Yep.........................

 I just think it’s important to recognize that outward measures of success don’t automatically translate into inward feelings of happiness.

Life is often more complicated than it seems.

-Ben Carlson, from here 

A lesson in enantiodromia*.........................

 That’s a big, broad takeaway of Covid that repeats itself throughout history: Nothing too good or too bad stays that way forever, because great times plant the seeds of their own destruction through complacency and leverage, and bad times plant the seeds of their own turnaround through opportunity and panic-driven problem-solving. The same story, again and again.

-Morgan Housel, from this blog post

*A theory from Carl Jung that an excess of something gives rise to its opposite.

Choices..........................

2.   The film describes the hardship that the Beatles endured in Hamburg, where they lived in slum conditions and played exhausting marathon sets. A fellow musician said that with the long sets and tough audiences, “Either you got good or you gave up.” Taking that to heart, I often worked late into the night, even though the traffic to my site was on the order of 100 visitors a week when I got started.

-Arnold Kling, as copied and pasted from here

The raison d'être for this blog...............

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