Happiness is the way you feel empathy
Happiness is not a goal but an activity. Immanuel Kant said: Morality is not the teaching of how to be happy but how to behave in a way worthy of happiness.
You can only change your next action
Many things go wrong in our daily lives. But we cannot change the world around us. You can only change your next action. You can always change your next action.
The purpose of life is not happiness
The purpose of life is happiness. Is it true? Emerson says the purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, and to be compassionate.
I am a reed.
Pascal says it only takes a drop of water to crush a reed. Man is noble because he knows his own weakness. The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.
Natural Resource Analogy – Your Inner Speech
Your speech is the essential resource that creates the workings of the human mind. And in particular, your inner speech. Vocalize and harness your inner speech.
(3) Inner Speech is Key to Learning
Inner speech is the key to learning as it involves working memory and essential language functions such as reading, writing, speaking and listening.
(1) Inner Speech Shapes Thoughts
We process more than 300 million lines in life. We communicate with the self in our inner speech. One-fourth to one-third of all thoughts is inner speech.
Empathy matters most
Surprisingly, Confucius singles out the most essential of all. Compassion. Empathy, before knowledge, matters most. Be the other person. Be with yourself, too.
Learning Formula (1) Iteration
Here’s the formula for any learning. (A) Connection to yourself x (B) Iteration x (C) Continuation. How connected, how iterative matters most.
The mind is an activity, not a repository.
This summer, the trees of the northeastern US were covered with billions of 17-year cycle cicadas. Imagine! The mind is an activity, not a repository.