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The easy answer to the question “What keeps people from living contented lives?” is “They are greedy.” But often what presents as greed is actually just a by-product of chaos and the feeling of being time-constrained. When chaos reins and the calendar is over-scheduled, then we begin to make decisions that prioritize convenience, we imbibe
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“Size” only does so much in the world of art. It’s there, for sure! Pink Floyd’s “Shine On You Crazy Diamonds (Pts. 1-5)” is much longer (at over 13 minutes) than Ramones’ “Blitzkrieg Bop” (barely 2 minutes). But no reasonable person with even a slight modicum of musical taste would say that the “size difference”
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Attempts to exempt yourself or your children from boredom are inevitably expensive, both in the sense that the activities you purchase cost money and in the sense that boredom is an important feature of being.
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There’s this great quote, in a recent profile of former Treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin: “In finance, there are gorillas, there are apes, and there are chimps….Chimps want to be apes, and apes want to be gorillas.” And even the gorillas want to know who’s on top! The pursuit of power and wealth is dehumanizing, and
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No amount of money–neither income nor assets–can keep you from living on the edge. Wealth as it’s typically defined cannot and will not keep you from engaging in patterns of behavior which push you to the limit of what is sustainable, whether financially, physically, emotionally, spiritually, or often as not, all of the above. Anecdotally,
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Money is fungible: a dollar in your right pocket is the same as a dollar in your left pocket. But of course it’s not that simple: The money you receive from your job feels different–it IS different–than money you receive as an inheritance from your mom. Money you give away is different than money you
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Such is the headline of this Wall Street Journal article, and the content of a number of quotes inside it. This is not just a function of the people interviewed in the article who make more than than $400k as a household annually. Indeed, almost no one thinks of themselves as rich, and it has
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“You have bits and pieces that you remember. And especially on homers, I have flashbacks of certain aspects of it, but there’s a lot of ’em I don’t even remember what happened. It’s kind of crazy. It sucks. I wish I remembered.” Corey Seager Deep within a recent article on the baseball-hitting savant Corey Seager,
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An increase in the diagnosis of a particular problem is not the same thing as an increase in the actual incidence of that problem, but that’s hard to come to terms with in real time. A related truth is that, as my physical therapist says, just the act of getting an MRI dramatically increases the
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