Wellbeing

I did sacrifice everything else. In my mind, it's part of the price you pay. They say some people find their self-esteem in different places. I found my self-esteem in work.

Resilience is not how you endure, it's how you recharge.

It doesn't ask, was today good? It asks, what was good in today?

You need to be able to hold two truths at the same time. Yes, this is difficult, and there's something we can do here. Yes, I don't know how the story ends, and I believe that my behaviour matters in this moment.

Toxic positivity aims to edit out the problem.

It is a feeling of intense loneliness, isolation and helplessness that can only be resolved by negative habits which you believe will take away the pain, but which don't.

Not only are incomes being lost — a sense of community, a sense of pride, a sense of belonging has also been lost. Those things clearly matter for human wellbeing. We’re just not very good at measuring them.

Economic growth is a means. The goal must be something else. It must be shared prosperity. It must be happier lives. It must be communities in which we all feel that we belong. It must be mutual respect. Those are ends.