#backwardsthinking

Wanting positive experience is a negative experience; accepting negative experience is a positive experience. It’s what the philosopher Alan Watts used to refer to as “the backwards law”— the idea that the more you pursue feeling better all the time, the less satisfied you become, as pursuing something only reinforces the fact that you lack it in the first place. - The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck

"One of the mistakes that writers make is spending a lot of time thinking how to start their stories and not a lot of time thinking about how to end them. Knowing my ending makes the beginning super easy. It's totally clear what I have to do and totally clear what I shouldn't do." - Malcolm Gladwell on writing, and it works for planning

A tumblr image post wasn't loading so I decided to just repost it because I liked the tags, then look at what I reposted later and it was actually alright and it wasn't even about dogs