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The idea that a couple’s love burns hotter when their families disapprove has been repeated for fifty years, but when researchers actually followed couples, the disapproval didn’t fuel the romance, it more often predicted the slow thinning of it
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  • Inner Life

The move to a sunnier city, the bigger salary, the thing we’re sure will finally make us happy usually does far less than we imagine — researchers found that whatever we focus on looms huge while we’re picturing it, then shrinks back to almost nothing inside an ordinary Tuesday
  • Inner Life

The most generous act in a long marriage isn’t the grand gesture — it’s letting your partner tell the story slightly wrong at the table because you know which parts of it actually matter to them
  • Ancient Wisdom

What you keep telling yourself may quietly become the way your body learns to feel
  • Inner Life

Every generation raises its children in reaction to the wound of the last, which means most of us are quietly solving our parents’ problem while handing our own children a brand-new one to spend their lives solving
  • Inner Life

People who fall in love later in life often love more carefully, not less — they already know exactly what they stand to lose, and they hold it like something borrowed
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Ancient Wisdom

  • Ancient Wisdom

Thought by Epictetus: “Men are disturbed not by things, but by the views which they take of things” — a sentence written nearly two thousand years ago that most people only discover they’ve been living in reverse
  • Ancient Wisdom

What you keep telling yourself may quietly become the way your body learns to feel
  • Ancient Wisdom, Inner Life

I’m finally reading Adam Phillips’ Missing Out. This quote, which is in the first few pages, hits hard because it names the strange intimacy we have with the lives we never lived: “We share our lives with the people we have failed to be.”
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Inner Life

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  • Inner Life

For decades psychologists measured the good life two ways, as happiness and as meaning, and then kept meeting people who wouldn’t trade their most disorienting years, the move that failed, the year everything changed — for all the calm in the world
  • Inner Life

For years people were told there’s a magic ratio of good feelings to bad, right around three to one, that separates the people who flourish from the ones who quietly languish, and then a physicist and two colleagues checked the equation behind it and found the famous number had been borrowed from a decades-old model of heat rising through a fluid
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  • Inner Life

The move to a sunnier city, the bigger salary, the thing we’re sure will finally make us happy usually does far less than we imagine — researchers found that whatever we focus on looms huge while we’re picturing it, then shrinks back to almost nothing inside an ordinary Tuesday
  • Inner Life

The most generous act in a long marriage isn’t the grand gesture — it’s letting your partner tell the story slightly wrong at the table because you know which parts of it actually matter to them
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  • Inner Life

We Thought We Were Free. Turns Out We’re Just Comfortable.
  • Inner Life

The unbearable weight of being understood by few people, including yourself
  • Inner Life

I mastered the 6 morning habits of highly successful people. They left me completely empty
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Relationships

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  • Relationships

The idea that your partner has one primary love language, and that learning to speak it is the secret to a happy relationship, is something most couples now take for granted; when researchers held it up to the evidence, they found people want all the ways of being loved at once, and that matching the quiz to your partner barely predicts how close the two of you actually feel
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  • Relationships

People who see their partner more kindly than the plain facts would justify usually aren’t fooling themselves — in the couples researchers followed for a year, the ones who saw each other most generously stayed together more often, fought less, and slowly grew into the person their partner already saw
  • Relationships

The idea that a couple’s love burns hotter when their families disapprove has been repeated for fifty years, but when researchers actually followed couples, the disapproval didn’t fuel the romance, it more often predicted the slow thinning of it
  • Relationships

Saying sorry in person can be uncomfortable, but at least both people are in the discomfort together — online, one person is typing alone, and the other is reading alone, and for some that asymmetry may be the hardest part of all
  • Inner Life, Relationships

We brace before admitting a mistake or asking for help, sure it will look like weakness, but the very thing we are dreading tends to read to other people as courage — and it is mostly ourselves we are judging so harshly
  • Relationships

The happiest people in long relationships often aren’t the ones who never stopped being in love — they’re the ones who learned how to fall back in, over and over, in smaller ways
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Green Horizons

  • Green Horizons, Places of Power

The air you breathe has likely passed through forests, oceans, animals, cities, fires, storms, and other people before reaching you, which means every breath is less private than it feels and more like borrowing from the whole planet
  • Green Horizons

The beauty industry still can’t define “clean” — and most of us have been trusting the label anyway
  • Green Horizons

Fashion that doesn’t cost the world: how to dress without the damage
  • Green Horizons

Living in dialogue with the natural world, not just passing through it
  • Green Horizons

What changes when you stop treating nature as scenery
  • Green Horizons

30 beluga whales face euthanasia after Canadian marine park shuts down—and time is running out
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Creative Practice

  • Creative Practice

Goal setting with Ikigai: a values worksheet for finding what matters
  • Creative Practice

First 90 days in a new job: a bullet journal layout and planning worksheet
  • Creative Practice

Project management in your bullet journal: a planning template for analogue tracking
  • Creative Practice

Rainbow planner ideas for your bullet journal: colour as a way of telling time
  • Creative Practice

49 Alice in Wonderland bullet journal spreads: pages that make room for something other than productivity
  • Creative Practice

Memory spreads for your bullet journal: the quiet practice of deciding what was worth keeping
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