10 Ways To Make Life More Complicated Than It Needs To Be
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1. obsess over your appearance
2. obsess over what people think of you
3. obsess over your past
4. obsess over your future
5. obsess over someone
6. obsess over your self-worth
7. obsess over your many options
8. obsess over people you don't like
9. obsess over rewards without embracing the now
10. obsess about yourself in general
On Dan Harris' Ten Percent Happier podcast, there was a Buddhist nun who said that all suffering comes from thinking about yourself too much, or something like that. I can't remember the exact quote. I may have shared it on NotePD before. Anyway, it has stuck with me ever since. I then also heard Jordan Peterson say something similar.
What if, for every worry and obsession you had, you replaced it with something that required focusing on others?
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