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Embrace Uncertainty

You’re wrong — and that’s okay. Personal growth is admitting you don’t know it all. Truth evolves.

"The desire for more positive experience is itself a negative experience."

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His style is really direct — kind of like a friend shaking your shoulders and saying, “Get real with yourself.” His work focuses a lot on accepting limitations, handling pain, finding meaning, and letting go of unrealistic expectations.

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Mark Manson

"“The desire for a more positive experience is itself a negative experience. And, paradoxically, the acceptance of one’s negative experience is itself a positive experience.”"

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Desire for positivity

  • The desire for more positive experience is a negative experience and the acceptance of negative experience is itself a positive experience. 
  • 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...

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  1. 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. 
  2. When you care less about something, you do better at it. 
  3. Avoidance of the suffering is a form of sufferin...

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