Personal growth: Is the uneventful life a key to happiness? July 20, 2017
Posted by Dennis Mellersh in Concept of personal development.Tags: Eric Hoffer, happiness, life, personal development potential, personal improvement, self-actualization, self-improvement, writing
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In our quest for constant improvement through our personal development efforts, there may be a downside.
Could “more” actually equal “less?”
Would we be better off seeking fewer self-actualization stimuli?
The philosopher/longshoreman Eric Hoffer made the following observation in a moment of self-assessment in an entry in a diary he was keeping:
“Early this morning on my way to work I felt a burning pain in my arms. It seemed to me for a moment that had I been without this pain I would have been wholly happy. In a moment like this I realize how lucky we are when nothing at all – good or bad – happens to us.” (1)
(1) Eric Hoffer, Working and Thinking on the Waterfro0nt
— Dennis Mellersh
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