I believe that money will solve all my problems. When I was 8 years old I told my mother I will be a millionaire some day, and I will show her Australia. I thought that getting rich might give me the freedom to do so. The older I get the more I find myself pursuing this goal of getting financially independent. I make myself believe that "when I only make more money" I can do things I would not be...
You usually can turn everything into an unpleasant and painful experience. And I tend to do that a lot. Technically, you could also go the other way around but people seem not to love this as much. Sometimes I make things harder for myself than they really are. But, what might seem hard or impossible to me might be easily manageable for others. “Difficult” is a very vague and stretchable term...
We have these powerful instincts we think we can trust in (and to some degree this is true), but these instincts have adapted over time and most of them are no longer useful in the modern world. We have evolved. Our environment we live is has changed dramatically too. The reason we become addicted to McDonald’s and all this crappy fast food, sugar, salt and fat stuff is because this behaviour was...