Parenting
fromPsychology Today
2 days agoWhat Makes a Child Feel Like They Matter?
Children feel they matter and develop purpose through clear, direct parental attention and support, especially in the first three years of life.
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from24/7 Wall St.
2 weeks agoAirbnb CEO Brian Chesky: Hitting a $100 Billion Valuation 'Became the Saddest Day of My Life'
We go public, we have a $100 billion valuation. It's like one of the best days of my life. And the next day I wake up, I put on sweatpants, I go on a Zoom meeting. It was like it never happened. And it became the saddest day of my life because I realized, okay, what now? I got all this adulation and I don't feel any different.
Retirement
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Mindfulness
fromSilicon Canals
1 month agoPsychology says the happiest people aren't the ones who found their passion - they're the ones who stopped treating their life as a problem that needed solving - Silicon Canals
The relentless pursuit of passion may lead to unhappiness, while embracing diverse interests can foster a richer, more fulfilling life.
Mindfulness
fromSilicon Canals
1 month agoPsychology says the happiest people aren't the ones who found their passion - they're the ones who stopped treating their life as a problem that needed solving - Silicon Canals
The relentless pursuit of passion may lead to unhappiness, while embracing diverse interests can foster a richer, more fulfilling life.
Careers
fromSilicon Canals
2 months agoI retired last June after forty-three years in the same building and the relief lasted exactly six weeks before I realized I had built my entire identity around a job that replaced me in eleven days - Silicon Canals
Retirement after 43 years of work triggers an identity crisis when professional identity becomes inseparable from personal identity.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
2 months agoThere's a version of loneliness in your 40s that has nothing to do with being alone. It's looking at the life you built exactly the way you planned and realizing you forgot to include yourself in it. - Silicon Canals
Existential loneliness in midlife stems from disconnection from personal meaning, occurring when life structures built on external expectations no longer align with authentic desires.
Retirement
fromSilicon Canals
2 months agoI have everything I was promised would make me happy - the mortgage is gone, the kids are thriving, the marriage is solid, the account is full - and the emptiness I feel sitting inside all of it is the loneliest kind because you can't explain a void that has no right to exist - Silicon Canals
Achieving all conventional life goals—career success, paid-off mortgage, strong family, full retirement account—can leave a person feeling empty and purposeless without understanding what comes after achievement.
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