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At least to themselves they are a good person. Though you kill people, it’s because you have to. You may feel bad in this very instance. On the outside you may say you’re bad. But deep down inside yourself you still believe you are a good person.
If everyone is a good person, let’s see the good in each other. After all we are NOT what we do.
“I use poetry to help me work through what I don’t understand, but I show up to each new poem with a backpack full of everywhere else that I’ve been.” ~Sarah Kay
"Everybody is a genius but if you judge the fish by its ability to climb a tree it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. ~Albert Einstein"
Motivated people are not necessarily happier than the unmotivated. Thomas Edison failed ten thousands times in his invention of the bulb. Obviously he must have been highly motivated. But he must also have experienced a lot of stress.
When you feel discouraged and want to quit, just keep writing. When you’re not sure if what you’re writing is any good or if it will ever get any better, just keep writing. Stop talking and complaining and whining and questioning yourself. And do this one very simple (but very hard) thing: Just keep on keeping writing.
Did you know our brain cannot think of the very present moment? When we think, we think of the past or future, or ideas, which are timeless.
When a car behind us is horning continuously, we think the driver is a jerk or that we’re driving too slow and should speed up or that the guy behind us may be in a hurry and we should let him overtake us, …
All these have nothing to do with the present moment. The sounds from the horn, your hands on the steering wheel, the wind blowing up the dust in the street,… are the present moments. And these only our five senses could experience: hearing, sight, touch, smell and taste.
What makes us happy? How about the answer from Assistant Clinical Professor of psychology at Harvard Medical School Ronald D. Siegel, from the perspective of Positive Psychology?
Whether you are asking yourself or others, questions are powerful for our growth. It’s unquestionable that the day we stop asking is the day we stop growing.
“He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.” ~Chinese proverb
This article is the NYT’s excerpt of a new book by Charles Duhigg called The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business. From the section “How Target Knows What You Want Before You Do - When Companies Predict (and manipulate) Habits”
