While explaining to Eduard some parts that I had read in the books ‘Atomic Habits’ and ‘The Almanack of Naval Ravikant’ I couldn’t explain three words.
So just for the case, here they are – for my future self and for you, just in case:
1. Word “devour” –> The best book is the one you devour.
eat (food or prey) hungrily or quickly. // read quickly and eagerly.
“she spent her evenings devouring the classics”
2. Word “aversion” –> That struggle or aversion is responsible for most of our misery.
a strong dislike or disinclination.
3. Word “Hedonic Adaption“
The notion* after a positive or negative event.
Notion = a conception of or belief about something.
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