Turn Toward What is Hard, Not Away From It—Ryan Holiday
“One way to go through life is to turn away from the things that are hard. You can close your eyes and ears to what is unpleasant. You can take the easy way, forgoing difficulty whenever possible. The other way is the Stoic way—to see hardship as an opportunity, as a test not an obstacle, a chance to use all that stands in your path as fuel to make you brighter and better.”
Are We Happy Yet?—Jessica Grose →
h/t Lukas Bolte
How Cults Use Language to Control—Otherwords
h/t Joseph Kimball
The Fastest Path to African Prosperity: Charter Cities, Startup Cities and Special Economic Zones—Magatte Wade →
The link on the title leads to the substack article on the path to African prosperity. Also, don’t miss Maggate Wade’s TED Talk: “Why it's too hard to start a business in Africa -- and how to change it”.
A Nonsupernaturalist Creed
“There is one miracle for all time: the existence of the universe — including the existence of consciousness. Every birth is a celebration of that miracle, and all our fear of death is worship of that miracle.”
Related Posts:
Miles’s Unitaritan-Universalist sermons:
Sharing Epiphanies (including the video)
The Message of Mormonism for Atheists Who Want to Stay Atheists (video here)
Other related posts:
Being Less Controlling by Softening Attachment (included here mainly for the sake the links at the bottom of the post)
From Happiness Data to Economic Conclusions—Dan Benjamin, Kristen Cooper, Ori Heffetz and Miles Kimball →
This paper gives our team’s overall take on the economics of happiness literature, and our recommendations for those interested in research in this area.