality, they require a mind. What does that mean? A lack exists only in contrast to a person’s expectation of how something should be in order to be good, perfect, pure, etc. So if you want to “focus on the lack of something” you'd have to do so in light of your or someone else’s thought-up expectation(s). In this sense, lacks literally only exist in the mind of the person who perceives them. Finally, they can be focused on as the shadow cast by an expectation. Is it possible that will have the opposite effect? Yes, by following the shadow (lack) back to the expectation casting it out, you can become aware of an expectation you didn’t consciously know you had. If you focus on that now-unhidden expectation, you may find the expectation makes no sense at all. Or makes some sense, but only in the light of yet additional soon-to-be-discovered expectations you didn’t know you held. With the unveiling of the expectation(s) casting the lack and their unravelling, the lack will shrink until it disappears. This can have the opposite effect, that is instead of attaining what was lacked, the sense that anything is lacked will shrink until it disappears.

user5856446865075 :

this is essentially "this is water" by David Foster Wallace

First Principle :

thats quite interesting angle to look at things..thanks for sharing such

Arctic_Ros3 :

Life motto: Just go with the flow.

Dakota An :

That’s like all billionaires

Just_Call_Me_Ole :

Been listening to Alan Watts ☺️

Jules in NYC :

Absolutely ❤️

Hein Htet :

GLOT :

Alan Watts got this from Buddhism. He didn’t originate it.