Because most of your life is the journey most of your life is a process of solving problems.

It is not and never will be the condition of basking in the absence of all problems. You will always have something to do.

So the frame of mind in which you do these things, will determine the quality of your life.

Above all, there’s one mistake you cannot afford to make:

You can’t wait until you solve your problems to be happy.

Sam Harris

Munger’s life was comforting. He was wealthy but lived simply. He stayed in the same house for seventy years, ate what he wanted, and didn’t worry about exercise. He had a big family and loved his work. He enjoyed reading and learning. He was clear and funny when he talked. He lived to 99, happy and healthy.

But Munger faced many challenges. He fought in a war, went through a divorce, lost his young son, and was broke before he turned 32. In his 50s, he had a painful surgery that made him lose an eye. He’s been a widower for 13 years.

Munger’s way of handling tough times is inspiring. When asked about his relationship with his wheelchair, he said,

“… whenever I feel sad about being in a wheelchair, I think well you know, Roosevelt ran the whole damn country for 12 years in a wheelchair. So I’m just trying to make this wheelchair thing last as long as Roosevelt did.”

Or when he was confronted with the possibility of going blind and no longer being able to read, he said,

“It’s time for me to learn braille!”

Munger’s long life came from his mindset. He grew stronger through hard times. His life shows that a content life was possible by managing our mindset.

Munger believed that life is about “doing what we are supposed to do,” which, in his view, meant behaving well. He elaborated:

“Life will have terrible blows, horrible blows, unfair blows, it doesn’t matter. Some people recover and others don’t. There I think the attitude of Epictetus is the best. He thought that every mischance in life was an opportunity to behave well. Every mischance in life was an opportunity to learn something and that your duty was not to be immersed in self-pity, but to utilize the terrible blow in a constructive fashion.

That is a very good idea.”

He also pointed out several obstacles that might get in the way of doing what we are supposed to do:

“Generally speaking, envy, resentment, revenge and self-pity are disastrous modes of thoughts. Self-pity gets fairly close to paranoia, and paranoia is one of the very hardest things to reverse. You do not want to drift into self-pity. Self-pity will not improve the situation …

You don’t have a lot of envy, you don’t have a lot of resentment, you don’t overspend your income, you stay cheerful in spite of your troubles. You deal with reliable people and you do what you’re supposed to do. And all these simple rules work so well to make your life better. And they’re so trite.

And staying cheerful … because it’s a wise thing to do. Is that so hard? And can you be cheerful when you’re absolutely mired in deep hatred and resentment? Of course you can’t. So why would you take it on?”

As I listened to his story through my EarPods, I felt an immense sense of calm, echoing the quaintness of the mall, my napping son, and the seemingly sudden arrival of nightfall.

「滿足感」基本上是大部份字典對fulfilment和satisfaction的翻譯。當然應用起來，會有分別。

I feel fulfilled跟I feel satisfied，感覺上總是有層次上的分別。

I feel satisfied會與背著Goyard tote去享受Five Guys Burger有著直接的關係。I feel fulfilled呢。。。有feel，亦略要一點兒自我麻（陶）醉。

我相信成功賣了一台手機給一個人，好satisfied。

我相信成功令到一個人願意投資幾千塊錢擁抱智能電話能到給他的承諾從而改變了他的生命，好fulfilled。

從生理上來看，滿足感，暫時根據科學家們的理解，看起來是一個來如風，然後去如風的生理狀況。激發滿足感的東西（荷爾蒙），暫時的理解，就等同大部份身體功能的運作，有需要，就有血/荷爾蒙/電/營養/「野」到 ，用完，就回到平衡，cruise control。

然後，轉下轉下滿足感的牛角尖經常會不期然地轉到快樂（happiness）的牛角尖。不過今日不談happiness，世界上有大把書本討論此話題，包括happiness之藝術、假設、優勢、百分之十和放送等等，投其所好。

回到fulfilment，我覺得Quest舊founder Tom Bilyeu的描述，最即食：

有滿足感的事情，是當你在經歷它的時候，它MD的“sucks”。

它Sucks，皆因它好L難。

它sucks皆因當其他人都在「玩」的時候，你在挨。

但你知道，你在挨所以sucks是因為你在練好L難的功。而你在練的這本功夫，不是為了你，而是為。。。（他）人（民）服務。

• 食菠蘿包，不難，也是為自己，爽。
• 不停地屈、昆麵粉連續7日食自己，又煩又難，就係為咗整一舊又硬和又所謂有咬口、老婆喜歡的sourdough loaf，所以滿足。

hmm。

換屎片又煩，又是一門傲視同群的武功（老公，你睇吓人地老公啊，換片幾掂！你呢，獲獲都話捉埋先！），又絕對唔可能有人會老實話佢真心愛換片，所以換片，應該是fulfilling的。#selftalk

Right?

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