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The reason lottery winners and paraplegics return to their previous levels of life-satisfaction isn’t that happiness levels never change—we know they can change dramatically.¹⁰ It’s that these types of events, these gains and losses of
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“Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.”
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“Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.”
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“Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.”
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“The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.”
― The Culture of Counter-Culture: Edited Transcripts
― The Culture of Counter-Culture: Edited Transcripts
“But the life of a man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.”
― On Suicide
― On Suicide
Barnett’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Barnett’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
20 books
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53 friends
366 books
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3 friends
74 books
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6 friends
264 books
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74 friends
1,338 books
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114 friends
277 books
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10 friends
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