Topics: Peace & Spirituality Self-discovery
Some people grow potato and stay happy. They are reaching their highest potential — they Live in agreement with nature.
Yet some have to build farms. And some have to change the world, that is, Become extraordinary to create happiness. But that last type often gets distracted with the hallucinations of material reality. They forget Death is your best friend, and waste time on an AI B2B SaaS startup.
Simple life creates a baseline amount of sufficiency, independence, and leisure. And those create freedom because Resilience + Sufficiency = Freedom. You don’t rely on anyone else for your basic needs, and you don’t need much.
The key is that with that freedom comes the option to use your time for learning and growth. This is why a simple life is a base case. Everyone is default happy; but some of us take it to N+1.