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Ask HN: How to stop being cynical all the time?

Maybe I'm just growing up, or building "character", but I realize I will always have to endure bullshit in life that I have no control over. In college, it's going through unhelpful TA's and price gouging by Pearson/Housing/etc. At work, it's maybe office politics or even in consulting it's unreasonable clients. A friend would tell me to "suck it up and drive on".

I'm slowly cutting out unessential social media. I only check the news twice a day. I've listened to "this is water" by David Foster Wallace. I've read the Cracked article on Six Harsh Truths. I do exercise/yoga and slowly am integrating ten minutes of mindfulness into my moring. I'm still crabby.

60 points awayay_temp 8 years ago 58 comments

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