Shigehiro Oishi

How Curiosity, Exploration, and Experience Make a Fuller, Better Life

Life in Three Dimensions

Cassandra Tang

And the purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience. You can do that only if you have curiosity, an unquenchable spirit of adventure.

As Mark Rothko once said, “A painting is not about an experience. It is an experience.”

Traveling abroad as a tourist is also novel and interesting, but as a tourist you rarely have authentic interactions with locals. Living abroad is much more challenging and evokes a wider range of emotions.

It is not a big win that brings happiness. Rather, it’s the small things in life, like having a coffee with your best friend every day, that build long-term happiness. Happiness is the frequency, not the intensity,15 of positive events.

Bit dry with too many experiments and not enough stroytelling 

Life in Three Dimensions How Curiosity, Exploration, and Experience Make a Fuller, Better Life

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