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Adam Sternbergh Quotes

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“Our minds, it turns out, are very good at persuading us to follow intuitions about happiness that turn out to be entirely wrong.”
— Adam Sternbergh, Here’s Your Cheat Sheet to Happiness
Tagged: How To Think, Happiness, Mind, delusions, Illusions, ideas about happiness
“The takeaway is simply this: We are inclined to assume that circumstances play the biggest role in our happiness, when research suggests they play the smallest role.”
— Adam Sternbergh, Here’s Your Cheat Sheet to Happiness
Tagged: How To, Happiness, How To Be Happy, Circumstances, Mindset
“So here’s a suggestion as to how you can spend the next National Middle Child Day: contemplating the extinction of the middle child. Because, like the mountain gorilla and the hawksbill turtle, the American Middle Child is now an endangered species. As the ideal number of children per family has shrunk to two — that’s not me speaking, it’s demographics — the middle child, in a very real sense, is disappearing.”
— Adam Sternbergh, Middle Children Are Going Extinct, Just When We Could Use Them the Most
Tagged: Family
“What makes for a perfect 'subway read'? Unlike the beach read, it cannot feel meandering. Like a train, the narrative must move with as few delays as possible, and also be transportive. When I’m packed into a musty, fluorescently lit rail car during rush hour, I want to be anywhere else, and fast. The beach and the cabin are inherently relaxing, calming and rejuvenating environments. Needless to say, the subway is none of those.”
— Adam Sternbergh, Transportive Reading for Underground Transportation
Tagged: Writers Reading
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