We're never happy with what we have, we want what others have too;
Ryan Holiday - Ego is the Enemy
Prof. Laurie Santos teaches wildly popular course "The science of happiness" in Coursera!
one important concept that prof. Santos talks is - about absolute vs relative coordinates .
She states that reason for unhappiness stems relative comparison of our self with others!
Let me take my case -
the way my professional career started- To where I am today -
leading team;
On absolute coordinates, I should be very very happy today , given where I started. i should feel arrived.
but what is the reality ? i end up comparing myself to others-
one who runs faster than me and feeling unhappy !
Mukund! Don't - Feel arrived!
"The word "euthymia" is the one we should think more often:
sense of our own path and how to stay on it
without getting distracted by all others" Ryan Holiday
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Ryan Holiday
Mukund
1 comment:
As I grow older and realise the need to conserve my energy, I see that I relate to euthymia more and more. There is no way that I NOW have the energy to Melinda my own business and the business of of others;)!
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