Decoding The Secrets Of A Meaningful Life

Creativity Can't Be White Knuckled

• What does friendship mean for Jimmy Carr?
  • The person you have the least filter with.
• The magic you're looking for is in the work you're avoiding.
• The answer you're looking for is in the silence you're avoiding. You need fewer inputs, not more.
• Chris: The working definition of earnest is the bravery to take your emotions seriously.

If You Want An Interesting Life, Do This

• If you're going to have an interesting life, you can't have all of the other interesting life you would have had.
• What do you think I should do?
  • Ans: What do you think about all the time?

Shower Thoughts

1. One of the very few places where people don't have some external input going on.
2. You can tell what you care about by what you think about in the shower.

• How hard you work is important, but WHAT you work on is essential because you could work so hard on bullshit and distract yourself with it.

Finding your life's direction

• We can't control the world. We can have strong influence, but we can't control anything. Shit is gonna happen to you, and how you react to that is life.
• Chris: The more I think about what it is people want to take away from life, it's all just vibes, it all just comes back to vibes.
• Maya Angelou: People don't remember what you said, but they remember how you make them feel.
• What should I be doing in my life?
  • If your life were a movie, what would the key scenes be?
  • If your life were a movie, and people were watching up to this point, what would the audience be screaming at the screen, telling you to do with your life?

The Delayed Happiness Syndrome

• John Lennon: Life is what happened when we are making other plans.
• Depression is always about the past, and anxiety is about the future. The more you can just be in the moment, you're sort of all right, enjoying this bit of the process.
• Will Smith: I was poor and miserable, and it was ok because I think after getting some money, it'll be alright. And then I was rich and miserable, it was like FUCK, there's nothing else to do.

Taking Pleasure From The Ordinary

• There's kind of an embarrassment in the modern world at taking pleasure from ordinary pursuits, this sort of sense that the things that I feel particularly proud about and that I take a sense of self worth from and fulfillment, they should be grand because how feeble, shallow, unimpressive a life it is that lying in a hammock for a couple of hours can be one of the greatest sources of joy.
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  If you're not happy having a coffee with a friend, you won't be happy on a yacht. - Naval

• Perennial over thinkers will feel things more deeply than they should do, including the shame of feeling things more deeply than they should do.

The Relationship With Your Inner Critic

• Success derived from something that isn't authentic doesn't feel like success.