Untitled #341

a weblog by Sirio Magnabosco

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To overcome the anxieties and depressions of contemporary life, individuals must become independent of the social environment to the degree that they no longer respond exclusively in terms of its rewards and punishments. To achieve such an autonomy, a person has to learn to provide rewards to herself.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, via

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Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
John Wooden

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Alain de Botton on Distraction

“The need to diet, which we know so well in relation to food, and which runs so contrary to our natural impulse, is something we now have to relearn in relation to knowledge, people and ideas.”

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WWOZ

If you like Jazz and Blues (and you should!) WWOZ from New Orleans is the best out there.