Why You Should Stop Comparing Yourself To Others (And How To Do It) Back somewhere in the mid-2000′s, I was a bridesmaid in a friend’s wedding.
The dress that we collectively chose was rather nice– it was midnight blue and sleeveless and came with a rather lovely wrap. (This was long before I had embraced the beauty of sleevelessness, but I digress.) The bride had hired a makeup artist and hair stylist to work on all of the bridesmaids, and so with a combo of a really pretty dress and wonderful hair and makeup, I was feeling pretty good about myself. That is, until, I saw all the other bridesmaids (who were all much thinner than me), and I found myself pulled into the deep vortex of comparing myself to them.
Suddenly, I didn’t feel so good about how I looked. Maybe you’ve done this kind of thing before too, but I found myself trying to find items of comparison where I could win out. Which, as you can imagine, didn’t really help me feel better. Why Comparing Yourself To Others Is Always A Bad Idea, And Not For The Reasons You Think That’s it. 15 Things Kurt Vonnegut Said Better Than Anyone Else Ever Has Or Will.
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"I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.'"The actual advice here is technically a quote from Kurt Vonnegut's "good uncle" Alex, but Vonnegut was nice enough to pass it on at speeches and in A Man Without A Country. Though he was sometimes derided as too gloomy and cynical, Vonnegut's most resonant messages have always been hopeful in the face of almost-certain doom. And his best advice seems almost ridiculously simple: Give your own happiness a bit of brainspace. 2. 3. The Top 10 Psychology Studies of 2010.
The end of 2010 fast approaches, and I'm thrilled to have been asked by the editors of Psychology Today to write about the Top 10 psychology studies of the year. I've focused on studies that I personally feel stand out, not only as examples of great science, but even more importantly, as examples of how the science of psychology can improve our lives. Each study has a clear "take home" message, offering the reader an insight or a simple strategy they can use to reach their goals , strengthen their relationships, make better decisions, or become happier. If you extract the wisdom from these ten studies and apply them in your own life, 2011 just might be a very good year. 1) How to Break Bad Habits If you are trying to stop smoking , swearing, or chewing your nails, you have probably tried the strategy of distracting yourself - taking your mind off whatever it is you are trying not to do - to break the habit.
J. 2) How to Make Everything Seem Easier J. 15 Tips on How to Live Without Regrets. Post written by Sofo. 18 Rules of Living by the Dalai Lama. Meat. I’m honored that this often shows up on the internet.
Here’s the correct version, as published in Omni, 1990. "They're made out of meat. " "Meat? " "Meat. They're made out of meat. " "There's no doubt about it. "That's impossible. "They use the radio waves to talk, but the signals don't come from them. "So who made the machines? "They made the machines. Sixteen Things Calvin and Hobbes Said Better Than Anyone Else. To paraphrase E.B.
White, the perfect sentence is one from which nothing can be added or removed. Every word plays its part. The Egg. The Egg By: Andy Weir You were on your way home when you died.
It was a car accident. Nothing particularly remarkable, but fatal nonetheless. You left behind a wife and two children. And that’s when you met me. “What… what happened?” Existence. First published Wed Oct 10, 2012 Existence raises deep and important problems in metaphysics, philosophy of language, and philosophical logic.
Many of the issues can be organized around the following two questions: Is existence a property of individuals? And Assuming that existence is a property of individuals, are there individuals that lack it? What does it mean to ask if existence is a property? A full answer to this question requires a general theory of properties, which is well beyond the scope of this article. Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. A&[Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] Presocratic Philosophy.
The Origins of Western Thought Philosophical Thinking Philosophy as a discipline isn't easy to define precisely.
Issuing from a sense of wonderment about life and the world, it often involves a keen interest in major questions about ourselves, our experience, and our place in the universe as a whole. But philosophy is also reflectively concerned with the methods its practitioners employ in the effort to resolve such questions. Emerging as a central feature of Western culture, philosophy is a tradition of thinking and writing about particular issues in special ways. Thus, philosophy must be regarded both as content and as activity: It considers alternative views of what is real and the development of reasons for accepting them. Since our personal growth in these matters naturally retraces the process of cultural development, study of the history of philosophy in our culture provides an excellent introduction to the discipline as a whole. Greek Philosophy. Philosophy since the Enlightenment, by Roger Jones.