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The meaning of your life isn’t a puzzle to solve




KEY TAKEAWAYS

  • Arthur Brooks, an author and professor at Harvard University, has spent decades studying what makes people happy.

  • Brooks has noticed many high-achieving individuals suffering from a profound sense of emptiness, a “crisis of people who have everything and feel nothing.”

  • Behavioral scientist Danny Kenny recently spoke with Brooks about why meaning is the “quintessentially complex problem” — something to manage, not solve.

 
 

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The First Prophet of Abundance

David Lilienthal’s account of his years running the Tennessee Valley Authority can read like the Abundance of 1944. We still have a lot to learn from what the book says — and from what it leaves out.

 
 

One  objective:
facilitating  those,
who are so motivated,
to enjoy the benefits of becoming  humble polymaths.   

“The universe
is full of magical things
patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.”

—Eden Phillpotts

4chairs.life

Four wooden chairs arranged in a circle outdoors in a natural setting, surrounded by tall

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The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries.

Nikola Tesla

“It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.”

Vincent Van Gogh

" The unexamined life is not worth living."  

Attributed to Socrates​

“Who knows whether in a couple of centuries

there may not exist universities for restoring the old ignorance?”

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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