#72: Living the Life You Believe
#EmotionalGrowth #JoyfulDiscipline #AuthenticLiving #CuriousLove
👋 Welcome to this week's Pursuit. My name is Amir, and each week I go over 10 hours of content in pursuit of living a meaningful and fulfilling life. I'm grateful to share my findings with you and hope I can make a small difference during your challenging times. If you're on a quest for depth in an era of superficial abundance, make sure to subscribe and join our journey.
This week’s discovery:
🧑🏼🏫 Why Our Unpleasant Emotions Are Our Best Teachers
💪🏼 Art of Enjoyable Discipline
🌟 Living the Life You Believe
🔭 When Curiosity Fades, So Does Love
🗒️ A Quote I'm Pondering On
🎵 Music I'm Listening To
🧑🏼🏫 Why Our Unpleasant Emotions Are Our Best Teachers
Unpleasant emotions shouldn't be judged negatively. Rather, they serve as teachable moments. Regret can be a seminar for making wiser decisions in the future. Guilt can act as a lesson on doing the right thing. Boredom can teach you about your intrinsic motivation and disappointment can be a tutorial on preparation or perseverance. Even anger can be a crash course on setting boundaries. This idea reframes emotions not as good or bad, but as signposts of our needs and values. When we approach these emotions with compassion and curiosity, we're gentler with ourselves and better able to understand what's truly important to us.
💪🏼 Art of Enjoyable Discipline
Excellence in any field isn’t about making grand sacrifices; it’s about finding joy in the mundane. Take swimmers, for instance. They relish the monotony of laps, finding it meditative and therapeutic. The assumption that self-improvement must be a grueling process is flawed. If it feels arduous, you're likely doing it wrong. Engaging in self-discipline is more about aligning with your inherent interests and less about forcing yourself into a mold. The real magic happens when you find a community that shares your interests. Conformity is easy when everyone around you is on the same page. Even solitary sports like swimming are often practiced in team setups, reinforcing the idea that camaraderie makes the process enjoyable and easier. So, if you're embarking on a new habit or a discipline, find a buddy. It just might be the key to making the process more enjoyable and sustainable.
You may not initially enjoy the discipline you're trying to incorporate into your life. However, as you give new habits more time, improve at them, and see the results, you'll likely begin to appreciate them.
🌟 Living the Life You Believe
The mysterious reward of the human experience is not just to get what we want but to find something worth wanting. Something worth negotiating with reality for. Joy arises from the challenge of exertion, the thorough search to find it. All the books I’ve read this year echo this sentiment: if you don’t live the way you believe, you inevitably believe the way you live. So that’s the goal. To live the life I believe in. To keep the faith in my small, precise, efforts, knowing everything adds up in teaspoons. The writing and the heartbreaks, the serendipity and the failures. Such is life. It’s elegant and ugly and hopeful. We don’t get a transcript from heaven telling us what is worth the hunt. The search goes on until you find ideas worth chasing. It’s a gift to be thrown into the game. The hidden beauty lies in figuring out how to play.
🔭 When Curiosity Fades, So Does Love
Krishnamurti once said that a mind that doesn’t ask questions is one that is dead. I find this also applies to relationships as well. If you’re no longer curious to know about the person in front of you – be it your childhood friend or your father – then that relationship is devoid of life. You can say that you love someone, but if you no longer seek to inquire about that person’s heart and mind, then that love will fade into complacency and then into nothingness.
🗒️ A Quote I'm Pondering On
No one has all the answers at the beginning. Trust yourself and take the first step.
🎵 Music I'm Listening To
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🌒 Pano: Danceable and electronic obscure songs
🌓 Sisy: Ethnotronica and organic house
🌑 Berghain: Dark, minimal techno and tech house
🌕 Heide: Groovy soul and disco house
🌞 Sonntag: Afterhours shit
🌎 World: From Latin jazz to Turkish psych
🌚 Super Slow: For your intimate moments
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I really like all the sections and quotes in this Pursuit edition. Well done!
amazing read! "When Curiosity Fades, So Does Love" -- couldn't agree more!