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270 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 10, 2021
"...One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.” -Abraham Maslow.
You must understand that your mind is not a delicate machine to be protected from variability and stress. The mind is made better through stress and discomfort. When you force yourself out of your comfort zone, you gain reference experiences that teach you the things you feared aren’t so bad..."
"He has the most who is most content with the least.” - Diogenes
“The sage desires to have few desires.” - Lao Tzu
"The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less." - Socrates
"We are enriched not by what we possess, but by what we can do without.” - Immanuel Kant.
"I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them." - John Stuart Mill
"Kaizen is a Japanese term often used in business, meaning continuous change for the better - an ongoing endeavor for incremental optimization. This concept can be applied to the psychological operating system just as easily. Individual thoughts, emotions, and actions are never the problem, in the same way that the individual drops of water leaking through your roof are not the problem. We are interested in the source. In the structural patterns."