Quote of the week
“If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happer than other people, and that’s almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.”
– Charles de Secondat
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Ah, this links back to Scott’s review of The War of Art, where in the last section (p 147 onwards) the author discriminates between being hierarchical (more happy than X) and being territorial (art that is claimed by work gives sustenance)
If I am feeling run down I go to my territory, which for me is my keyboard, and there I feel empowered and “happy.” And there I don’t think of whether I am “happier than”
I am happy with your project postaday2011
Corollary :
We, PC guys :
“If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than Mac people, and that’s almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.”