Ten Steps Towards Happiness (2015)
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Ten Steps Towards Happiness (2015)
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#2Came in not expecting much, but those are all good points, expressed concisely.
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#3I was just reminiscing about an old Pieter Hintjens post with my kids yesterday. They still hold up. RIP
(Needs a 2016 in the title)
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#4I was just reminiscing about an old Pieter Hintjens post with my kids yesterday. They still hold up. RIP (Needs a 2016 in the title)
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#5I upped the font size on my Pixel recently and this is one of those sites where (in Firefox) the sidebar takes up more than 50% of the width of the screen and retains tiny text while the article itself wraps on a couple words per line.
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#6I have been trying to square such suggestions for happiness with G.B. Shaw's quote:
> "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
The steps towards happiness basically require accepting the world as is and appreciating it as is. Does that mean happy people are reasonable? And if they are, does that mean that happy people do not drive progress? Are there happy AND unreasonable people?
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#7I have been trying to square such suggestions for happiness with G.B. Shaw's quote: > "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." The steps towards happiness basically require accepting the world as is and appreciating it as is. Does that mean happy people are reasonable? And if they ar…
It's not a binary choice, but a spectrum. It depends on the scope and your own abilities - you can't turn a river around with a stick, but you can clean up your part of the lawn. Keep control over what you can control, and don't get too upset about what you can't - so with a little effort you change (or progress) a little part of the world.
Funnily enough I also know some happy people who adhere to none of these points.
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#8Related, earlier today:
The Price of Happiness (62 points, 32 comments)
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#9I have been trying to square such suggestions for happiness with G.B. Shaw's quote: > "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." The steps towards happiness basically require accepting the world as is and appreciating it as is. Does that mean happy people are reasonable? And if they ar…
You can appreciate the world and still do Hard Work to make it better - definitely not mutually exclusive. Be unreasonable. Be Progressive.
Temper it all with Desiderata[0], since we’re being philosophical.
Re: Ten Steps Towards Happiness (2015)
#10I have been trying to square such suggestions for happiness with G.B. Shaw's quote: > "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." The steps towards happiness basically require accepting the world as is and appreciating it as is. Does that mean happy people are reasonable? And if they ar…
It's not a binary choice, but a spectrum. It depends on the scope and your own abilities - you can't turn a river around with a stick, but you can clean up your part of the lawn. Keep control over what you can control, and don't get too upset about what you can't - so with a little effort you change (or progress) a little part of the world. Funnily enough I also know some happy people who adhere to none of these poin…
> you can't turn a river around with a stick
Somebody forgot to tell this[0] guy.