By default, we typically don't want to hear the truth. We just want to hear confirmation of what we already believe is the truth. - Mark Manson

Challenge yourself to find the good and beautiful thing inside of everyone. It’s there. It’s your job to find it. Not their job to show you.

This, in a nutshell, is what “self-improvement” is really about: prioritizing better values, choosing better things to give a fuck about. Because when you give better fucks, you get better problems. And when you get better problems, you get a better life.

Technology has solved old economic problems by giving us new psychological problems.