Tag: Psychology

Copywriting, Learnings

Who cares what your company desires?

Chris Labs

I am worried about my own problems. The bank is foreclosing the mortgage on my house, the bugs are destroying the hollyhocks, the stock market tumbled yesterday. I missed the eight-fifteen this morning, I wasn’t invited to the Jones’s dance last night, the doctor tells me I have high blood pressure and neuritis and dandruff. And then what happens? I come to the office this morning worried, open my mail and here is some little whippersnapper off in New York yapping about what his company wants. Bah! If he only realized what sort of impression his letter makes, he would … Continue reading Who cares what your company desires?

Happiness

Peace occurs when you don’t turn your observations into problems.

Chris Labs

The first step in any behavior is observation. You notice a cue, a bit of information, an event. If you do not desire to act on what you observe, then you are at peace. Craving is about wanting to fix everything. Observation without craving is the realization that you do not need to fix anything. Your mind does not generate a problem for you to solve. You’re simply observing and existing. -Atomic Habits, p.260 Continue reading Peace occurs when you don’t turn your observations into problems.

Happiness

Happiness is simply the absence of desire

Chris Labs

When you observe a cue, but do not desire to change your state, you are content with the current situation. Happiness is not about the achievement of pleasure (which is joy or satisfaction), but about the lack of desire. It arrives when you have no urge to feel differently. Happiness is the state you enter when you no longer want to change your state. -Atomic Habits, p.259 Continue reading Happiness is simply the absence of desire

Habits

You know that flow state, when you feel like you’re “in the zone”

Chris Labs

When you are fully immersed in an activity. Scientist have tried to quantify this feeling. They found that to achieve a state of flow, a task must be roughly 4 percent beyond your current ability. In real life it’s typically not feasible to quantify the difficulty of an action in this way, but the core idea of the Goldilocks Rule remains: working on challenges of just manageable difficulty – something on the perimeter of your ability – seems crucial for maintaining motivation. -Atomic Habits, p.233 Continue reading You know that flow state, when you feel like you’re “in the zone”