In a physically healthy society, people love to train their body and push their limits.

In a mentally healthy society, people love to read books and solve difficult problems.

In a spiritually healthy society, people love to spend time with their family and support each other.
#orangebook #HealthSociety #PhysicalMental #PersonalGrowth

If nurturing good judgment was easy, everyone would be healthy, wealthy, talented, in loving relationships, and happy; but most people don’t know the habits they need, or where to invest their time, their energy, their money, or which people are worth keeping in their lives.

When you are not satisfied with your current life, there is no one or nothing to blame, only your own judgment to improve, and that won’t happen with more overthinking, only with more courage to put yourself out there in scary situations, get ready to be painfully wrong many times, and relearn how to think better: with less entitlement, less arrogance, less ego.
#orangebook #GoodJudgment #SelfImprovement #LifeHabits

Making fun and laughing at what you don’t understand is one of the most common forms of self-protection.
#orangebook #SelfProtection #Understanding #Humor

Most people just don’t want to believe that what they don’t have exist:

- happily married couples who enjoy growing old together without falling out of love

- people with kids and enough free time to stay the healthiest version of themselves

- cities where people have common sense, and hence, where the streets are safe and clean, and the public infrastructure works

- people who made a lot of money doing what they loved without thinking much about the money

- people with great relationships with their parents, siblings, family

- smarter people who are also more athletic, good-looking, loved, sociable

- lifelong friendships with loyal people who genuinely care to stay in touch throughout the decades

- people who grew up with much worse circumstances, who were not initially more talented, and who succeeded beyond expectations mostly thanks to strict self-discipline, long-term planning, and unwavering self-belief
#orangebook #AspirationalGoals #LifeSuccess #PositiveOutlook

Most people need more faith than intelligence, that’s why you see so many “smart” people ending up alone, achieving far less than everyone else around them thought they would: they were always too afraid to commit to anyone, and they never truly believed in anything either.
#orangebook #Faith #Intelligence #Relationships

People waste so much time chasing the wrong people. When you meet someone who is meant to stay in your life, you know it. You neither judge them nor feel judged by them. There is no taboo but you respect each other’s boundaries. The conversations feel effortlessly stimulating.
#orangebook #Relationships #Connection #Respect

It’s not anxiety, it’s opportunities that you have yet to convert into actions.
#orangebook #Anxiety #Opportunities #Action

People move to big cities for financial opportunities and serendipitous encounters, but it’s clear when you finally get to spend a lot of time in nature that your mind was overstimulated by unnecessary noise and disconnected from what you actually needed to feel mentally clear.
#orangebook #BigCities #Nature #MentalClarity

Stay mindful, don’t play games that transform you into someone you don’t want to be, so many people wake up one day realizing that they got the money, the status, the connections, but never got the freedom, the confidence, the meaningful relationships.
#orangebook #Mindfulness #Self_awareness #Values

It’s easy to test your mental strength and ability to unlearn and relearn who you are: as an adult, go live abroad in a country where you initially don’t speak the language, don’t understand the culture, don’t know anybody, don’t have any resource; give yourself five years, and see the life you’ve built for yourself.
#orangebook

No one has stronger opinions than someone who knows a little bit about something, that’s why tourists always have ideas to “fix” the countries they visit, that’s why amateurs love to criticize professionals, that’s why young people love to judge older people: the more you know, the more humble and nuanced you actually become.
#orangebook

There are a lot of relatively smart people who are doing very well professionally because they are planning and executing their vision with discipline and diligence; but somehow, the same people struggle to make genuine friends, feel deeply connected to their family, or be a good parent to their kids, precisely because they think that other people are something they should have under their control.
#orangebook