Nancy

“Just like evolution, the key is realizing that the more perfect you try to become, the more vulnerable you generally are.”
― Morgan Housel, Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

“The first rule of happiness is low expectations”
― Morgan Housel, Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

“As the neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett writes in her book How Emotions Are Made, “You may think that in everyday life, the things you see and hear influence what you feel, but it’s mostly the other way around: What you feel alters your sight and hearing.” People who are scared take in a scene differently. Our ears, for example, immediately adjust to focus on high and low frequencies—a scream or a growl—rather than midrange frequencies, which include normal human speech. Anxiety narrows our attention and diminishes our peripheral vision. A feeling of happiness, by contrast, widens our peripheral vision. A person who feels safe because of the reliable and empathetic presence of others will see the world as a wider, more open, and happier place.

The people who practice effective empathy have suffered in ways that give them understanding and credibility.”
― David Brooks, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

“People don’t remember books; they remember sentences.”
― Morgan Housel, Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes