How to Be Happy, Reverse Bucket Lists, the Four False Idols, and More — Arthur C. Brooks

your satisfaction is your haves divided by your wants.)

You can increase your satisfaction temporarily and inefficiently by having more, or permanently and securely by wanting less.)

ridiculous ambitions and desires of money or whatever, power, ambition, admiration, all these things that I want from other people that we all want because we're human and Mother Nature wires us to accumulate the rewards that'll help us survive and pass our genes)

I know how evolutionary psychology works, and I know that these things are going to occur to me as natural goals, but I do not want to be owned by them. I want to manage them. I don't want them to be like phantasms in my limbic system managing me.

intention without attachment)

And Thích Nhất Hạnh said, and I almost had an impact on my, but I reflected on it upon his death that one of the greatest attachments that people have in modern life is to their views and opinions. That's a real attachment. It can be as dangerous as your attachment to money or power. Why? Because people treat their opinions as if they were gold, they're jewels.)