Finding Satisfaction Praveen Chunduru
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- Society & Culture
One person's journal in attempting to answer the question - “What roads lead to lasting satisfaction?”
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#8 - Empathy is in the numerator
In an unequal world, where suffering can be dramatically reduced by coordinating / helping across boundaries, how can we enable sufficient empathy to spur action, at scale?
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#7 - Equalizing privilege
The problem at a societal level is that 'valuable skills' are fairly highly correlated with privilege.
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#6 - Lower the temperature
The crisis we face now - persistent, omnipresent, and yet invisible - triggers not our “A-Game”, but anxiety. “Lowering the temperature” for ourselves and loved ones, and acting out of thought and not emotion, therefore becomes our responsibility, not an ‘automatic’ defense mechanism.
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#4 - Two Minute Drill
It’s better to start with a 2 minute version of something rather than not start at all.
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#3 - Taking 5 minutes off
Most situations in life don’t need us to be smart, they need us to be calm and aware. And taking 5 minutes off can be the fastest way to the right answer.