Oct 16, 2025
Fulfillment comes from achieving what YOU want - other opinions be damned. Any one else’s definition of your success, even if they think you are the cat’s pajamas, is irrelevant.
https://danstocke.substack.com/p/run-your-own-race
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Fulfillment comes from achieving what YOU want - other opinions be damned. Any one else’s definition of your success, even if they think you are the cat’s pajamas, is irrelevant.
https://danstocke.substack.com/p/run-your-own-race
You have everything you need to be everything you need.
You are uniquely you. Regardless of your strengths and weaknesses, you need make no apologies, concessions, or compromises for any of it. Don't let anyone push you off your mark. If anyone tries, give ‘em the ol’ Popeye with a heartfelt, “I yam what I yam!”
Every time I walk into the living area from the hallway I say, “Hi, Francis!” This is the reason why.
https://danstocke.substack.com/p/a-bronze-bird-and-a-burst-of-bliss
Curiosity and the motivation behind that curiosity are positively correlated. So too are the amount of happiness and the amount of truth found in the answers curiosity reveals. Happiness positively correlates with truth.
https://danstocke.substack.com/p/in-truth-there-is-joy
I am totally cool with making a handshake deal, as long as that handshake is followed up with a contract that details everything we just shook on because (and this is important) contracts only exist for when things turn to shit.
https://danstocke.substack.com/p/handshake-deals-are-great
In the interest of adding to humankind’s struggle with defining happiness, I have decided to pile on with The Unified Theory Of Happiness: “Gephyric Happiness” fills the gap between short term all-about-yourself style happiness and the long term always-for-others kind.
https://danstocke.substack.com/p/the-unified-theory-of-happiness
It would seem that kindness and benefit of the doubt would provide a stronger evolutionary advantage over knee jerk reactions to perceived threats.
https://danstocke.substack.com/p/how-about-kindness-and-curiosity
Happiness may not be as trivial as one might think. Vive Le Bonheur!
https://danstocke.substack.com/p/i-am-not-delusional-i-swear