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Happy Thursday folks!

Here is my favorite passage of the week, two quotes and book of the week with two important lessons to ponder on:

Passage of the Week:

Author, founder and CEO of the Power of Positivity Kristen Butler on the power of perseverance:

Two Quotes:

Book of the Week with 2 Important Lessons:

The book of the week is The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life by Mark Manson.

The book has sold more than 10 million copies.

It offers a refreshing, no-nonsense perspective on personal growth. Rather than promoting superficial positivity, it encourages us to confront uncomfortable truths, embrace failure, focus on what truly matters, and take meaningful steps toward a more fulfilling life. Mark makes the argument-backed by both academic research and well-timed poop jokes, that improving our lives hinges not on our ability to turn lemons into lemonade, but on learning to better stomach lemons.

Human beings are flawed and limited as he writes, “Not everybody can be extraordinary, there are winners and losers in society, and some of it is not fair or your fault.” He advises us to get to know our limitations and accept them. This, he says, is the real source of empowerment. Once we embrace our fears, faults, and uncertainties, start confronting painful truths, we can begin to find the courage and confidence we desperately seek. He brings a much-needed grab-you-by-the-shoulders moment of real-talk, filled with entertaining stories and profane, ruthless humor.

Here are two important lessons from the book:

1) Happiness comes from solving problems.

Problems are a constant in life. Happiness comes from solving problems. The keyword here is "solving." If you're avoiding your problems or feel like you don't have any problems, then you're going to make yourself miserable. If you feel like you have problems that you can't solve, you will likewise make yourself miserable. The secret sauce is in the solving of the problems, not in not having problems in the first place.

To be happy we need something to solve. Happiness is therefore a form of action; it's an activity, not something that is passively bestowed upon you, not something that you magically discover in a top-ten article on the Huffington Post or from any specific guru or teacher. It doesn't magically appear when you finally make enough money to add on that extra room to the house. You don't find it waiting for you in a place, an idea, a job or even a book, for that matter.

Happiness is a constant work-in-progress, because solving problems is a constant work-in-progress. The solutions to today's problems will lay the foundation for tomorrow's problems, and so on. True happiness occurs only when you find the problems you enjoy having and enjoy solving. Whatever your problems are, the concept is the same: solve problems; be happy.

2) Growth is an endlessly iterative process.

When we learn something new, we don't go from "wrong" to "right." Rather, we go from wrong to slightly less wrong. And when we learn something additional, we go from slightly less wrong to slightly less wrong than that, and then to even less wrong than that, and so on. We are always in the process of approaching truth and perfection without actually ever reaching truth or perfection. We shouldn't seek to find the ultimate "right" answer for ourselves, but rather, we should seek to chip away at the ways that we're wrong today so that we can be a little less wrong tomorrow. Growth is an endlessly iterative process.

When viewed from this perspective, personal growth can actually be quite scientific. Our values are our hypotheses: this behavior is good and important; that other behavior is not. Our actions are the experiments; the resulting emotions and thought patterns are our data.

Book I am currently reading:

Katabasis by R. F. Kuang. Dante’s Inferno meets Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi in this all-new dark academia fantasy from R. F. Kuang, in which two graduate students must put aside their rivalry and journey to Hell to save their professor’s soul, perhaps at the cost of their own.