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The Age of Absurdity: Why Modern Life makes it Hard to be Happy by Michael Foley

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And happiness tends to be thought of as a permanent state, when it may be only occasionally achievable. The philosopher Hannah Arendt has argued that the human condition is a cycle of exhaustion and renewal, so that going up is possible ...more

Hannah Arendt definition of happiness.

Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?

by Michael J. Sandel

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“However, the serious seeker of detachment will have to embrace the Holy Trinity of Ss - Solitude, Stillness and Silence - and reject the new religion of Commotionism, which believes that the meaning of life is constant company, movement and noise.”
― Michael Foley

tags: commotion, detachment, solitude

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“Being constantly the hub of a network of potential interruptions provides the excitement and importance of crisis management. As well as the false sense of efficiency in multitasking, there is the false sense of urgency in multi-interrupt processing.”
― Michael Foley, The Age of Absurdity: Why Modern Life makes it Hard to be Happy

tags: interruptions, multi-tasking, work

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