The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder
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Arianna Huffington
Notes
Have you noticed that when we die, our eulogies celebrate our lives very differently from the way society defines success?
What was the very best moment of your day?
“What I love is that you’re literally facing your problem or situation together when you walk side by side with someone.”
Dogs are minor angels, and I don’t mean that facetiously. They love unconditionally, forgive immediately, are the truest of friends, willing to do anything that makes us happy…The pleasure (dogs) take in giving themselves to us is perhaps their greatest lesson.
“Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.“
Carrie Fisher
Fully giving our attention to anything—or anyone—is precisely what is becoming more and more rare in our hyperconnected world.
Does the technology deepen the experience, or does it diminish it?
But too often the goals we seek—those that the conventional notions of success tell us we should be seeking—take us down dead ends, searching for the meaning of our lives in all the wrong places.
“Keeping your personal life together is not an optional indulgence but an absolute necessity when it comes to being of use to others in the world.”
“The great opportunity is where you are. Do not despise your own place and hour.”