This is a free long-form blog post discussing the topic of happiness, sharing philosophies I believe could improve your happiness, and how I currently view the best way to live my own happy life. I delve into a minimalist mindset, deconstruct why I don’t believe the ‘standard life path’ is necessarily right for me, and quote a lot of authors and people smarter than me along the way.
Wow man! I've never seen so much value in a free post. The amount of knowledge you put into this is unbelievable. I especially like the point about values and goals. My philosophy is that we are happy when we have goals that take a certain level of effort to achieve and we make progress toward them. Earned a sub.
Wow, thank you very much for your kind words. It's all just personal reflection and contemplation which led to this piece. Happiness shouldn't be locked behind a paywall! That is absolutely right: life feels good when we have a clearly defined goal and move towards it. The Stoic philosopher Seneca illuded to this himself:
“Happiness is having a clear sense of the path that you are on, not being distracted by the paths that crisscross yours. Especially the footprints of those that are hopelessly lost.”
Wow man! I've never seen so much value in a free post. The amount of knowledge you put into this is unbelievable. I especially like the point about values and goals. My philosophy is that we are happy when we have goals that take a certain level of effort to achieve and we make progress toward them. Earned a sub.
Wow, thank you very much for your kind words. It's all just personal reflection and contemplation which led to this piece. Happiness shouldn't be locked behind a paywall! That is absolutely right: life feels good when we have a clearly defined goal and move towards it. The Stoic philosopher Seneca illuded to this himself:
“Happiness is having a clear sense of the path that you are on, not being distracted by the paths that crisscross yours. Especially the footprints of those that are hopelessly lost.”
Hope you can keep up with your life improvement!
No problem Nate! That's a great quote from Seneca right there. Keep up the great content I wish you the best!