Nitin Kumar on Instagram: "Most people are obsessed with one thing feeling good right now. Comfort. Ease. Pleasure. What they don’t realize is that chasing comfort comes with a cost. The more you avoid discomfort the smaller your life becomes. The problem is when feeling good becomes the goal, life slowly starts shrinking. You avoid discomfort. You avoid responsibility. You avoid effort. And over time that avoidance turns into regret. What begins as comfort ends as emptiness. Doing good is diffe

Dr. Arthur Brooks on Instagram: "Satisfaction works a lot like a fraction. You can try to increase the numerator by getting more, or you can shrink the denominator by wanting less. One of those approaches is far more durable. Our instincts push us to accumulate. More status, more possessions, more validation. That impulse was useful for survival, but it was never designed to make us happy. When we keep feeding it, satisfaction stays just out of reach. Traditions of religion and philosophy have b