Friday, September 25, 2026

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Via The Upworthiest \\ Happiness researcher explains how making a ‘reverse bucket list’ can change your life

 

 
Happiness researcher explains how making a ‘reverse bucket list’ can change your life

Happiness researcher explains how making a ‘reverse bucket list’ can change your life

Take life by the bucket.

By Annie Reneau

We live in a society that prizes ambition, celebrating goal-setting, and hustle culture as praiseworthy vehicles on the road to success. We also live in a society that associates successfully getting whatever our hearts desire with happiness. The formula we internalize from an early age is that desire + ambition + goal-setting + doing what it takes = a successful, happy life.

But as Harvard University happiness researcher Arthur C. Brooks has found, in his studies as well as his own experience, that happiness doesn’t follow that formula. “It took me too long to figure this one out,” Brooks told podcast host Tim Ferriss, explaining why he uses a “reverse bucket list” to live a happier life.

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Via Daily Dharma: Achieving Ease

 

 
Achieving Ease
We must learn the difference between the ease of getting our way and the ease that comes with wisdom.
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Tuere Sala, “Stop Fixing, Start Practicing”

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Thursday, September 24, 2026

The Dhamma of Dolly Parton

 

The Dhamma of Dolly Parton
By Ajahn Nisabho
 

A Theravada Buddhist monk comments on the “Queen of Country,” culture war pacifism, and the nondiscriminatory nature of refuge.


Via Daily Dharma: Our Existence

 

 
Our Existence
We don’t exist substantially or intrinsically or independently, but our existence, like the existence of everything else, is interdependent, conventional, constantly changing.
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Jay L. Garfield, “How to Live Without a Self (and Be a Better Person)”

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