Rick | Written Notes
Rick | Written Notes

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10 Top Lessons From the Book “Everything is F*cked”
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1. The Opposite Of Happiness Is Not Anger Or Sadness✅
The opposite of happiness is hopelessness. A place where the everything-is-fucked mindset is the default state.
When we lose hope, we submit to the world and become uninterested in anything.
2. Feeling Brain and Thinking Brain✅
Thinking Brain represents your conscious thoughts, ability to make logical decisions, and understanding of how things work.
Feeling Brain represents your emotions, impulses, intuition, your constant desire for more food and more fun.
3. Why Don’t We Do The Things We Know We Should Do?✅
In short, because we don’t feel like it.
You need to start suggesting new acts to your Feeling Brain that feel good and will eventually lead to a brighter future if you want to experience inner peace and joy.
4. There Is No Such Thing As Change Without Pain✅
There is no such thing as change without pain, no growth without discomfort.
It’s why it is impossible to become someone new without first grieving the loss of who you used to be.
5. The World Runs on One Thing: Feelings✅
Innovations (upgrade pain): In short, replace one pain with another much more tolerable pain.
Diversions (avoid pain): Instead of studying for your exam you watch Netflix. Instead of working out u eat a crunchy chocolate crispy meal.
6. Love People Without Expecting Anything in Return✅
To grow as an individual you must act unconditionally.
You must respect someone without expecting anything in return; otherwise you don’t truly respect him.
7. Don’t Hope for Better. Just Be Better✅
Be something better. Be more compassionate, more resilient, more humble, more disciplined.
We can simply be a better parent, a better partner, a better friend, a better citizen, day in, day out.
8. Focus on nontransactional things✅
The most important things in life are nontransactional. Or in other words, things you can’t buy with money.
What you need to focus on is emotional happiness: good relationships, meaningful work, healthy habits.
9. Embrace pain✅
Avoiding pain won’t let you grow up and will additionally make you fragile and incapable of handling what life throws at you.
Learn to adore pain because only pain will help you grow up and grow stronger.
10. Improve yourself to improve the world✅
The only logical way to improve the world is through improving ourselves, there is no other way.
It’s basically making good long-term decisions that have a healthy impact on others, daily.

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