You know you need to set boundaries, but how? Defining the "rules" of your relationships can liberate you from people-pleasing| Science of People
The difference between seriousness and sincerity is not how involved you are in the activities of your life, but in how tightly you grip. In fact, I would go even further still: gripping less tightly can actually unlock better performance and with much less effort. Simple activities, like playing catch, floating in a pool, or balancing on a beam, require the right amount of effort, but not more. Otherwise, you start to get in your own way.| outofcuriosity.substack.com
“Time moves faster as you get older.” It doesn’t, but your perception of time absolutely moves faster. Actually, it gets scary fast.There’s nothing worse than filling your time with pointless shit to feel busy and useful, only to realize you wasted your time (and probably other people’s time as well.)| outofcuriosity.substack.com
In our anxious quest to redesign our systems to make them more humane and more accountable, we can’t either focus solely on rest or treat a life that’s dominated by career ambition as complete. We have to recognize and celebrate the basic joys of feeling driven — waking up in the morning with a hunger for life itself, wanting to pack each precious day with all of the passions and the people we love the most.| outofcuriosity.substack.com