happiness
Charlie Munger explains how discipline creates happiness
Charlie Munger, the late vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, spent decades making an argument that most people find counterintuitive. Traits they view as restrictive, such as discipline, delayed gratification, and strict logical limits on their own behavior, are the surest paths to a peaceful life. Not a perfect life. A peaceful place. Most people pursue […]
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Don’t look for happiness: how to become antifragile thanks to stoicism
The incessant search for happiness has become one of the most accepted lies of modern life. Self-help gurus promise it, consumer culture sells it, and millions of people exhaust themselves chasing an emotional state that disappears as soon as circumstances change. The Stoics understood what we are only beginning to rediscover: happiness is not something […]
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