Ruut Veenhoven said, “The quality of a society is more important than your place in that society. - Eric Barker

Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.

Fundamentally, your brain doesn’t like or want to believe in randomness. It always believes you have some control, even when you don’t.

It may be delusional but we’re happier deluded. And delusion ironically makes us perform better on average.

And as a paper in American Psychologist showed, “Once a small win has been accomplished, forces are set in motion that favor another small win.