π # 17 - Thinking Long Term / Influencers / Comfortable Lives
Hi friends, welcome to the latest edition of One Percent Wiser, a compendium of resources to help you live better.
This is the real secret of life β to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play. ~ Alan Watts
π How to Do Long Term
Morgan Housel | May 2021 | Optimal Thinking
The long term is especially hard to do in todays society, when we all have attention spans shorter than a goldfish, and are constantly faced with the paradox of choice. Even so, we all know that the benefits of sticking with something for the long term can be tremendous. Key quote: "Long term is harder than most people imagine, which is why itβs more lucrative than many people assume."
π± The Anxiety of Influencers
Barrett Swanson | September 2020 | Living Intentionally
I didn't expect to read an entire article about Tiktok influencers, much less include it in this newsletter. Yet I found this article engaging, hilarious and sad all at the same time. The description of kids partying in mansions whilst ash rains down from wildfires raging nearby is striking. Barrett has captured the zeitgeist in this piece.
π The Comfortable Life is Killing You
Erik Rittenberry | May 2019 | Finding Meaning
Modern society produces modern ills. People are more lonely, anxious and depressed than ever before, despite ever rising prosperity. That's half the point of this newsletter, to explore what is going wrong and how we can prosper rather than suffer. Too much comfort may be bad for us, like too much sugar. Taken to excess, even water can kill us. Maybe we need to turn down the comfort dial now and then.
Welcome to everyone who joined the newsletter this week. I hope that some of the ideas here resonated with you and help you live more intentionally.
Thanks for reading π
Jamie
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