How can we maintain contentment, calm, or inner peace, while still aiming high, pursuing good goals, and experiencing natural frustration and anger? And is contentment even a good goal when there’s so much injustice out in the world?
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Key Topics:
- 1:45: Why contentment matters.
- 4:30: Can we be content when things are hard?
- 6:00: Being skeptical of the “wanting mind.”
- 8:30: How can we return to contentment when moved from it?
- 12:10: What’s wrong with being driven? Does contentment make us lazy?
- 16:20: Self-actualization and taking action from a place of fullness.
- 19:00: Staying content while performing basic tasks.
- 21:50: Contentment vs. complacency.
- 25:20: Content while hurt or angry.
- 29:30: How to build contentment when times are tough.
- 35:00: Can we be content and afraid?
- 46:00: Recap of anger and contentment
