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• ...It's more important than ever that we find new ways to cultivate curiosity - because our careers, our happiness, and our children's…
• Confronting the worst-case scenario saps it of much of its anxiety-inducing power. Happiness reached via positive thinking can be fleeting and brittle,…
• Who says you need to wait until you 'feel like' doing something in order to start doing it? The problem, from this…
• True security lies in the unrestrained embrace of insecurity - in the recognition that we never really stand on solid ground, and…
• The effort to feel happy is often precisely the thing that makes us miserable. And that it is out constant efforts to…
• Ask yourself whether you are happy', observed the philosopher John Stuart Mill, 'and you cease to be so.' At best, it would…
• Reassurance can actually exacerbate anxiety: when you reassure your friend that the worst-case scenario he fears probably won't occur, you inadvertently reinforce…
• The routines of almost all famous writers, from Charles Darwin to John Grisham, similarly emphasise specific starting times, or number of hours…
• Uncertainty is where things happen. It is where the opportunities - for success, for happiness, for really living - are waiting.
• The effort to try to feel happy is often precisely the thing that makes us miserable,
• It is illuminating to note, here, how the daily rituals and working routines of prolific authors and artists - people who really…

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