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Why should one stay hungry? What about conquering one's insatiability, and becoming content?
by nether 10y ago
Why should one stay hungry? What about conquering one's insatiability, and becoming content?
- golergka 10y agoThen you lose your drive to move forward. Then zen feeling of being content is not mush different from being dead.
- hornbaker 10y agoHappiness is wanting what you have, not having what you want.
- obstacle1 10y agoDelusion is asserting that you've found some objective measure of happiness that can be generalized to everyone.
- zpr 10y agoA pronounced theme in the article was disregarding this superficial drive to nowhere and instead focusing on philosophising on your own existence. I doubt many of us know what it's like to be dead but to think its Zen is actually a nice thought.
- enraged_camel 10y agoFalse dichotomy. Contentedness and happiness are very different things. The former comes from the inside. It is a sense of satisfaction and peace. The latter comes from the outside. It's a sense of elation and joy. The reason your post presents a false dichotomy is that it is possible to be both content and happy. In fact, people should strive for a balance of both. Being content should not get in the way of attaining happiness, or vice versa.
- PeterisP 10y agoWell, being content and happy with your current state is pretty much not compatible with high ambition and continually striving to achieve more, it's a tradeoff. As in the old quote - "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."