The desire for more positive experience is itself a negative experience. And, paradoxically, the acceptance of one’s negative experience is itself a … - Mark Manson
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The desire for more positive experience is itself a negative experience. And, paradoxically, the acceptance of one’s negative experience is itself a positive experience.....It’s what the philosopher Alan Watts used to refer to as “the backwards law” - the idea that the more you pursue feeling better all the time, the less satisfied you become, as pursuing something only reinforces the fact that you lack it in the first place.
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Mark Manson
Mark Manson (born 9 March 1984) is an American self-help author, blogger and entrepreneur.
The desire for more positive experience is itself a negative experience. And, paradoxically, the acceptance of one’s negative experience is itself a positive experience.
Our psyche needs hope to survive the way a fish needs water. Hope is the fuel for our mental engine.
The rare people who do become truly exceptional at something do so not because they believe they’re exceptional. On the contrary, they become amazing because they’re obsessed with improvement. And that obsession with improvement stems from an unerring belief that they are, in fact, not that great at all.
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