Ten Simple Steps to Happiness Without Money or Magic
Ten Steps Towards Happiness
I share ten practical steps to boost your happiness and that of others, requiring no money or magic, just a shift in perspective. From investing in your senses and learning new skills to removing toxic people and traveling light, these actions help you ground your emotions and revalue your time. By finishing projects and accepting everything without demand, you can find beauty in every moment and live a more fulfilling life.
When you want nothing, you cannot be disappointed. When you accept everything, you will see beauty in every moment.
- __rito__
> 4. Be part of bigger things
> Being part of bigger things makes us feel valued. Find communities and projects to be part of. Start your own. It could be online or in the real world.
Make sure the groups don't get politically active one way or the other. Today's social landscape is made significantly worse by political polarization dragged to the extreme - fuelled by short form content silos and bubbles. (Tiktok, Instagram, etc.)
Ban politics strictly in the spaces you create, and don't be part of the ones that lean one way or the other - unless you are actively looking to take part in politics.
This was not the case even ten years ago. But now, is.
- neuroticnews25
Admittedly I don't have much life wisdom, but my strong intuition is happiness is a measure, not a target, and you shouldn't optimize for it. All this "science of happiness" talk feels, I don't know, spiritually offputting.
- pdamoc
I cant' believe it's almost 10 years since he died. My favorite quote of his is "Who needs a bucket list when you have love?”
I wish more people would take his ideas seriously, especially his "Collective Code Construction Contract".
- virtualritz
The one thing I'd put in context is "don't waste time on commuting".
In Europe for sure and possibly many parts of Asia like Japan or bigger metropolises in China etc. most people will commute by public transport.
You can read. Whenever I had a job where I commuted at least an hour a day, the number of books I read, per month, went from 2–3 to 10 or more.
- circlefavshape
"explore the world without desire"
I don't know how I feel about this. I know when I can manage to accept things I feel better overall, but there is real joy in getting what you wanted - in doing something you enjoy, and realising that you're enjoying it while you're doing it, and rejoicing in that
Detachment is all very well, but attachment brings higher highs as well as lower lows
- two_handfuls
Came in not expecting much, but those are all good points, expressed concisely.
- Pieter_U_Da_Man
Shortly before he passed during his AMA he offered some advice I try to follow.
Me
This doesn't really relate to psychopaths but I just wanted to say I've been a follower of yours for years since I discovered your state machine language, multi-threaded kernel and web server back in the 90's. The AMQP / ZMQ work you've done is inspiring. How do you do it?
Pieterh
Well, thank you! :)
I don't know how my brain works, but it likes to take huge, complex situations, learn them inside and out, and then and find simple paths through them. I've always done this since I was young. In software, that means writing simple things that solve large problems, well. In writing, this means explaining mind-boggling things in simple words.
It does take time.
- MithrilTuxedo
I upped the font size on my Pixel recently and this is one of those sites where (in Firefox) the sidebar takes up more than 50% of the width of the screen and retains tiny text while the article itself wraps on a couple words per line.