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Friday. February 10, 2023 - 184 mins

Who will Cry When You Die Robin Sharma (Phani)
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One of the lessons I have learned in my own life is that if you don’t act on life, life has a habit of acting on you. The days slip into weeks, the weeks slip into months and the months slip into years. Pretty soon it’s all over and you are left with nothing more than a heart filled with regret over a life half lived.

Who will Cry When You Die Robin Sharma (Phani)
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Finding your calling doesn’t mean you must leave the job you now have. It simply means you need to bring more of yourself into your work and focus on the things you do best. It means you have to stop waiting for other people to make the changes you desire and, as Mahatma Gandhi noted: “Be the change that you wish to see most in your world.” And once you do, your life will change.

Who will Cry When You Die Robin Sharma (Phani)
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The golden thread of a highly successful and meaningful life is self – discipline. Discipline allows you to do all those things you know in your heart you should do but never feel like doing.

Who will Cry When You Die Robin Sharma (Phani)
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when you consistently flex your willpower by making those choices that you know are the right ones (rather than the easy ones), you take back control of your life.

Who will Cry When You Die Robin Sharma (Phani)
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“Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.”

Who will Cry When You Die Robin Sharma (Phani)
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Remember, happy people have often experienced as much adversity as those who are unhappy. What sets them apart is that they have the good sense to manage their memories in a way that enriches their lives.

Who will Cry When You Die Robin Sharma (Phani)
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Those who take more chances and dare to be more and do more than others will naturally experience more failures.

Who will Cry When You Die Robin Sharma (Phani)
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The act of caring for my physical temple reminds me that life’s greatest pleasures are often life’s simplest ones.

Who will Cry When You Die Robin Sharma (Phani)
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Experiencing solitude, for even a few minutes a day, will keep you centered on your highest life priorities and help you avoid the neglect that pervades the lives of so many of us.

Who will Cry When You Die Robin Sharma (Phani)
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To live your life to the fullest, start taking more risks and doing the things you fear. Get good at being uncomfortable and stop walking the path of least resistance. Sure, there is a greater chance you will stub your toes when you walk the road less traveled, but that is the only way you can get anywhere.

Who will Cry When You Die Robin Sharma (Phani)
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The real secret to getting control of your life is to restore a sense of focus in your days. The real secret to getting things done is knowing what things need to be left undone. Once you start spending the hours of your days only on those high – leverage activities and priorities that will advance your life’s mission and legacy, everything will change.

Who will Cry When You Die Robin Sharma (Phani)
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How high you will rise in your life will be determined not by how hard you work but by how well you think.

Who will Cry When You Die Robin Sharma (Phani)
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And the person you will be five years from now will come down to two primary influences: the people you associate with and the books you read.

Who will Cry When You Die Robin Sharma (Phani)
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To let go of the mental clutter that your problems tend to generate, list all your worries on a piece of paper. If you do so, they will no longer be able to fester in your mind and drain your valuable energy. This simple exercise will also permit you to put your problems into perspective and tackle them in an orderly, well – planned sequence

Who will Cry When You Die Robin Sharma (Phani)
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You will never be able to eliminate a weakness you don’t even know about. The first step to eliminate a negative habit is to become aware of it. Once you develop an awareness about the behavior you are trying to change, you will be well on your way to replacing it with one that is more helpful.

Who will Cry When You Die Robin Sharma (Phani)
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By developing present moment awareness and an abundance of mental focus, you will not only feel much calmer in your life, you will also unlock the fullness of your mind’s potential.

Who will Cry When You Die Robin Sharma (Phani)
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One of the best ways to cure your monkey mind is through a technique I call “Focused Reading.” Every time your mind wanders from the page into a daydream or a worry, make a check mark in the right hand margin of the page. This simple act will increase your awareness of how poorly you concentrate and, since awareness is the first step to change, help you to build the skills you need for a clearer, quieter mind.

Who will Cry When You Die Robin Sharma (Phani)
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The more you ask, the more you get, but it takes practice to get good at it.

Who will Cry When You Die Robin Sharma (Phani)
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The foods you consume affects your moods as well as the clarity of your thinking. This is why the ancient sages ate only light foods. They knew that anything more would disturb the perfectly peaceful minds they had worked so hard to cultivate and disrupt their meditations on the true meaning of life.

Who will Cry When You Die Robin Sharma (Phani)
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Take a good, hard look at your environment. Your thoughts are shaped by the people you associate with, by the books you read, by the words you speak and by your daily physical surroundings.

Who will Cry When You Die Robin Sharma (Phani)
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Without a discipline mind, trivial thoughts and worries will nag at you and you will never have the capacity to immerse yourself in more meaningful pursuits. Without deep concentration, your mind will be your master rather than your servant.

Who will Cry When You Die Robin Sharma (Phani)
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“Take the course opposite to custom, you will almost always do well.” The brilliant ads for Apple computers inspire us to “Think Different.” Or as I tell audience at my leadership speeches, “If you follow the crowd, the place you will most likely end up at is the exit.”

Who will Cry When You Die Robin Sharma (Phani)
Location 988-990 | Added on Monday, December 19, 2022 1:00:36 PM

I would rather spend my days doing things that will leave me happy memories than collecting possessions. I have discovered that my best memories come from life’s simplest things.

Who will Cry When You Die Robin Sharma (Phani)
Location 987-990 | Added on Monday, December 19, 2022 1:00:50 PM

At the end of the day, the only thing we can take with us are our memories of all those great life experience that add meaning to our lives. Given this, I would rather spend my days doing things that will leave me happy memories than collecting possessions. I have discovered that my best memories come from life’s simplest things.

Who will Cry When You Die Robin Sharma (Phani)
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To form your own mastermind alliance, find three or four people you feel you could learn from and who would get along well with the others of the group. The alliance is all about mutual benefit so you must be able to give as much as you expect to receive.

Who will Cry When You Die Robin Sharma (Phani)
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arm stretches, neck rolls and a series of rigorous exercise to

Who will Cry When You Die Robin Sharma (Phani)
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also the people closest to the ground. In a word, they are

Who will Cry When You Die Robin Sharma (Phani)
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One of the traits I respect most in people is humility. “The tree that has the most fruits is the tree that bends to the ground,”

Who will Cry When You Die Robin Sharma (Phani)
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The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upwards in the night.

Who will Cry When You Die Robin Sharma (Phani)
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it is not the number of hours of sleep that is key but rather the amount of renewal your body receives. Strive for less time in bed but a richer, deeper sleep. Understand that fatigue is often a mental creation that stems from doing tings you do not like to do.

Who will Cry When You Die Robin Sharma (Phani)
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the “acting as if” technique is a highly effective way to modify your behavior and transform yourself into the person you plan to be.

Who will Cry When You Die Robin Sharma (Phani)
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“fake it till you make it.” In other words, you can pretend to be the kind of person you wish to be. By consistently acting as a highly enthusiastic person might or as a truly confident person would, you will eventually take on these personal attributes.

Who will Cry When You Die Robin Sharma (Phani)
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When you love your job, you discover you will never have to work another day in your life. Your work will be play and the hours will slip away as quickly as they came.

Thinking, Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman (Kahneman, Daniel)
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“Beyond the satiation level of income, you can buy more pleasurable experiences, but you will lose some of your ability to enjoy the less expensive ones.”

Doglapan (Grover, Ashneer) (z-lib.org) (Grover, Ashneer)
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the twinkle in her eye as she reminisced about the past and

Sapiens (Yuval Noah Harari) (z-lib.org) (Yuval Noah Harari)
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He might even have had to sell his children into servitude.

Sapiens (Yuval Noah Harari) (z-lib.org) (Yuval Noah Harari)
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from cars and houses to disposable nappies and milk

21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Yuval Noah Har… (z-lib.org) (Yuval Noah Harari)
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stories invented by our ancestors in order to legitimise

21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Yuval Noah Har… (z-lib.org) (Yuval Noah Harari)
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just stories invented by our ancestors in order to legitimise

21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Yuval Noah Har… (z-lib.org) (Yuval Noah Harari)
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Two particularly important non-human abilities that AI possesses are connectivity and updateability.

21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Yuval Noah Har… (z-lib.org) (Yuval Noah Harari)
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drone operators and data analysts, the US Air Force is

How to Sell Your Way through Life: Author of Think and Grow Rich (International Bestseller) (Hill, Napoleon)
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awake, with a feeling that you are about to smother.

How to Sell Your Way through Life: Author of Think and Grow Rich (International Bestseller) (Hill, Napoleon)
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People refuse to take chances in business, because they fear the criticism which may follow if they fail. The fear of criticism, in such cases is stronger than the DESIRE for success.

How to Sell Your Way through Life: Author of Think and Grow Rich (International Bestseller) (Hill, Napoleon)
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weakness found in altogether too many people, is the habit of measuring everything, and everyone, by their own impressions and beliefs.

How to Sell Your Way through Life: Author of Think and Grow Rich (International Bestseller) (Hill, Napoleon)
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FAITH is the head chemist of the mind. When FAITH is blended with the vibration of thought, the subconscious mind instantly picks up the vibration, translates it into its spiritual equivalent, and transmits it to Infinite Intelligence, as in the case of prayer.

Get Epic Shit Done (Warikoo, Ankur) (z-lib.org) (Warikoo, Ankur)
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First, understand that our ability to communicate verbally is a direct reflection of our ability to structure our thoughts clearly. And that begins by writing!

Get Epic Shit Done (Warikoo, Ankur) (z-lib.org) (Warikoo, Ankur)
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Entitled people don’t grow. They wait to be grown! Because they believe the world owes them everything they desire.

Get Epic Shit Done (Warikoo, Ankur) (z-lib.org) (Warikoo, Ankur)
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if I spend time with people who are nothing like me, it will broaden my horizon. If I think of risk as something to be understood and not eliminated, I draw the courage to act beyond fear. And if I do so in a manner that I am never entitled, I ensure that I grow in the process.

Get Epic Shit Done (Warikoo, Ankur) (z-lib.org) (Warikoo, Ankur)
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Because you would have spent time observing yourself as someone external to you would.

Get Epic Shit Done (Warikoo, Ankur) (z-lib.org) (Warikoo, Ankur)
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If you are feeling the emotion of jealousy, its purpose is to make you aware of the inadequacy you are feeling in your own life. If you are feeling the emotion of anger, its purpose is to make you aware of an unfulfilled need within yourself. The minute you observe the emotion and realize the reason behind it, the emotion disappears. Because its purpose has been served.

Bitcoin Widow Love, Betrayal and the Missing Mi… (z-lib.org) (Jennifer Robertson)
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where the Buddha is said to have offered his first sermon.

Bitcoin Widow Love, Betrayal and the Missing Mi… (z-lib.org) (Jennifer Robertson)
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have no idea what, if anything, they discovered. No

Get Epic Shit Done (Warikoo, Ankur) (z-lib.org) (Warikoo, Ankur)
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But we all hate to reflect, to pause. We are scared of what we might discover when we sit to reflect.

Get Epic Shit Done (Warikoo, Ankur) (z-lib.org) (Warikoo, Ankur)
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So most people get comfortable avoiding rather than being aware.

Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill (International Bestseller) : Author of Think and Grow Rich (International Bestseller) (Hill, Napoleon)
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KNOWLEDGE will not attract money, unless it is organized, and intelligently directed, through practical PLANS OF ACTION, to the DEFINITE END of accumulation of money.

Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill (International Bestseller) : Author of Think and Grow Rich (International Bestseller) (Hill, Napoleon)
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reduce your plan to writing, if you have not already done so. The moment you complete this, you will have DEFINITELY given concrete form to the intangible DESIRE.

Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill (International Bestseller) : Author of Think and Grow Rich (International Bestseller) (Hill, Napoleon)
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As far as science has been able to determine, the entire universe consists of but two elements—matter and energy. Through the combination of energy and matter, has been created everything perceptible to man, from the largest star which floats in the heavens, down to, and including man, himself.

Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill (International Bestseller) : Author of Think and Grow Rich (International Bestseller) (Hill, Napoleon)
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began as an intangible form of energy. DESIRE

Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill (International Bestseller) : Author of Think and Grow Rich (International Bestseller) (Hill, Napoleon)
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DESIRE is thought impulse! Thought impulses are forms of energy. When you begin with the thought impulse, DESIRE, to accumulate money, you are drafting into your service the same “stuff” that Nature used in creating this earth,

Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill (International Bestseller) : Author of Think and Grow Rich (International Bestseller) (Hill, Napoleon)
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Ideas are intangible forces, but they have more power than the physical brains that give birth to them. They have the power to live on, after the brain that creates them has returned to dust.

Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill (International Bestseller) : Author of Think and Grow Rich (International Bestseller) (Hill, Napoleon)
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PERSISTENCE is an essential factor in the procedure of transmuting DESIRE into its monetary equivalent. The basis of persistence is the POWER OF WILL.

Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill (International Bestseller) : Author of Think and Grow Rich (International Bestseller) (Hill, Napoleon)
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Knowledge may be acquired from any of the foregoing sources. It may be converted into POWER by organizing it into definite PLANS and by expressing those plans in terms of ACTION.

Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill (International Bestseller) : Author of Think and Grow Rich (International Bestseller) (Hill, Napoleon)
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The “Master Mind” may be defined as: “Coordination of knowledge and effort, in a spirit of harmony, between two or more people, for the attainment of a definite purpose.”

Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill (International Bestseller) : Author of Think and Grow Rich (International Bestseller) (Hill, Napoleon)
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needs no plan. It needs no one to aid it, because it is bold and ruthless. Riches are shy and timid. They have to be “attracted.”

about through well-conceived and carefully executed PLANS. Poverty needs no plan. It needs no one to aid it, because it is bold and ruthless. Riches are shy and timid. They have to be “attracted.”

Poverty needs no plan. It needs no one to aid it, because it is bold and ruthless. Riches are shy and timid. They have to be “attracted.”

Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill (International Bestseller) : Author of Think and Grow Rich (International Bestseller) (Hill, Napoleon)
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Remember, your subconscious mind functions voluntarily, whether you make any effort to influence it or not. This, naturally, suggests to you that thoughts of fear and poverty, and all negative thoughts serve as stimuli to your subconscious mind, unless, you master these impulses and give it more desirable food upon which it may feed.

Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill (International Bestseller) : Author of Think and Grow Rich (International Bestseller) (Hill, Napoleon)
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The subconscious mind will not remain idle! If you fail to plant DESIRES in your subconscious mind, it will feed upon the thoughts which reach it as the result of your neglect.

Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill (International Bestseller) : Author of Think and Grow Rich (International Bestseller) (Hill, Napoleon)
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Through the aid of the imagination, thought impulses may be assembled into plans. The imagination, when under control, may be used for the creation of plans or purposes that lead to success in one’s chosen occupation.

Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill (International Bestseller) : Author of Think and Grow Rich (International Bestseller) (Hill, Napoleon)
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This method of mind stimulation, through harmonious discussion of definite subjects, between three people, illustrates the simplest and most practical use of the Master Mind.

Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill (International Bestseller) : Author of Think and Grow Rich (International Bestseller) (Hill, Napoleon)
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self-suggestion is a powerful factor in building character, that it is, in fact, the sole principle through which character is builded.

Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill (International Bestseller) : Author of Think and Grow Rich (International Bestseller) (Hill, Napoleon)
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BEFORE you can put any portion of this philosophy into successful use, your mind must be prepared to receive it. The preparation is not difficult. It begins with study, analysis, and understanding of three enemies which you shall have to clear out. These are INDECISION, DOUBT, and FEAR! The Sixth Sense will never function while these three negatives, or any of them remain in your mind.

Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill (International Bestseller) : Author of Think and Grow Rich (International Bestseller) (Hill, Napoleon)
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most commonly used alibis. As you read the list, examine

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Powerfu… (Z-Library) (Stephen R. Covey)
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The more aware we are of our basic paradigms, maps, or assumptions, and the extent to which we have been influenced by our experience, the more we can take responsibility for those paradigms, examine them, test them against reality, listen to others and be open to their perceptions, thereby getting a larger picture and a far more objective view.

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Powerfu… (Z-Library) (Stephen R. Covey)
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my attitude or my behavior; my heart was filled with the

Chip War The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology (Chris Miller)
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electronics industry called the “McNamara Depression,”

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Powerfu… (Z-Library) (Stephen R. Covey)
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Knowledge is the theoretical paradigm, the what to do and the why. Skill is the how to do. And desire is the motivation, the want to do. In order to make something a habit in our lives, we have to have all three.

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Powerfu… (Z-Library) (Stephen R. Covey)
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Chip War The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology (Chris Miller)
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fine wine. Helping companies and professors keep Moore’s Law alive, DARPA reasoned, was crucial to America’s

Chip War The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology (Chris Miller)
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the early 1970s, when Lynn Conway had arrived in Silicon Valley—had become a reality, when Intel announced

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Powerfu… (Z-Library) (Stephen R. Covey)
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Just as breathing exercises help integrate body and mind, writing is a kind of psycho-neural muscular activity which helps bridge and integrate the conscious and subconscious minds. Writing distills, crystallizes, and clarifies thought and helps break the whole into parts.

The Defining Decade Why Your Twenties Matter–A… (Z-Library) (Jay, Meg)
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my best to tell the personal, and sometimes poignant,

Sexual Energy Transmutation the secret path to… (Z-Library) (Jay Onwukwe)
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Your Mind is very fertile soil; your thoughts and desires are potent seeds, and they yield according to their kind. Thus your Mind, working in accord with Cosmic Intelligence brings about your ultimate experience, and indeed your earthly destiny. Surely, you create your world!

Sexual Energy Transmutation the secret path to… (Z-Library) (Jay Onwukwe)
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Taoism teaches that semen is a man’s most precious possession.

Sexual Energy Transmutation the secret path to… (Z-Library) (Jay Onwukwe)
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conservation goes a long way to help avoid unwanted maternity

Sexual Energy Transmutation the secret path to… (Z-Library) (Jay Onwukwe)
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at the same time open the doors to Liberation.

Chip War The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology (Chris Miller)
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superior. A foundry like TSMC could fabricate chips for

Chip War The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology (Chris Miller)
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reach over $100,000 monthly. The cloud may sound ethereal,

Do Epic Shit (Ankur Warikoo) (z-lib.org) (Warikoo, Ankur)
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If you often worry about what people will think of you, you will often end up doing what people want you to do.

Chip War The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology (Chris Miller)
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for Beijing, but they wouldn’t be unthinkable.

The Concise Laws of Human Nature (Robert Greene) (Z-Library) (Robert Greene)
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Rationality is the ability to counteract these emotional effects, to think instead of react, to open your mind to what is really happening, as opposed to what you are feeling.

The Concise Laws of Human Nature (Robert Greene) (Z-Library) (Robert Greene)
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to acquire rationality is not complicated. It simply requires knowing and working through a three-step process. First, we must become aware of what we call low-grade irrationality. This is a function of the continual moods and feelings that we experience in life, below the level of consciousness.

The Concise Laws of Human Nature (Robert Greene) (Z-Library) (Robert Greene)
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we must understand the nature of what we shall call high-grade irrationality. This occurs when our emotions become inflamed, generally because of certain pressures. As we think about our anger, excitement, resentment, or suspicion, it intensifies into a reactive state—everything we see or hear is interpreted through the lens of this emotion.

The Concise Laws of Human Nature (Robert Greene) (Z-Library) (Robert Greene)
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We imagine we are looking for the truth, or being realistic, when in fact we are holding on to ideas that bring a release from tension and soothe our egos, make us feel superior. This pleasure principle in thinking is the source of all of our mental biases.

The Concise Laws of Human Nature (Robert Greene) (Z-Library) (Robert Greene)
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Confirmation Bias To hold an idea and convince ourselves we arrived at it rationally, we go in search of evidence to support our view.

The Concise Laws of Human Nature (Robert Greene) (Z-Library) (Robert Greene)
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Conviction Bias We hold on to an idea that is secretly pleasing to us, but deep inside we might have some doubts as to its truth, and so we go an extra mile to convince ourselves—to believe in it with great vehemence and to loudly contradict anyone who challenges us.

The Concise Laws of Human Nature (Robert Greene) (Z-Library) (Robert Greene)
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Appearance Bias We see people not as they are, but as they appear to us. And these appearances are usually misleading.

The Concise Laws of Human Nature (Robert Greene) (Z-Library) (Robert Greene)
Location 262-263 | Added on Thursday, June 22, 2023 7:43:21 AM

The Concise Laws of Human Nature (Robert Greene) (Z-Library) (Robert Greene)
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whenever you experience unusual gains or losses, that is precisely the time to step back and counterbalance them with some necessary pessimism or optimism.

The Concise Laws of Human Nature (Robert Greene) (Z-Library) (Robert Greene)
Location 467-468 | Added on Saturday, June 24, 2023 3:10:53 PM

Abraham Lincoln said, “I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better.”

The Concise Laws of Human Nature (Robert Greene) (Z-Library) (Robert Greene)
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The strength emanates from a feeling of personal security and self-worth. This allows such people to take criticism and learn

The Concise Laws of Human Nature (Robert Greene) (Z-Library) (Robert Greene)
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Look at their patterns: what have they actually completed or accomplished? You can also test people. For instance, a good-natured joke at their expense can be quite revealing. Do they respond graciously to this, not so easily caught up in their insecurities, or do their eyes flash resentment or even anger?

Do Epic Shit (Ankur Warikoo) (z-lib.org) (Warikoo, Ankur)
Location 525-526 | Added on Saturday, July 1, 2023 8:53:44 AM

Comfort stems from facing what you fear. Staying in the comfort zone is the most dangerous thing to do.

Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman Adventures of… (Z-Library) (Richard P Feynman)
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his indignant impatience with pretension and hypocrisy,

Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman Adventures of… (Z-Library) (Richard P Feynman)
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delivering breakfast and the guy’s standing there, stark

Limitless (Jim Kwik) (Z-Library) (Jim Kwik)
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“No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.”

Limitless (Jim Kwik) (Z-Library) (Jim Kwik)
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It was in that moment that I realized that if knowledge

Limitless (Jim Kwik) (Z-Library) (Jim Kwik)
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if knowledge is power, then learning is our superpower. And our capacity to learn is limitless; we simply need to be shown how to access it.

Limitless (Jim Kwik) (Z-Library) (Jim Kwik)
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When you do what others won’t, you can live how others can’t.

Limitless (Jim Kwik) (Z-Library) (Jim Kwik)
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Where mindset and method intersect, you have ideation.

Limitless (Jim Kwik) (Z-Library) (Jim Kwik)
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if we never let our mind wander or be bored for a moment, we pay a price—

Limitless (Jim Kwik) (Z-Library) (Jim Kwik)
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deduction—an amalgam of critical thinking, problem solving, and creativity that is an essential skill for being limitless—is becoming automated.

Limitless (Jim Kwik) (Z-Library) (Jim Kwik)
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messages back and forth. Right now, you have somewhere

Limitless (Jim Kwik) (Z-Library) (Jim Kwik)
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plasticity, means that every time you learn something new, your brain makes a new synaptic connection. And each time this happens, your brain physically changes–it upgrades its hardware to reflect a new level of the mind.

Limitless (Jim Kwik) (Z-Library) (Jim Kwik)
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Our brain is malleable. We have the incredible ability to change its structure and organization over time by forming new neural pathways as we experience, learn something new, and adapt. Neuroplasticity helps explain how anything is possible.

Limitless (Jim Kwik) (Z-Library) (Jim Kwik)
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It’s totally normal to have a memory lapse—we’re human, not robots. But if we respond to this lapse in memory with the attitude that “I have a bad memory,” or “I’m not smart enough to remember this,” then we negatively affect our ability to learn and grow.

Limitless (Jim Kwik) (Z-Library) (Jim Kwik)
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your gut has its own way of interpreting events and giving your brain signals. Furthermore, when you feed your gut with subpar food, you’re also feeding your brain with subpar fuel.

Limitless (Jim Kwik) (Z-Library) (Jim Kwik)
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Give a person an idea, and you enrich their day. Teach a person how to learn, and they can enrich their entire life.

Limitless (Jim Kwik) (Z-Library) (Jim Kwik)
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what you have between your ears is your greatest wealth-creating asset. There are those who know and those who don’t know. And that applied knowledge is not just power, it’s profit. Your ability to think, solve problems, make the right decisions, create, innovate, and imagine is how we add value. The faster you can learn, the faster you can earn.

Limitless (Jim Kwik) (Z-Library) (Jim Kwik)
Location 1013-1016 | Added on Sunday, July 30, 2023 8:16:27 AM

As you are reading this book, when your mind inevitably wanders into something else—and that something else is important but not urgent—don’t try to not think of it. What you resist persists. Instead, keep a notebook close by to capture that thought or idea by writing it down. You can thus release it temporarily, to be addressed after the task at hand is complete.

Limitless (Jim Kwik) (Z-Library) (Jim Kwik)
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The human brain does not learn as much by consumption as it does by creation. Knowing that, I want you to ask yourself how you can become more active in your learning. Take notes.

Limitless (Jim Kwik) (Z-Library) (Jim Kwik)
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The French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre noted that, “Life is C between B and D,” meaning that the life we live is the choices we make between the “B” of birth and the “D” of death.

Limitless (Jim Kwik) (Z-Library) (Jim Kwik)
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crunching data. Steel geniuses love getting all

Limitless (Jim Kwik) (Z-Library) (Jim Kwik)
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The happiness that promoted the exploration and creation of new skills has long since ended, but the skills themselves live on.

Limitless (Jim Kwik) (Z-Library) (Jim Kwik)
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In the same way, if as adults we believe that we don’t have the capacity to learn, what do we do instead of taking the responsibility to teach ourselves what we want or need to know? We tell ourselves it isn’t necessary, we make excuses, we blame other people or circumstances, and then we distract ourselves with things that make us feel good.

Limitless (Jim Kwik) (Z-Library) (Jim Kwik)
Location 1833-1835 | Added on Friday, August 4, 2023 7:42:51 AM

Purpose drives us to act, and our purpose must be clear enough that we know why we’re acting and what we’re hoping to gain. Generating sufficient energy is vital—if you’re tired or sleepy, or if your brain is foggy, then you won’t have the fuel to take action.

Limitless (Jim Kwik) (Z-Library) (Jim Kwik)
Location 1974-1975 | Added on Sunday, August 6, 2023 2:23:32 PM

You could feel amazing and still get nothing done if your reasons for doing so are not strong enough.

Limitless (Jim Kwik) (Z-Library) (Jim Kwik)
Location 1994-1995 | Added on Sunday, August 6, 2023 2:27:25 PM

Having reasons has helped me become crystal clear when it comes to commitments. A big part of self-love is being protective of your time and energy.

Limitless (Jim Kwik) (Z-Library) (Jim Kwik)
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Pain can be your teacher, if you use it and not let it use you. Use pain to drive you to make things happen.

PCBDesignTutorialRevA
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design parameters call for something smaller. As a start, you may like to use say 25 thou for signal tracks, 50

How to Talk to Anyone (Leil Lowndes) (Z-Library) (Leil Lowndes)
Location 276-278 | Added on Monday, August 21, 2023 9:17:21 PM

I discovered the people perceived to have the most credibility and integrity were just ever so slower to smile. Then, when they did, their smiles seemed to seep into every crevice of their faces and envelop them like a slow flood. Thus I call the following technique The Flooding Smile.

How to Talk to Anyone (Leil Lowndes) (Z-Library) (Leil Lowndes)
Location 376-377 | Added on Monday, August 21, 2023 9:30:07 PM

you, however, your Epoxy Eyes are downright obnoxious.

Limitless (Jim Kwik) (Z-Library) (Jim Kwik)
Location 2856-2860 | Added on Saturday, August 26, 2023 10:04:38 AM

A Princeton University study found that, “Multiple stimuli present in the visual field at the same time compete for neural representation by mutually suppressing their evoked activity throughout the visual cortex, providing a neural correlate for the limited processing capacity of the visual system.”4 In layperson’s terms, what this means is that physical clutter in your surroundings competes for your attention, which results in decreased performance and increased anxiety and stress levels.

Limitless (Jim Kwik) (Z-Library) (Jim Kwik)
Location 2967-2973 | Added on Saturday, August 26, 2023 7:28:19 PM

psychologists have noted that there are four levels of competence or learning. The first, known as “unconscious incompetence,” is when you don’t know what you don’t know. For example, you might not even be aware of the fact that something like speed-reading exists. So, you’re also not aware that you’re currently not capable of doing it. In the next level, known as “conscious incompetence,” you’re aware of what you don’t know. For example, you’re aware that people have learned to read and comprehend much faster through speed-reading techniques, but you yourself have not had any training in this area, nor do you understand what tools are necessary to become a speed-reader. The third level is “conscious competence.” What this means is that you’re aware of a skill and have the capacity to perform that skill, but only when you actively put your mind to it. You can do it, but it takes work.

Limitless (Jim Kwik) (Z-Library) (Jim Kwik)
Location 4174-4177 | Added on Thursday, August 31, 2023 8:23:20 AM

You know . . . If you think about the very nature of life—I mean, in the very beginning, the development of the first cell divided into two cells—the sole purpose of life has been to pass on what was learned. There was no higher purpose. So if you’re asking me what to do with all this knowledge you’re accumulating, I say . . Pass it on.

Never Get a Real Job How to Dump Your Boss, Bui… (Z-Library) (Gerber, Scott)
Location 658-659 | Added on Sunday, September 10, 2023 8:18:41 AM

hustler instincts, the intuition for problem solving, and good old-fashioned perseverance. These traits will enable you to open closed doors, surpass your competitors, and make things happen.

Never Get a Real Job How to Dump Your Boss, Bui… (Z-Library) (Gerber, Scott)
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is the one the successful people hire you to chauffeur.

10,001 Ways to Live Large on a Small Budget (Th… (Z-Library) (The Writers of Wise Bread)
Location 3521-3522 | Added on Sunday, September 10, 2023 9:37:26 AM

but I always thought of myself as relatively eloquent.

10,001 Ways to Live Large on a Small Budget (Th… (Z-Library) (The Writers of Wise Bread)
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and what position they play in the company. They

Never Eat Alone _ And Other Secrets to Suc - Ferrazzi, Keith; Raz, Tahl (Ferrazzi, Keith)
Location 1420-1422 | Added on Monday, September 11, 2023 12:04:55 AM

Invisibility is a fate far worse than failure. It means that you should always be reaching out to others—over breakfast, lunch, whatever. It means that if one meeting happens to go sour, you have six other engagements lined up just like it the rest of the week.

Never Eat Alone _ And Other Secrets to Suc - Ferrazzi, Keith; Raz, Tahl (Ferrazzi, Keith)
Location 149-150 | Added on Tuesday, September 12, 2023 8:01:42 AM

Relationships are all there is. Everything in the universe only exists because it is in relationship to everything else. Nothing exists in isolation. We have to stop pretending we are individuals that can go it alone.

Never Eat Alone _ And Other Secrets to Suc - Ferrazzi, Keith; Raz, Tahl (Ferrazzi, Keith)
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Success in any field, but especially in business, is about working with people, not against them. No tabulation of dollars and cents can account for one immutable fact: Business is a human

Never Eat Alone _ And Other Secrets to Suc - Ferrazzi, Keith; Raz, Tahl (Ferrazzi, Keith)
Location 205-207 | Added on Tuesday, September 12, 2023 8:19:55 AM

Success in any field, but especially in business, is about working with people, not against them. No tabulation of dollars and cents can account for one immutable fact: Business is a human enterprise, driven and determined by people. It wasn’t

Never Eat Alone _ And Other Secrets to Suc - Ferrazzi, Keith; Raz, Tahl (Ferrazzi, Keith)
Location 205-207 | Added on Tuesday, September 12, 2023 8:20:00 AM

Success in any field, but especially in business, is about working with people, not against them. No tabulation of dollars and cents can account for one immutable fact: Business is a human enterprise, driven and determined by people.

Never Eat Alone _ And Other Secrets to Suc - Ferrazzi, Keith; Raz, Tahl (Ferrazzi, Keith)
Location 342-342 | Added on Wednesday, September 13, 2023 7:59:25 AM

businesspeople would do well to take seriously. Competitive

Never Eat Alone _ And Other Secrets to Suc - Ferrazzi, Keith; Raz, Tahl (Ferrazzi, Keith)
Location 342-343 | Added on Wednesday, September 13, 2023 7:59:33 AM

Competitive edge in the industrial era was won by constantly reengineering process and systems. Today it’s won by improving relationships.

Never Eat Alone _ And Other Secrets to Suc - Ferrazzi, Keith; Raz, Tahl (Ferrazzi, Keith)
Location 446-449 | Added on Thursday, September 14, 2023 8:40:44 AM

Every successful person I’ve met shared, in varying degrees, a zeal for goal setting. Successful athletes, CEOs, charismatic leaders, rainmaking salespeople, and accomplished managers all know what they want in life, and they go after it. As my dad used to say, no one becomes an astronaut by accident.

Never Eat Alone _ And Other Secrets to Suc - Ferrazzi, Keith; Raz, Tahl (Ferrazzi, Keith)
Location 497-498 | Added on Thursday, September 14, 2023 8:51:06 AM

There are two aspects to getting good information. One part comes from within you; the other part comes from those around you.

Never Eat Alone _ And Other Secrets to Suc - Ferrazzi, Keith; Raz, Tahl (Ferrazzi, Keith)
Location 702-703 | Added on Saturday, September 16, 2023 9:33:33 AM

From Clinton, two lessons are clear: First, the more specific you are about where you want to go in life, the easier it becomes to develop a networking strategy to get there.

Never Eat Alone _ And Other Secrets to Suc - Ferrazzi, Keith; Raz, Tahl (Ferrazzi, Keith)
Location 702-705 | Added on Saturday, September 16, 2023 9:33:52 AM

From Clinton, two lessons are clear: First, the more specific you are about where you want to go in life, the easier it becomes to develop a networking strategy to get there. Second, be sensitive to making a real connection in your interactions with others. There is almost an expectation among us that whoever becomes rich or powerful can be forgiven for highhanded

Never Eat Alone _ And Other Secrets to Suc - Ferrazzi, Keith; Raz, Tahl (Ferrazzi, Keith)
Location 702-705 | Added on Saturday, September 16, 2023 9:34:04 AM

From Clinton, two lessons are clear: First, the more specific you are about where you want to go in life, the easier it becomes to develop a networking strategy to get there. Second, be sensitive to making a real connection in your interactions with others. There is almost an expectation among us that whoever becomes rich or powerful can be forgiven for highhanded behavior.

Never Eat Alone _ And Other Secrets to Suc - Ferrazzi, Keith; Raz, Tahl (Ferrazzi, Keith)
Location 1333-1333 | Added on Saturday, September 23, 2023 9:04:06 AM

extra few minutes kibitzing. “Mary, you’re a hoot

Never Eat Alone _ And Other Secrets to Suc - Ferrazzi, Keith; Raz, Tahl (Ferrazzi, Keith)
Location 2228-2230 | Added on Thursday, September 28, 2023 8:22:49 AM

The message here is that we can go through life, particularly conferences and other professional gatherings, making shallow, run-of-the-mill conversation with strangers who remain strangers. Or we can put a little of ourselves, our real selves, on the line, give people a glimpse of our humanity, and create the opportunity for a deeper connection. We have a choice.

Never Eat Alone _ And Other Secrets to Suc - Ferrazzi, Keith; Raz, Tahl (Ferrazzi, Keith)
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You should be governed by the idea that one should seek first to understand, then to be understood. We’re often so worried about what we’re going to say next that we don’t hear what’s being said to us now.

Never Eat Alone _ And Other Secrets to Suc - Ferrazzi, Keith; Raz, Tahl (Ferrazzi, Keith)
Location 2329-2330 | Added on Sunday, October 1, 2023 9:26:03 AM

If All Else Fails, Five Words That Never Do “You’re wonderful. Tell me more.”

Elon Musk (Walter Isaacson) (Z-Library) (Walter Isaacson)
Location 101-102 | Added on Sunday, October 1, 2023 11:37:50 AM

man who was never an athlete, he would walk with the stride

Elon Musk (Walter Isaacson) (Z-Library) (Walter Isaacson)
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that Musk put two years’ worth of compensation into escrow.

Elon Musk (Walter Isaacson) (Z-Library) (Walter Isaacson)
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“Elon believes that every situation is salvageable. That taught us a lot. And it actually was fun.”

Elon Musk (Walter Isaacson) (Z-Library) (Walter Isaacson)
Location 1540-1542 | Added on Saturday, October 7, 2023 8:26:16 PM

“Elon believes that every situation is salvageable. That taught us a lot. And it actually was fun.” It also saved SpaceX months in getting its initial rocket tested.

Elon Musk (Walter Isaacson) (Z-Library) (Walter Isaacson)
Location 2680-2681 | Added on Wednesday, October 11, 2023 8:03:08 AM

“In most people’s vocabularies, design means veneer,” Jobs once explained. “Nothing could be further from the meaning of design. Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers.”

Never Eat Alone _ And Other Secrets to Suc - Ferrazzi, Keith; Raz, Tahl (Ferrazzi, Keith)
Location 3565-3566 | Added on Thursday, October 12, 2023 8:51:55 PM

in the words of Joichi Ito, director of MIT’s media lab, “If you plan your whole life, by definition you can’t get lucky. So you have to leave that little slot open.”

Elon Musk (Walter Isaacson) (Z-Library) (Walter Isaacson)
Location 3805-3808 | Added on Saturday, October 14, 2023 7:33:00 PM

When hiring, look for people with the right attitude. Skills can be taught. Attitude changes require a brain transplant. A maniacal sense of urgency is our operating principle. The only rules are the ones dictated by the laws of physics. Everything else is a recommendation.

Elon Musk (Walter Isaacson) (Z-Library) (Walter Isaacson)
Location 4613-4613 | Added on Tuesday, October 17, 2023 8:52:13 AM

“I stopped staying at Ken’s house after the Journal doxed

Elon Musk (Walter Isaacson) (Z-Library) (Walter Isaacson)
Location 4902-4904 | Added on Wednesday, October 18, 2023 7:53:02 AM

“I give people hardcore feedback, mostly accurate, and I try not to do it in a way that’s ad hominem,” he says. “I try to criticize the action, not the person. We all make mistakes. What matters is whether a person has a good feedback loop, can seek criticism from others, and can improve. Physics does not care about hurt feelings. It cares about whether you got the rocket right.”

Never Eat Alone _ And Other Secrets to Suc - Ferrazzi, Keith; Raz, Tahl (Ferrazzi, Keith)
Location 3806-3808 | Added on Wednesday, October 18, 2023 8:38:42 AM

The trick is not to work obsessively on the skills and talents you lack, but to focus and cultivate your strengths so that your weaknesses matter less. I’d apply the 80/20 rule, in that you should spend some time getting better at your weaknesses but really focus on building your strengths.

Never Eat Alone _ And Other Secrets to Suc - Ferrazzi, Keith; Raz, Tahl (Ferrazzi, Keith)
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Expose yourself to unusual experiences. When management guru Peter Drucker was asked for one thing that would make a person better in business, he responded, “Learn to play the violin.” Different experiences give rise to different tools. Find out what your kids are interested in and why. Stimulate your creativity. Learn about things that are out of the mainstream. Travel to weird and exotic places. Knowing one’s own industry and one’s native markets is not enough to compete in the future. Take a deep and boundless curiosity about things outside your own profession and comfort zone.

Elon Musk (Walter Isaacson) (Z-Library) (Walter Isaacson)
Location 6089-6090 | Added on Friday, October 20, 2023 9:46:59 PM

could include a payment system using Dogecoin, Elon mused.

Elon Musk (Walter Isaacson) (Z-Library) (Walter Isaacson)
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practice sessions was Milan Kovac. “I think I have PTSD,”

Elon Musk (Walter Isaacson) (Z-Library) (Walter Isaacson)
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keeping. Another two rooms were occupied by his platoon

Elon Musk (Walter Isaacson) (Z-Library) (Walter Isaacson)
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But Musk believed in a fail-fast approach to building rockets. Take risks. Learn by blowing things up. Revise. Repeat. “We don’t want to design to eliminate every risk,” he said. “Otherwise, we will never get anywhere.”

Elon Musk (Walter Isaacson) (Z-Library) (Walter Isaacson)
Location 8398-8400 | Added on Tuesday, October 24, 2023 9:41:50 AM

Musk believed in a fail-fast approach to building rockets. Take risks. Learn by blowing things up. Revise. Repeat. “We don’t want to design to eliminate every risk,” he said. “Otherwise, we will never get anywhere.”

Who will Cry When You Die Robin Sharma (Phani)
Location 41-44 | Added on Tuesday, October 24, 2023 5:09:00 PM

We can easily put a person on the Moon, but we have trouble walking across the street to meet a new neighbor. We can fire a missile across the world with pinpoint accuracy, but we have trouble keeping a date with our children to go to the library. We have e-mail, fax machines and digital phones so that we can stay connected and yet we live in a time where human beings have never been less connected. We have lost touch with our humanity. We have lost touch with our purpose. We have lost sight of the things that matter the most.

Who will Cry When You Die Robin Sharma (Phani)
Location 66-67 | Added on Tuesday, October 24, 2023 5:16:15 PM

Kindness, quite simply, is the tent we must pay for the space we occupy on this planet.

Who will Cry When You Die Robin Sharma (Phani)
Location 93-95 | Added on Tuesday, October 24, 2023 5:21:22 PM

I call the habit of self – discipline “Tough Love” because getting tough with yourself is actually a very loving gesture. By being stricter with yourself, you will begin to live life more deliberately, on your own terms rather than simply reacting to life the way a leaf floating in a stream drifts according to the flow of the current on a particular day.

Who will Cry When You Die Robin Sharma (Phani)
Location 139-140 | Added on Tuesday, October 24, 2023 5:47:07 PM

Those who take more chances and dare to be more and do more than others will naturally experience more failures. But personally, I would rather have the bravery to

Who will Cry When You Die Robin Sharma (Phani)
Location 139-140 | Added on Tuesday, October 24, 2023 5:47:13 PM

Those who take more chances and dare to be more and do more than others will naturally experience more failures. But personally, I would rather have the bravery to try something

Who will Cry When You Die Robin Sharma (Phani)
Location 139-141 | Added on Tuesday, October 24, 2023 5:47:20 PM

Those who take more chances and dare to be more and do more than others will naturally experience more failures. But personally, I would rather have the bravery to try something and then fail than never to have tried it at all.

Who will Cry When You Die Robin Sharma (Phani)
Location 166-168 | Added on Friday, October 27, 2023 7:51:30 AM

“if your priorities don’t get scheduled into your planner, other people’s priorities will get put into your planner.” The solution is to be clear about your life’s highest objectives and then to learn to say no with grace.

The Serendipity Mindset The Art and Science of… (Z-Library) (Christian Busch)
Location 96-97 | Added on Sunday, October 29, 2023 8:31:45 AM

Serendipity is the hidden force in the world, and it is present all around us, from the smallest day-to-day events, to life-changing, and sometimes world-changing, breakthroughs.

The Serendipity Mindset The Art and Science of… (Z-Library) (Christian Busch)
Location 218-220 | Added on Sunday, October 29, 2023 10:32:53 PM

In this day and age, being successful and joyful is not about trying to plan everything. In a world where we often cannot predict what will happen tomorrow, the best we can do is to embrace unexpected conditions and make the most out of the randomness of life.

The Serendipity Mindset The Art and Science of… (Z-Library) (Christian Busch)
Location 690-692 | Added on Wednesday, November 1, 2023 8:55:17 AM

serendipity is a process rather than a singular event, and it often has a long incubation period. We might not always be willing or able to track it back to the moment where it “started.” Instead, we try to make sense out of what just happened and usually tell only half of the story.

When Breath Becomes Air (Paul Kalanithi, Abraha… (Z-Library) (Paul Kalanithi)
Location 819-819 | Added on Thursday, November 2, 2023 8:06:48 AM

the field entirely; she elected to leave for a less taxing

When Breath Becomes Air (Paul Kalanithi, Abraha… (Z-Library) (Paul Kalanithi)
Location 1792-1792 | Added on Friday, November 3, 2023 9:28:37 PM

doctors’ speeches as I wobbled in and out of coherence.

Meditations (Marcus Aurelius) (Z-Library) (Marcus Aurelius)
Location 232-233 | Added on Sunday, November 5, 2023 7:00:33 PM

and directs the world. It is also an actual substance

Who will Cry When You Die Robin Sharma (Phani)
Location 513-514 | Added on Sunday, November 5, 2023 7:30:14 PM

“Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it,” observed David Starr Jordan.

Molecules of Emotion The Science Behind Mind-Bo… (Z-Library) (Pert, Candace B.)
Location 55-57 | Added on Tuesday, November 7, 2023 7:08:57 PM

In exploring how the mind, spirit, and emotions are unified with the physical body in one intelligent system, what I call “the field of intelligence,” Candace has taken a giant step toward shattering some cherished beliefs held sacred by Western scientists for more than two centuries.

Molecules of Emotion The Science Behind Mind-Bo… (Z-Library) (Pert, Candace B.)
Location 133-133 | Added on Wednesday, November 8, 2023 7:50:17 AM

as a former chief of brain biochemistry who toiled

Molecules of Emotion The Science Behind Mind-Bo… (Z-Library) (Pert, Candace B.)
Location 216-217 | Added on Thursday, November 9, 2023 9:33:03 AM

Molecules of Emotion The Science Behind Mind-Bo… (Z-Library) (Pert, Candace B.)
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Molecules of Emotion The Science Behind Mind-Bo… (Z-Library) (Pert, Candace B.)
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Unless we can measure something, science won’t concede

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solution that was responsible. He had inadvertently

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So to be paid more money in your work, you must add more value to the world. And the best way to begin adding value to the world is to start becoming a more valuable person. Acquire skills no one else has. Read books no one else is reading. Think thoughts no one else is thinking. Or, to put it another way, you cannot have all that you want if you remain the person you are. To get more from life, you need to be more in life.

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What’s in their bag of tricks? You’ll find a lot of things: There’s a substance that solidifies friendships, a wizardry that wins minds, and a magic that makes people fall in love with them. There’s also a quality that makes bosses hire and then promote, a characteristic that keeps clients coming back, and an asset that makes customers buy from them and not the competition. We all have a few of those tricks in our bags, some more than others. Those with a whole lot of them are Big Winners in life.

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There are two kinds of people in this life: Those who walk into a room and say, ‘Well, here I am!’ And those who walk in and say, ‘Ahh, there you are.’

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you’ve been thrice married, you got caught shoplifting

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to improve your life, you must first improve your thinking. Or as the old saying goes, “We see the world, not as it is but as we are.”

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We must begin by understanding how we shaped our tools and how they, in turn, are shaping us.

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This awareness-driven environment design and habit change are what we call The Art of Bitfulness.

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Digital technologies allow us to access any context from any environment. With the internet’s infinite choice, the responsibility of being disciplined and exerting self-control falls on us.

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‘paradox of choice’.

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Too much choice is what keeps us coming back for more, hoping that luck will be in our favour this time and we will discover something surprising or exciting. Too much choice is why we let autoplay decide our next video. If we give people too much choice and the option to let the machine decide for them, most

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Too much choice is what keeps us coming back for more, hoping that luck will be in our favour this time and we will discover something surprising or exciting. Too much choice is why we let autoplay decide our next video. If we give people too much choice and the option to let the machine decide for them, most will prefer to not exert self-control and handover the reins to the machine.

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Too much choice is what keeps us coming back for more, hoping that luck will be in our favour this time and we will discover something surprising or exciting. Too much choice is why we let autoplay decide our next video. If we give people too much choice and the option to let the machine decide for them, most will prefer to not exert self-control and handover the reins to the machine. Too much choice obfuscates the most

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Too much choice is what keeps us coming back for more, hoping that luck will be in our favour this time and we will discover something surprising or exciting. Too much choice is why we let autoplay decide our next video. If we give people too much choice and the option to let the machine decide for them, most will prefer to not exert self-control and handover the reins to the machine. Too much choice obfuscates the most

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Too much choice is what keeps us coming back for more, hoping that luck will be in our favour this time and we will discover something surprising or exciting. Too much choice is why we let autoplay decide our next video. If we give people too much choice and the option to let the machine decide for them, most will prefer to not exert self-control and handover the reins to the machine. Too much choice obfuscates the most meaningful choice—our choice to stop.

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Cognitive effort is known to be hard. Scientists from McGill University, Canada, set up an experiment to ask people to choose between a cognitively demanding task or experience painful heat. In their results published in 2020, they conclude, ‘This provides compelling evidence that cognitive effort is aversive and the desire to avoid it can be quite strong. Put simply, people preferred to experience physical pain rather than do something mentally demanding.

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The resistance to cognitive effort varies across individuals, but all of us show some degree of resistance. We can overcome it, but doing so feels tiring. When we’re stressed, distracted or tired, we’re less likely to think about our own best interests and do what’s mentally easy instead.

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Variable rewards create powerful habits. Whether rats pressing levers or humans touching their phones, a variable reward schedule can make us behave compulsively. It can ruin our ability to self-control, even when we know we should. Smartphones aren’t the only technology to take advantage of this behavioural oddity. To

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The way to practise bitfulness is, therefore, awareness-driven habit and environment change.

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The way to practise bitfulness is, therefore, awareness-driven habit and environment change. In Part Two of this book, we will thoughtfully design our extended mind. Instead of exercising willpower, make it easier to stay in context, minimize choices and reinforce good habits. If we design our environment around who we are, instead of who we wish we were, we can guide ourselves towards making healthier choices automatically.

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The way to practise bitfulness is, therefore, awareness-driven

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The way to practise bitfulness is, therefore, awareness-driven habit and environment change.

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If we design our environment around who we are, instead of who we wish we were, we can guide ourselves towards making healthier choices automatically.

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manage ourselves better and practise bitfulness,

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if you don’t design your technology around your life, someone else will design your life around their technology. If you want to control your time, attention, and privacy, you will need more than just willpower or quick hacks.

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reason for a negative mood could also be that the task triggers deeper feelings of insecurity, low self-esteem, self-doubt or other anxieties. For example, someone may be delaying updating their resume because they have a latent fear of being rejected. In every case, our brains avoid the potential negative mood by avoiding doing the task altogether.

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American author Mary Flannery O’Connor put it in a simpler way—‘I write because I don’t know what I think until I read what I say.’

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The most probable explanation is that journaling lets you identify your own stress and helps deal with it better, leading to health benefits.

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The most probable explanation is that journaling lets you identify your own stress and helps deal with it better, leading to health benefits. Simply writing down what’s bothering you converts it from an abstract, all-consuming worry into something much more

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The most probable explanation is that journaling lets you identify your own stress and helps deal with it better, leading to health benefits. Simply writing down what’s bothering you converts it from an abstract, all-consuming worry into something much more contained and manageable.

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Time spent thinking does not take more time; it frees it up. The point of thinking isn’t always to generate brilliant ideas. Thinking deliberately helps us see all the ways in which we take useless action.

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hard things get sicker. Completion

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Completion bias is why even when we don’t waste time on distractions, it often still feels like time slipped through our fingers. We complete easier, smaller tasks and it makes us feel productive in the short-run. But over the long run, doing small tasks doesn’t feel like fulfilling progress.

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Ultimately, time is zero-sum. If you’ve signed up for more work at the office, you are probably spending less time with family or on your hobbies. Unlike your bank balance, you don’t see your time balance deplete when you overspend your time on something you can’t afford. This lack of feedback can be actively harmful.

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As Yogi Berra once said, ‘In theory, there’s no difference between theory and practice. In practice—there is.’

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distractions in this mode. We want to be Ulysses

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Most of our bodymind attentional shifts are subconscious. While neuropeptides are actually directing our attention by their activities, we are not consciously involved in deciding what gets processed, remembered, and learned.

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Norman Cousins once told me that he had gotten over a broken elbow, which he had suffered while playing tennis, and got back on the court in record time simply by focusing for twenty minutes each day on increasing the blood flow through the injured joint, after his physician explained that poor blood supply to the elbow was why injuries to this joint healed slowly.

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weakened conditions that can lead to disease. All

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All honest emotions are positive emotions.

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I believe all emotions are healthy, because emotions are what unite the mind and the body. Anger, tear, and sadness, the so-called negative emotions, are as healthy as peace, courage, and joy. To repress these emotions and not let them flow freely is to set up a dis-integrity in the system, causing it to act at cross-purposes rather than as a unified

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reasons many of us may have a tendency to conform

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that might cure erectile dysfunction. Viagra

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“Things tend to work out in the end—and if they haven’t, it’s not yet the end!”

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to cheer me up with her own take on John Lennon’s famous quote: “Things tend to work out in the end—and if they haven’t, it’s not yet the end!”

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John Lennon’s famous quote: “Things tend to work out in the end—and if they haven’t, it’s not yet the end!”

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Fascinating experiments have shown that self-fulfilling prophecies particularly apply to the way we frame the world: If we think things will turn out well, they turn out well more often—and the opposite is true as well. We quite literally “manifest” and “speak into existence.” Serendipity Is Abundant—If We Want It to Be Starting to see every situation—and particularly, every conversation—

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Fascinating experiments have shown that self-fulfilling prophecies particularly apply to the way we frame the world: If we think things will turn out well, they turn out well more often—and the opposite is true as well. We quite literally

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Fascinating experiments have shown that self-fulfilling prophecies particularly apply to the way we frame the world: If we think things will turn out well, they turn out well more often—and the opposite is true as well. We quite literally

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Fascinating experiments have shown that self-fulfilling prophecies particularly apply to the way we frame the world: If we think things will turn out well, they turn out well more often—and the opposite is true as well. We quite literally

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Fascinating experiments have shown that self-fulfilling prophecies particularly apply to the way we frame the world: If we think things will turn out well, they turn out well more often—and the opposite is true as well. We quite literally “manifest” and “speak into existence.”

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Curiosity and, crucially, openness to unsought information and events dramatically increases our chances of experiencing serendipity.16 This is often coupled with the willingness to find an anomaly or the surprise in a given situation.

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Acting On It If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. ATTRIBUTED TO ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPÉRY

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If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. ATTRIBUTED TO ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPÉRY

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Our aspiration is often born out of deeper beliefs and values. If we grew up in a collectivistic environment, “family” might be more important than “personal” ambition. If we grew up in a career-focused, individualistic environment, we might be more inclined to focus on individual rather than group aspirations.9 And often it can be driven

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Our aspiration is often born out of deeper beliefs and values. If we grew up in a collectivistic environment, “family” might be more important than “personal” ambition. If we grew up in a career-focused, individualistic environment, we might be more inclined to focus on individual rather than group aspirations.9 And often it can be driven by deep emotions such as fear, despair, or revenge. Or, crucially, a search for meaning.

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studies have shown that optimistic people tend to have more luck than others—it is almost a self-fulfilling prophecy that manifests itself.18

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research has shown that kindness and gratitude can also improve our sleep quality, happiness, and alertness.) Adam Grant writes that “givers”—people who think about “what can I do for you” and who are intrinsically motivated to add value to others—are often more successful than “takers.”

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In short, it is in our enlightened self-interest to not be too self-interested. This is both to feel better about ourselves, and to make others more willing to help us connect the dots and find serendipity. But none of this will help much unless we are receptive to serendipity.

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Original people do not necessarily have better ideas than others—they just tend to have more ideas, which increases the probability of developing a great one.

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Start managing your energy based on when you feel most energetic—it’s not just about showing up, it’s about how you show up.

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psychological safety is at the core of a healthy corporate culture and of good performance.4 Her work gained momentum in the 1990s with a study showing that better-performing teams are ones that talk more about mistakes.

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In addition to bureaucracy and other potential hurdles, we are sometimes so busy with getting our job done that we don’t allow for much serendipity. We’re just too focused on being busy!

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of bachelor’s degrees in philosophy and theology,

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of bachelor’s degrees in philosophy and theology,

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64 percent now say that they’re actively unhappy in their jobs. This is the highest level of dissatisfaction ever measured for any age group over the full two-decade history of the survey4. In other words, our generation-spanning experiment with passion-centric career planning can be deemed a failure: The more we focused on loving what we do, the less we ended up loving it.

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First, when you focus only on what your work offers you, it makes you hyperaware of what you don’t like about it, leading to chronic unhappiness.

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when you focus only on what your work offers you, it makes you hyperaware of what you don’t like about it, leading to chronic unhappiness.

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craftsman mindset focuses on what you can offer the world, the passion mindset focuses instead on what the world can offer you.

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If you want to love what you do, abandon the passion mindset (“what can the world offer me?”) and instead adopt the craftsman mindset (“what can I offer the world?”).

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Shinrigaku Nyumon (Introduction to Adlerian

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the spotlight effect.14 Most likely, we are dramatically overestimating any negative impressions that others might have of us on account of our speaking.

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his power to over-rule the deceitfulness

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particularly after his mother was committed to an asylum.

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particularly after his mother was committed to an asylum.

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emotional and aggressive, but this did not intimidate

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undiscerning, or if she sees him going too

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On the outside they tend to seem cynical and jaded,

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The bank was rescued and it came out of the moratorium,

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thoughts, make her fall in love with him. Physically, he

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possess you. Step back now and you make your targets

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way to relieve this anxiety is to pursue and possess

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way to relieve this anxiety is to pursue and possess

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you are leading them along, but they are enjoying it. No one likes things to be complicated and difficult,

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you are leading them along, but they are enjoying it. No one likes things to be complicated and difficult,

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being rather intellectual with her, and slowly intriguing

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Imagine a life where almost everything gets better but you never appreciate it because your expectations rise as fast as your circumstances. It’s terrifying, and almost as bad as a world where nothing gets better.

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We spend so much effort trying to improve our income, skills, and ability to forecast the future—all good stuff worthy of our attention. But on the other side there’s an almost complete ignorance of expectations, especially managing them with as much effort as we put into changing our circumstances.

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Reversion to the mean is one of the most common stories in history. It’s the main character in economies, markets, countries, companies, careers—everything. Part of the reason it happens is because the same personality traits that push people to the top also increase the odds of pushing them over the edge.

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A common trait of human behavior is the burning desire for certainty despite living in an uncertain and probabilistic world. Dealing with the math behind risk and uncertainty in general is difficult—something people have struggled with forever and always will. That something can be likely and not happen, or unlikely and still happen, is one of the world’s most important tricks.

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If you have the right answer and you’re a good storyteller, you’ll almost certainly get ahead. That’s always been true, always will be true, and it shows up in so many areas of history.

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ice-cold statistics. If you have the right answer, you may or may not get ahead. If you have the wrong answer but you’re a good storyteller, you’ll probably get ahead (for a while). If you have the right answer and you’re a good storyteller, you’ll almost certainly get ahead. That’s always been true, always will be true, and it shows up in so many areas of history.

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If you have the right answer, you may or may not get ahead. If you have the wrong answer but you’re a good storyteller, you’ll probably get ahead (for a while). If you have the right answer and you’re a good storyteller, you’ll almost certainly get ahead. That’s always been true, always will be true, and it shows up in so many areas of history.

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Economist Per Bylund once noted: “The concept of economic value is easy: whatever someone wants has value, regardless of the reason (if any).” Not utility, not profits—just whether people want it or not, for any reason. So much of what happens in the economy is rooted in emotions, which can, at times, be nearly impossible to make sense of.

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Robert Greene writes: “The greatest impediment to creativity is your impatience, the almost inevitable desire to hurry up the process, express something, and make a splash.”

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Stress focuses your attention in ways good times can’t. It kills procrastination and indecision, taking what you need to get done and shoving it so close to your face that you have no choice but to pursue it, right now and to the best of your ability.

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The best financial plan is to save like a pessimist and invest like an optimist.

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Evolution has spent 3.8 billion years testing and proving the idea that some inefficiency is good.

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equally important. And that’s how it should be: Not maximizing your potential is actually the sweet spot in a world where perfecting one skill compromises another. Evolution has spent 3.8 billion years testing and proving the idea that some inefficiency is good.

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Not maximizing your potential is actually the sweet spot in a world where perfecting one skill compromises another. Evolution has spent 3.8 billion years testing and proving the idea that some inefficiency is good.

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Psychologist Amos Tversky once said that “the secret to doing good research is always to be a little underemployed. You waste years by not being able to waste hours.”

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Just like evolution, the key is realizing that the more perfect you try to become, the more vulnerable you generally are.

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It’s not detailed, but it’s good enough. When

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When you keep forecasting that simple, you free up time and bandwidth for other activities. I like studying the investing behaviors that never change, and I’d never have the time to do that if I spent my day predicting what the economy will do next quarter. The same is true in virtually every field. The more precise you try to be, the less time you have to focus on big-picture rules that are probably more important. It’s less about admitting that we can’t forecast, and more about acknowledging that if your forecast is merely good enough, you can invest your time and resources more efficiently elsewhere.

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Charlie Munger once noted: “The safest way to try to get what you want is to try to deserve what you want. It’s such a simple idea. It’s the golden rule. You want to deliver to the world what you would buy if you were on the other end.”

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Compounding is fueled by endurance, so sitting through periods of insanity is not a defect; it’s accepting an optimal level of hassle.

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disguise.

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Patience is often stubbornness in disguise.

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Complexity gives a comforting impression of control, while simplicity is hard to distinguish from cluelessness.

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Even with the craftsman mindset, however, becoming “so good they can’t ignore you” is not trivial. To help these efforts I introduced the well-studied concept of deliberate practice, an approach to work where you deliberately stretch your abilities beyond where you’re comfortable and then receive ruthless feedback on your performance.

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acquisition. I argued that it’s important to adopt the craftsman mindset, where you focus relentlessly on what value you’re offering the world. This stands in stark contrast to the much more common passion mindset, which has you focus only on what value the world is offering you. Even with the craftsman mindset, however, becoming “so good they can’t ignore you” is not trivial. To help these efforts I introduced the well-studied concept of deliberate practice, an approach to work where you deliberately stretch your abilities beyond where you’re comfortable and then receive ruthless feedback on your performance.

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I argued that it’s important to adopt the craftsman mindset, where you focus relentlessly on what value you’re offering the world. This stands in stark contrast to the much more common passion mindset, which has you focus only on what value the world is offering you. Even with the craftsman mindset, however, becoming “so good they can’t ignore you” is not trivial. To help these efforts I introduced the well-studied concept of deliberate practice, an approach to work where you deliberately stretch your abilities beyond where you’re comfortable and then receive ruthless feedback on your performance.

So good they can’t ignore you why skills trump passion in the quest for work you love (Cal Newport)
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The point at which you have acquired enough career capital to get meaningful control over your working life is exactly the point when you’ve become valuable enough to your current employer that they will try to prevent you from making the change.

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The Law of Financial Viability When deciding whether to follow an appealing pursuit that will introduce more control into your work life, seek evidence of whether people are willing to pay for it. If you find this evidence, continue. If not, move on.

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Worry is not a sickness but a sign of health. If you are not worried, you are not risking enough.

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theory of motivation. Any drive that is somatically

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A philosophy has to be the sum of many ideas accumulated over a long period of time from a variety of sources. One cannot develop an effective philosophy without having been exposed to life’s lessons.

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The art of investment has one characteristic that is not generally appreciated. A creditable, if unspectacular, result can be achieved by the lay investor with a minimum of effort and capability; but to improve this easily attainable standard requires much application and more than a trace of wisdom.

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JOEL GREENBLATT: The idea is that agreeing with the broad consensus, while a very comfortable place for most people to be, is not generally where above-average profits are found.

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norm, and you have to be more right than the consensus.

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norm, and you have to be more right than the consensus.

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In theory there’s no difference between theory and practice, but in practice there is. YOGI BERRA

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Bottom line: Inefficiency is a necessary condition for superior investing. Attempting to outperform in a perfectly efficient market is like flipping a fair coin: the best you can hope for is fifty-fifty. For investors to get an edge, there have to be inefficiencies in the underlying process—imperfections, mispricings—to take advantage of.

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For investing to be reliably successful, an accurate estimate of intrinsic value is the indispensable starting point. Without it, any hope for consistent success as an investor is just that: hope.

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Thus, it seems to me, the choice isn’t really between value and growth, but between value today and value tomorrow. Growth investing represents a bet on company performance that may or may not materialize in the future, while value investing is based primarily on analysis of a company’s current worth.

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And as one of the greatest investment adages reminds us, “Being too far ahead of your time is indistinguishable from being wrong.”

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Brahman to speak harsh and angry words. But indignation

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Investing is a popularity contest, and the most dangerous thing is to buy something at the peak of its popularity. At that point, all favorable facts and opinions are already factored into its price, and no new buyers are left to emerge.

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Risk means more things can happen than will happen. ELROY DIMSON

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Markets set themselves up so that riskier assets appear to offer higher returns. If that weren’t the case, who would buy them?

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if both a U.S. Treasury note and small company stock appeared likely to return 7 percent per year, everyone would rush to buy the former (driving up its price and reducing its prospective return) and dump the latter (driving down its price and thus increasing its return). This process of adjusting relative prices, which economists call equilibration, is supposed to render prospective returns proportional to risk.

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It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.

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It’s impossible to assess the accuracy of probability estimates other than 0 and 100 except over a very large number of trials. “RISK,” JANUARY 19, 2006

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“There’s a big difference between probability and outcome. Probable things fail to happen—and improbable things happen—all the time.” That’s one of the most important things you can know about investment risk.

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Finally and importantly, most people view risk taking primarily as a way to make money. Bearing higher risk generally produces higher returns. The market has to set things up to look like that’ll be the case; if it didn’t, people wouldn’t make risky investments. But it can’t always work that way, or else risky investments wouldn’t be risky.

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HOWARD MARKS: The riskiest things: The greatest risk doesn’t come from low quality or high volatility. It comes from paying prices that are too high. This isn’t a theoretical risk; it’s very real.

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CHRISTOPHER DAVIS: A good analogy to this is the studies that show there are more traffic fatalities among drivers and passengers in SUVs than in compact cars despite SUVs’ being bigger and more sturdily built. Drivers of SUVs believe they’re not at risk in case of an accident, and this leads to riskier driving. The feeling of safety tends to increase risk while the awareness of risk tends to reduce it.

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The reality of risk is much less simple and straightforward than the perception. People vastly overestimate their ability to recognize risk and underestimate what it takes to avoid it; thus, they accept risk unknowingly and in so doing contribute to its creation.

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The ultimate irony lies in the fact that the reward for taking incremental risk shrinks as more people move to take it.

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The truth is, the herd is wrong about risk at least as often as it is about return. A broad consensus that something’s too hot to handle is almost always wrong. Usually it’s the opposite that’s true.

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This paradox exists because most investors think quality, as opposed to price, is the determinant of whether something’s risky. JOEL GREENBLATT: This thought process is pervasive among individual investors. For many, it is the fundamental flaw in their investment process.

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Bottom line: risk control is invisible in good times but still essential, since good times can so easily turn into bad times.

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The road to long-term investment success runs through risk control more than through aggressiveness. Over a full career, most investors’ results will be determined more by how many losers they have, and how bad they are, than by the greatness of their winners. Skillful risk control is the mark of the superior investor.

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However, there are two concepts we can hold to with confidence: • Rule number one: most things will prove to be cyclical. • Rule number two: some of the greatest opportunities for gain and loss come when other people forget rule number one.

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Cycles are self-correcting, and their reversal is not necessarily dependent on exogenous events. They reverse (rather than going on forever) because trends create the reasons for their own reversal. Thus, I like to say success carries within itself the seeds of failure, and failure the seeds of success. “YOU CAN’T PREDICT. YOU CAN PREPARE,” NOVEMBER 20, 2001

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Investors will overvalue companies when they’re doing well and undervalue them when things get difficult.

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To buy when others are despondently selling and to sell when others are euphorically buying takes the greatest courage, but provides the greatest profit. SIR JOHN TEMPLETON

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The error is clear. The herd applies optimism at the top and pessimism at the bottom. Thus, to benefit, we must be skeptical of the optimism that thrives at the top, and skeptical of the pessimism that prevails at the bottom. “TOUCHSTONES,” NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill (International Bestseller) : Author of Think and Grow Rich (International Bestseller) (Hill, Napoleon)
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such as that experienced by people who are persecuted.

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to trigger fevers strong enough to kill off their syphilis.

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which to profit from purchases made at its nadir.

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If the desire to make money causes you to buy even though price is too high, in the hope that the asset will continue appreciating or the tactic will keep working, you’re setting yourself up for disappointment. If you buy when price exceeds intrinsic value, you’ll have to be extremely lucky—the asset will have to go from overvalued to even more overvalued—in order to experience gain rather than loss.

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terms from investment theory. One is beta, a measure of a portfolio’s relative sensitivity to market movements. The other is alpha, which I define as personal investment skill, or the ability to generate performance that is unrelated to movement of the market.

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“superior investing” can be far from synonymous—see

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In order to stay up with the market when it does well, a portfolio has to incorporate good measures of beta and correlation with the market. But if we’re aided by beta and correlation on the way up, shouldn’t they be expected to hurt us on the way down? If we’re consistently able to decline less when the market declines and also participate fully when the market rises, this can be attributable to only one thing: alpha, or skill. That’s an example of value-added investing, and if demonstrated over a period of decades, it has to come from investment skill.

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the psychology of the investing herd moves in a regular, pendulum-like pattern—from optimism to pessimism; from credulousness to skepticism; from fear of missing opportunity to fear of losing money; and thus from eagerness to buy to urgency to sell. The swing of the pendulum causes the herd to buy at high prices and sell at low prices. Thus, being part of the herd is a formula for disaster, whereas contrarianism at the extremes will help to avert losses and lead eventually to success.

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Underpriced is far from synonymous with going up soon. Thus the importance of my second key adage: “Being too far ahead of your time is indistinguishable from being wrong.” It can require patience and fortitude to hold positions long enough to be proved right.

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“If we avoid the losers, the winners will take care of themselves,” has served well over the years. A diversified portfolio of investments, each of which is unlikely to produce significant loss, is a good start toward investment success.

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“Never forget the six-foot-tall man who drowned crossing the stream that was five feet deep on average.” Margin for error gives you staying power and gets you through the low spots.

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The higher the returns you expect, the higher is the margin of safety that you need to look for. Simply put, you should buy cheaper. But if your competition does not allow the price of the stocks you are eyeing to fall to levels where you are comfortable buying them, you need to start looking at other stocks.

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Identifying a cheap stock is easy; find why it won’t be cheap any longer

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Minimize risk by understanding the business SANJOY BHATTACHARYA: One of the best ways to identify riskiness is to look at the long-term volatility of cash flows.

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If you think about it, what are you paid for in investing? You are paid for your judgment, you are paid for your patience and finally for your honesty. Beyond that you are paid for nothing.

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Being patient in adversity is the ultimate test of the high-quality investor. To be able to deal with peer group pressure and ridicule is a great and invaluable education. To recognize that returns in investing are not linear and that they come in shorts bursts. This is what differentiates the men from the boys in investing.

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Being patient in adversity is the ultimate test of the high-quality investor. To be able to deal with peer group pressure and ridicule is a great and invaluable education. To recognize that returns in investing are not linear and that they come in shorts bursts. This is what differentiates the men from the boys in investing. In sum, investing is about character.

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sex in a threesome with another man, and they’ll wince.

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There’s an old proverb that has mutated a few times but the gist is this: If you want to keep getting what you’re getting, keep doing what you’re doing. The translation? STOP! If you aren’t wealthy, STOP doing what you’re doing. STOP following the conventional wisdom.

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Normal is not something to aspire to, it’s something to get away from. ~ Jodie Foster

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Your pursuit of wealth stalls when your focus is the road and its destination, and not the road trip. Sure, the Fastlane might open a rapid road to wealth, but a successful road trip will demand your respect for all of the trip’s vital tools. My

The Millionaire Fastlane (M_ (Z-Library) (MJ DeMarco)
Location 642-644 | Added on Monday, September 2, 2024 1:00:34 AM

Your pursuit of wealth stalls when your focus is the road and its destination, and not the road trip. Sure, the Fastlane might open a rapid road to wealth, but a successful road trip will demand your respect for all of the trip’s vital tools. My

The Millionaire Fastlane (M_ (Z-Library) (MJ DeMarco)
Location 642-643 | Added on Monday, September 2, 2024 1:00:38 AM

Your pursuit of wealth stalls when your focus is the road and its destination, and not the road trip. Sure, the Fastlane might open a rapid road to wealth, but a successful road trip will

The Millionaire Fastlane (M_ (Z-Library) (MJ DeMarco)
Location 642-644 | Added on Monday, September 2, 2024 1:00:42 AM

Your pursuit of wealth stalls when your focus is the road and its destination, and not the road trip. Sure, the Fastlane might open a rapid road to wealth, but a successful road trip will demand your respect for all of the trip’s vital tools.

The Millionaire Fastlane (M_ (Z-Library) (MJ DeMarco)
Location 677-677 | Added on Monday, September 2, 2024 1:33:10 AM

rehabilitation, the rejection of being cut from the junior varsity

The Millionaire Fastlane (M_ (Z-Library) (MJ DeMarco)
Location 1158-1161 | Added on Tuesday, September 3, 2024 9:30:59 PM

Lifestyle Servitude: The Trap of the Sidewalk Sidewalkers are engulfed in Lifestyle Servitude, where life is forced into a rat race, a constant tug-of-war between lifestyle extravagances and work, a self-perpetuating merry-go-round of work for income, income for lifestyle, and lifestyle for work. Wherever there’s Lifestyle Servitude, there’s a systematic erosion of freedom.

The Millionaire Fastlane (M_ (Z-Library) (MJ DeMarco)
Location 1228-1229 | Added on Tuesday, September 3, 2024 9:48:20 PM

I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. ~ Thomas Jefferson

The Millionaire Fastlane (M_ (Z-Library) (MJ DeMarco)
Location 1441-1445 | Added on Wednesday, September 4, 2024 8:35:06 AM

➡Hitchhikers assign control over their financial plans to others, which effectively introduces probabilities to victimhood. ➡The Law of Victims: You can’t be a victim if you don’t relinquish power to someone capable of making you a victim. ➡Responsibility owns your choices. ➡Taking responsibility is the first step to taking the driver’s seat of your life. Accountability is the final.

The Millionaire Fastlane (M_ (Z-Library) (MJ DeMarco)
Location 1817-1821 | Added on Saturday, September 7, 2024 8:56:14 AM

To accumulate financial wealth, you need to attract and earn a large sum of money, relative to the average person. To attract a large sum of money, two things are absolutely required: (1) Control (2) Leverage The Slowlane has neither and that truth is exposed when you reverse engineer the

The Millionaire Fastlane (M_ (Z-Library) (MJ DeMarco)
Location 1817-1820 | Added on Saturday, September 7, 2024 9:19:44 AM

To accumulate financial wealth, you need to attract and earn a large sum of money, relative to the average person. To attract a large sum of money, two things are absolutely required: (1) Control (2) Leverage The Slowlane has neither and

The Millionaire Fastlane (M_ (Z-Library) (MJ DeMarco)
Location 1817-1820 | Added on Saturday, September 7, 2024 9:19:55 AM

To accumulate financial wealth, you need to attract and earn a large sum of money, relative to the average person. To attract a large sum of money, two things are absolutely required: (1) Control (2) Leverage The Slowlane has neither

The Millionaire Fastlane (M_ (Z-Library) (MJ DeMarco)
Location 2587-2591 | Added on Sunday, September 8, 2024 8:26:23 AM

The Slowlane is a job: your hard work traded for your employer’s cash. Azur’s struggles resemble that of a Slowlaner; to get rich, you’re told to get stronger (spend money, return to school, and earn more in the job market) so you can lift heavier stones. The Fastlane is about building a better system, a better contraption, a better product, or a better “something” that will leverage your work. In the Slowlane, you are the source of heavy lifting, while in the Fastlane, you construct a system that does it for you.

The Millionaire Fastlane (M_ (Z-Library) (MJ DeMarco)
Location 2614-2618 | Added on Sunday, September 8, 2024 8:36:32 AM

Cracking the Code Decoding the Fastlane roadmap is as simple as joining the team that is custodian to the decryption key. The winning team is Team Producer. Reshape life’s focus on producing, not consuming. When you reframe your thinking from majority thinking (consumer) to minority thinking (producer), you effectively switch teams and allegiances.

The Millionaire Fastlane (M_ (Z-Library) (MJ DeMarco)
Location 2635-2636 | Added on Sunday, September 8, 2024 1:48:14 PM

To Consume Richly, Produce Effectively And the irony of this producer/consumer dichotomy? Once you succeed as a producer, you can consume anything you want with little consequence because you’ll be rich.

The Millionaire Fastlane (M_ (Z-Library) (MJ DeMarco)
Location 2686-2691 | Added on Monday, September 9, 2024 8:26:28 AM

The secret is to divorce yourself from the communist dictatorship of the Slowlane equation (ULL) and trade up to the free-wheeling libertarian—the Fastlane equation (CUL). Wealth = Net Profit + Asset Value Underneath this equation lies the true power of the Fastlane and how to build wealth fast. Its variables are controllable and unlimited. If you can manipulate the variables inherent to your wealth equation, you can get wealthy. Those variables are: Net Profit = Units Sold × Unit Profit

The Millionaire Fastlane (M_ (Z-Library) (MJ DeMarco)
Location 2686-2691 | Added on Monday, September 9, 2024 8:26:31 AM

The secret is to divorce yourself from the communist dictatorship of the Slowlane equation (ULL) and trade up to the free-wheeling libertarian—the Fastlane equation (CUL). Wealth = Net Profit + Asset Value Underneath this equation lies the true power of the Fastlane and how to build wealth fast. Its variables are controllable and unlimited. If you can manipulate the variables inherent to your wealth equation, you can get wealthy. Those variables are: Net Profit = Units Sold × Unit Profit

The Millionaire Fastlane (M_ (Z-Library) (MJ DeMarco)
Location 2686-2691 | Added on Monday, September 9, 2024 8:26:42 AM

The secret is to divorce yourself from the communist dictatorship of the Slowlane equation (ULL) and trade up to the free-wheeling libertarian—the Fastlane equation (CUL). Wealth = Net Profit + Asset Value Underneath this equation lies the true power of the Fastlane and how to build wealth fast. Its variables are controllable and unlimited. If you can manipulate the variables inherent to your wealth equation, you can get wealthy. Those variables are: Net Profit = Units Sold × Unit Profit

The Millionaire Fastlane (M_ (Z-Library) (MJ DeMarco)
Location 2693-2695 | Added on Monday, September 9, 2024 8:26:58 AM

Asset Value = Net Profit × Industry Multiple All business owners leverage this equation, in which [units sold] × [unit profit] determines net profit.

South vs North India’s great divide (Nilakantan… (Z-Library) (RS, Nilakantan)
Location 24-26 | Added on Friday, September 13, 2024 8:56:51 AM

South vs North India’s great divide (Nilakantan… (Z-Library) (RS, Nilakantan)
Location 732-734 | Added on Saturday, September 14, 2024 2:44:05 PM

Our ability to read, write and do arithmetic gives us the luxury of thinking better about our own lives and that of our fellow citizens. The transformative power of education is hard to overstate; it results in better health, increased happiness, greater material progress and a more stable society.

The Millionaire Fastlane (M_ (Z-Library) (MJ DeMarco)
Location 3029-3031 | Added on Sunday, September 15, 2024 8:29:35 PM

To divorce yourself from the Slowlane’s transactional relationship of “time for money,” you need to become a producer, specifically, a business owner. ➡Business systems break the bond between “your time for money” because they act like surrogate operatives for your time trade.

The Millionaire Fastlane (M_ (Z-Library) (MJ DeMarco)
Location 3188-3189 | Added on Tuesday, September 17, 2024 8:21:45 AM

The Law of Effection states that the more lives you affect in an entity you control, in scale and/or magnitude, the richer you will become. The shortened, sanitized version is simply: Affect millions and make millions.

The Millionaire Fastlane (M_ (Z-Library) (MJ DeMarco)
Location 3212-3214 | Added on Tuesday, September 17, 2024 8:27:18 AM

Scale creates millionaires. Magnitude creates millionaires. Scale and magnitude creates billionaires.

The Millionaire Fastlane (M_ (Z-Library) (MJ DeMarco)
Location 3231-3232 | Added on Saturday, September 21, 2024 7:48:50 AM

Effection of scale or magnitude always precedes money, either directly or indirectly. The more lives you impact, directly or indirectly, the more wealth you will attract.

The Millionaire Fastlane (M_ (Z-Library) (MJ DeMarco)
Location 3238-3241 | Added on Saturday, September 21, 2024 7:50:29 AM

If you want to get rich via intrinsic value, you must do it via the Law of Effection. Get into a position to impact millions. Become indispensable and irreplaceable like an athlete, entertainer, or a top-brass executive. Can’t get access to millions like an athlete? Then go directly to the source and serve the source.

The Millionaire Fastlane (M_ (Z-Library) (MJ DeMarco)
Location 3352-3352 | Added on Thursday, September 26, 2024 7:47:37 AM

The leading cause of poorness is poor choices.

The Millionaire Fastlane (M_ (Z-Library) (MJ DeMarco)
Location 3592-3595 | Added on Friday, September 27, 2024 9:05:43 AM

You start making better choices using two strategies dependent on the decision’s gravity. (1)Worse Case Consequence Analysis (WCCA) (2)Weighted Average Decision Matrix (WADM)

Does it matter essays on mans relation to mate… (Z-Library) (Alan W. Watts)
Location 50-52 | Added on Saturday, October 5, 2024 8:55:40 PM

If I talk all the time I am not open to what anyone else has to say. Likewise, if I think (or talk to myself ) all the time, I have nothing to think about except thoughts. I have less and less awareness of the world, the system of vibrations, which words and thoughts represent.

Does it matter essays on mans relation to mate… (Z-Library) (Alan W. Watts)
Location 79-80 | Added on Saturday, October 5, 2024 9:06:40 PM

We need to become vividly aware of our ecology, of our interdependence and virtual identity with all other forms of life which the divisive and emboxing methods of our current way of thought prevent us from experiencing.

Does it matter essays on mans relation to mate… (Z-Library) (Alan W. Watts)
Location 231-232 | Added on Saturday, October 5, 2024 9:51:33 PM

It is feared that affluence plus leisure will, as in times past, lead to routs and orgies and all the perversities that flow therefrom, and then on to satiation, debilitation, and decay— as in Hogarth’s depiction of A Rake’s Progress.

Does it matter essays on mans relation to mate… (Z-Library) (Alan W. Watts)
Location 239-240 | Added on Saturday, October 5, 2024 9:58:18 PM

The moral challenge and the grim problem we face is that the life of affluence and pleasure requires exact discipline and high imagination.

The Millionaire Fastlane (M_ (Z-Library) (MJ DeMarco)
Location 3857-3859 | Added on Saturday, October 12, 2024 10:33:20 PM

The irony of financial fortune is that no matter how much you have, you’ll die flat broke. You cannot escape time’s continual combustion as your tank bleeds away every second. You can live in blissful happiness or in a miserable depression—time is indifferent and it just drips away. Since time is scarce, wouldn’t it make sense not to waste 3 hours of your life for a $6 bucket of chicken?

The Millionaire Fastlane (M_ (Z-Library) (MJ DeMarco)
Location 3857-3859 | Added on Sunday, October 13, 2024 9:43:05 PM

The irony of financial fortune is that no matter how much you have, you’ll die flat broke. You cannot escape time’s continual combustion as your tank bleeds away every second. You can live in blissful happiness or in a miserable depression—time is indifferent and it just drips away.

The Millionaire Fastlane (M_ (Z-Library) (MJ DeMarco)
Location 3860-3862 | Added on Sunday, October 13, 2024 9:50:06 PM

Indentured Time Is the Ransom of Free Time There are two types of time that will make up your lifespan: Your free time and your indentured time. Your Lifespan = Free Time + Indentured Time

The Millionaire Fastlane (M_ (Z-Library) (MJ DeMarco)
Location 3910-3912 | Added on Sunday, October 13, 2024 9:58:47 PM

The Law of Chocolate Chip Cookies When I first moved out on my own, I quickly learned the Law of Chocolate Chip Cookies: If the cookies don’t get into the grocery cart, they don’t get home. And if they don’t get home, they don’t get in my mouth. And if they don’t get in my mouth, they don’t transform into belly fat.

Skin In The Game Hidden Asymmetries In Daily Li… (Z-Library) (Nassim Nicholas Taleb)
Location 4149-4151 | Added on Monday, October 14, 2024 11:25:49 PM

If humans were immortals, they would go extinct from an accident, or from a gradual buildup of misfitness. But shorter shelf life for humans allows genetic changes across generations to be in sync with the variability of the environment.

The Upside of Irrationality The Unexpected Bene… (Z-Library) (Dan Ariely)
Location 252-255 | Added on Tuesday, October 15, 2024 1:14:17 AM

incentives can be a double-edged sword. Up to a certain point, they motivate us to learn and perform well. But beyond that point, motivational pressure can be so high that it actually distracts an individual from concentrating on and carrying out a task—an undesirable outcome for anyone.

The Upside of Irrationality The Unexpected Bene… (Z-Library) (Dan Ariely)
Location 2645-2646 | Added on Tuesday, October 15, 2024 8:30:05 AM

scholarly type, he could not suddenly become a barfly.

The Molecule of More How a Single Chemical in Y… (Z-Library) (Daniel Z. Lieberman)
Location 1107-1109 | Added on Saturday, October 26, 2024 1:50:09 PM

It’s natural to confuse wanting and liking. It seems obvious that we would want the things that we will like having. That’s how it would work if we were rational creatures, and despite all evidence to the contrary, we persist in thinking that we are rational creatures.

The Molecule of More How a Single Chemical in Y… (Z-Library) (Daniel Z. Lieberman)
Location 1107-1109 | Added on Saturday, October 26, 2024 1:50:16 PM

It’s natural to confuse wanting and liking. It seems obvious that we would want the things that we will like having. That’s how it would work if we were rational creatures, and despite all evidence to the contrary, we persist in thinking that we are rational creatures. But we’re

The Molecule of More How a Single Chemical in Y… (Z-Library) (Daniel Z. Lieberman)
Location 1107-1109 | Added on Saturday, October 26, 2024 1:50:24 PM

It’s natural to confuse wanting and liking. It seems obvious that we would want the things that we will like having. That’s how it would work if we were rational creatures, and despite all evidence to the contrary, we persist in thinking that we are rational creatures. But we’re

The Molecule of More How a Single Chemical in Y… (Z-Library) (Daniel Z. Lieberman)
Location 1107-1109 | Added on Saturday, October 26, 2024 1:50:30 PM

It’s natural to confuse wanting and liking. It seems obvious that we would want the things that we will like having. That’s how it would work if we were rational creatures, and despite all evidence to the contrary, we persist in thinking that we are rational creatures. But we’re

The Molecule of More How a Single Chemical in Y… (Z-Library) (Daniel Z. Lieberman)
Location 1107-1109 | Added on Saturday, October 26, 2024 1:50:39 PM

It’s natural to confuse wanting and liking. It seems obvious that we would want the things that we will like having. That’s how it would work if we were rational creatures, and despite all evidence to the contrary, we persist in thinking that we are rational creatures. But we’re

The Molecule of More How a Single Chemical in Y… (Z-Library) (Daniel Z. Lieberman)
Location 1107-1109 | Added on Saturday, October 26, 2024 1:50:49 PM

It’s natural to confuse wanting and liking. It seems obvious that we would want the things that we will like having. That’s how it would work if we were rational creatures, and despite all evidence to the contrary, we persist in thinking that we are rational creatures.

Who will Cry When You Die Robin Sharma (Phani)
Location 2-3 | Added on Saturday, October 26, 2024 5:39:46 PM

THE TRAGEDY OF LIFE IS NOT DEATH, BUT WHAT WE LET DIE INSIDE OF US WHILE WE LIVE. - NORMAN COUSINS

Who will Cry When You Die Robin Sharma (Phani)
Location 248-250 | Added on Thursday, November 14, 2024 8:28:22 AM

While I believe that hard work is essential to a life of real success and fulfillment, I think that being filled with a deep sense of inspiration and commitment to making a difference in the world is an even more important attribute.

Who will Cry When You Die Robin Sharma (Phani)
Location 375-376 | Added on Friday, November 15, 2024 9:57:33 PM

The real secret to a life of abundance is to stop spending your days searching for security and start spending your time pursuing opportunity.

The Molecule of More How a Single Chemical in Y… (Z-Library) (Daniel Z. Lieberman)
Location 2466-2469 | Added on Monday, November 18, 2024 9:11:21 PM

The Molecule of More How a Single Chemical in Y… (Z-Library) (Daniel Z. Lieberman)
Location 2533-2535 | Added on Monday, November 18, 2024 9:18:58 PM

Dopamine gives us the power to create. It allows us to imagine the unreal and connect the seemingly unrelated. It allows us to build mental models of the world that transcend mere physical description, moving beyond sensory impressions to uncover the deeper meaning of what we experience.

The Molecule of More How a Single Chemical in Y… (Z-Library) (Daniel Z. Lieberman)
Location 3614-3616 | Added on Tuesday, November 19, 2024 11:16:48 PM

Another obvious doomsday scenario involves dopamine driving us on to greater and greater consumption until we destroy the planet. Climate change accelerated by industrial activity is a major focus of countries around the world that fear devastating consequences, including drought, floods, and violent competition for diminishing resources.

The Molecule of More How a Single Chemical in Y… (Z-Library) (Daniel Z. Lieberman)
Location 3595-3596 | Added on Tuesday, November 19, 2024 11:17:25 PM

When the human race lived in scarcity and on the brink of extinction, the drive for more kept us alive. Dopamine was the engine of progress. It helped lift our evolutionary ancestors out of subsistence living.

The Molecule of More How a Single Chemical in Y… (Z-Library) (Daniel Z. Lieberman)
Location 3600-3603 | Added on Tuesday, November 19, 2024 11:18:55 PM

Our brains evolved at a time when survival was in doubt. That’s less of a problem in the modern world, but we’re stuck with our ancient brains. It’s possible that we won’t last beyond another half-dozen generations. We’ve simply become too good at gratifying our dopaminergic desires: not all forms of more and new and novel are good for an individual, and the same is true for a species.

The Molecule of More How a Single Chemical in Y… (Z-Library) (Daniel Z. Lieberman)
Location 3600-3603 | Added on Tuesday, November 19, 2024 11:19:04 PM

Technology develops fast while evolution is slow. Our brains evolved at a time when survival was in doubt. That’s less of a problem in the modern world, but we’re stuck with our ancient brains. It’s possible that we won’t last beyond another half-dozen generations. We’ve simply become too good at gratifying our dopaminergic desires: not all forms of more and new and novel are good for an individual, and the same is true for a species.

Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned (Kenneth O. Sta… (Z-Library) (Kenneth O. Stanley)
Location 143-144 | Added on Saturday, November 30, 2024 9:42:10 PM

There’s a lot our culture has sacrificed in the name of objectives, and we’re going to take it back. They’ve stolen our freedom to explore creatively and blocked us from serendipitous discovery.

Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned (Kenneth O. Sta… (Z-Library) (Kenneth O. Stanley)
Location 145-147 | Added on Saturday, November 30, 2024 9:43:24 PM

great discoveries are lurking just beyond our fingertips, if only we can let go of the security blanket of the objective. Sometimes, the best way to change the world is to stop trying to change it—perhaps you’ve noticed that your best ideas are often those you were not seeking.

Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned (Kenneth O. Sta… (Z-Library) (Kenneth O. Stanley)
Location 257-260 | Added on Saturday, November 30, 2024 10:41:24 PM

Objectives are well and good when they are sufficiently modest, but things get a lot more complicated when they’re more ambitious. In fact, objectives actually become obstacles towards more exciting achievements, like those involving discovery, creativity, invention, or innovation—or even achieving true happiness. In other words (and here is the paradox), the greatest achievements become less likely when they are made objectives.

Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned (Kenneth O. Sta… (Z-Library) (Kenneth O. Stanley)
Location 323-324 | Added on Sunday, December 1, 2024 4:18:43 PM

Sometimes the best way to achieve something great is to stop trying to achieve a particular great thing. In other words, greatness is possible if you are willing to stop demanding what that greatness should be.

Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned (Kenneth O. Sta… (Z-Library) (Kenneth O. Stanley)
Location 518-521 | Added on Wednesday, December 11, 2024 8:57:50 PM

Whether you’re looking for a career, for love, or trying to start companies, there is ample evidence that sticking to objectives just isn’t part of the story in many of the biggest successes. Instead, in those successes there is a willingness to serve serendipity and to follow passions or whims to their logical conclusions

Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned (Kenneth O. Sta… (Z-Library) (Kenneth O. Stanley)
Location 770-770 | Added on Saturday, December 14, 2024 6:02:57 PM

work to drive achievement. If the objective is deceptive,

Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned (Kenneth O. Sta… (Z-Library) (Kenneth O. Stanley)
Location 770-770 | Added on Saturday, December 14, 2024 6:03:00 PM

work to drive achievement. If the objective is deceptive,

The Molecule of More How a Single Chemical in Y… (Z-Library) (Daniel Z. Lieberman)
Location 3901-3901 | Added on Sunday, December 22, 2024 11:38:13 PM

creation is the most durable of the dopaminergic pleasures.

The Molecule of More How a Single Chemical in Y… (Z-Library) (Daniel Z. Lieberman)
Location 3900-3901 | Added on Sunday, December 22, 2024 11:38:39 PM

Creating something new, something that has never been conceived of before is, by definition, surprising. Because it is always new, creation is the most durable of the dopaminergic pleasures.

The Molecule of More How a Single Chemical in Y… (Z-Library) (Daniel Z. Lieberman)
Location 3956-3958 | Added on Sunday, December 22, 2024 11:55:31 PM

We have to overcome the seduction of endless dopaminergic stimulation and turn our backs on our never-ending hunger for more. If we are able to intermingle dopamine with H&N, we can achieve that harmony.

The Molecule of More How a Single Chemical in Y… (Z-Library) (Daniel Z. Lieberman)
Location 3956-3959 | Added on Sunday, December 22, 2024 11:55:42 PM

We have to overcome the seduction of endless dopaminergic stimulation and turn our backs on our never-ending hunger for more. If we are able to intermingle dopamine with H&N, we can achieve that harmony. All dopamine all the time is not the path to the best possible future. It’s sensory reality and abstract thought working together that unlocks the brain’s full potential.

The Molecule of More How a Single Chemical in Y… (Z-Library) (Daniel Z. Lieberman)
Location 937-939 | Added on Monday, December 23, 2024 9:22:55 PM

Liking involves different circuits in the brain, and uses the H&N chemicals, not dopamine, to send messages. In particular, liking relies on the same chemicals that promote the long-term satisfaction of companionate love: endorphins and endocannabinoids.

Spellbound Modern Science,_ (Z-Library)-1 (Daniel Z. Lieberman, MD)
Location 211-212 | Added on Wednesday, December 25, 2024 11:24:04 AM

We believe that we are masters in our own house only because we like to flatter ourselves. In reality we are dependent to a startling degree on the proper functioning of the unconscious psyche, and must trust that it does not fail us.

Spellbound Modern Science,_ (Z-Library)-1 (Daniel Z. Lieberman, MD)
Location 288-291 | Added on Wednesday, December 25, 2024 11:51:44 AM

When you’re fascinated by your work, your unconscious is delivering energy, emotion, and other mental resources. Time flies by. Each day you look forward to getting started, and the work brings out the best in you. On the other hand, when you’re doing something just because you have to, you lack unconscious support. All you have is the best efforts of the ego.

11 Rules For Life Secrets to Level Up (Chetan… (Z-Library) (Bhagat, Chetan)
Location 288-290 | Added on Sunday, December 29, 2024 5:24:26 PM

There’s pain in progress, but there’s pain in stagnation and decline too. It’s hard to do well, but it’s equally hard to live a life of failure. Choose your pain and choose your hard.

11 Rules For Life Secrets to Level Up (Chetan… (Z-Library) (Bhagat, Chetan)
Location 874-875 | Added on Sunday, December 29, 2024 8:16:29 PM

How you set the boundaries of what is okay with you and what is not will ultimately signal to others to respect you and your needs. They will still get what they want, just not at the cost of your needs.

11 Rules For Life Secrets to Level Up (Chetan… (Z-Library) (Bhagat, Chetan)
Location 1485-1487 | Added on Monday, December 30, 2024 8:46:23 AM

Find your one big, juicy elephant. Don’t be scared by its size. Break it down into hundreds of little pieces. Eat a single piece at a time, over months and years. Enjoy the adventure. Stick to it, and you will get done eventually. Success will inevitably come your way.

11 Rules For Life Secrets to Level Up (Chetan… (Z-Library) (Bhagat, Chetan)
Location 1488-1491 | Added on Monday, December 30, 2024 8:46:51 AM

Find your one big, juicy elephant. Don’t be scared by its size. Break it down into hundreds of little pieces. Eat a single piece at a time, over months and years. Enjoy the adventure. Stick to it, and you will get done eventually. Success will inevitably come your way. Everyone around you will be shocked and amazed at how you did it. Some will call you superhuman and a genius.

11 Rules For Life Secrets to Level Up (Chetan… (Z-Library) (Bhagat, Chetan)
Location 1488-1491 | Added on Monday, December 30, 2024 8:46:57 AM

Find your one big, juicy elephant. Don’t be scared by its size. Break it down into hundreds of little pieces. Eat a single piece at a time, over months and years. Enjoy the adventure. Stick to it, and you will get done eventually. Success will inevitably come your way. Everyone around you will be shocked and amazed at how you did it. Some will call you superhuman and a genius. Whereas all you did was, piece by piece, eat your big elephant.

11 Rules For Life Secrets to Level Up (Chetan… (Z-Library) (Bhagat, Chetan)
Location 1737-1739 | Added on Monday, December 30, 2024 10:45:12 AM

Whenever presented with options in life involving status quo or change, lean towards change. Over time, change won’t scare you as much. Eventually, you will become as adaptive as a cockroach. Like a cockroach, you will also become chill about change and say, ‘Things are changing? Great, bring it on. I will adjust!’

The Fund Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and… (Z-Library) (Rob Copeland)
Location 565-565 | Added on Saturday, January 4, 2025 12:43:58 AM

assigned the dancer to turn the pages.

Be Slightly Evil A Playbook for Sociopaths (Rib… (Z-Library) (Venkatesh Rao)
Location 99-100 | Added on Wednesday, February 12, 2025 8:45:10 AM

best as we can tell, the universe is not a benign

Be Slightly Evil A Playbook for Sociopaths (Rib… (Z-Library) (Venkatesh Rao)
Location 108-111 | Added on Wednesday, February 12, 2025 8:53:28 AM

the biggest deep idea behind Be Slightly Evil is thermodynamics. I am endlessly fascinated by the idea of entropy. It suggests that not only is the universe indifferent to our presence, it is at least mildly hostile to it. We are low-entropy creatures trying hopelessly to swim upstream in a universe that’s gradually winding down towards a maximum-entropy heat death. So the universe itself is, in a sense, Slightly Evil.

Principles Life and Work (Ray Dalio) (Z-Library) (Dalio, Ray)
Location 67-68 | Added on Friday, February 14, 2025 9:11:01 PM

you want to do with them. Principles

Principles Life and Work (Ray Dalio) (Z-Library) (Dalio, Ray)
Location 67-69 | Added on Friday, February 14, 2025 9:11:15 PM

Principles are fundamental truths that serve as the foundations for behavior that gets you what you want out of life. They can be applied again and again in similar situations to help you achieve your goals.

Principles Life and Work (Ray Dalio) (Z-Library) (Dalio, Ray)
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Principles are fundamental truths that serve as the foundations for behavior that gets you what you want out of life. They can be applied again and again in similar situations to help you achieve your goals. Every day, each of us is faced with a blizzard of situations we must respond to. Without principles we would be forced to react to all the things life throws at us individually, as if we were experiencing each of them for

Principles Life and Work (Ray Dalio) (Z-Library) (Dalio, Ray)
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Principles are fundamental truths that serve as the foundations for behavior that gets you what you want out of life. They can be applied again and again in similar situations to help you achieve your goals. Every day, each of us is faced with a blizzard of situations we must respond to. Without principles we would be forced to react to all the things life throws at us individually, as if we were experiencing each of them for the first time.

Principles Life and Work (Ray Dalio) (Z-Library) (Dalio, Ray)
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Principles are fundamental truths that serve as the foundations for behavior that gets you what you want out of life. They can be applied again and again in similar situations to help you achieve your goals. Every day, each of us is faced with a blizzard of situations we must respond to. Without principles we would be forced to react to all the things life throws at us individually, as if we were experiencing each of them for the first time. If instead we classify these situations into types and have good principles for dealing with them, we will make better decisions more quickly and have better lives as a result. Having a good set of principles is like having a good collection of recipes for success.

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to our door, and I dug into every one of them.

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When the Beatles visited India in 1968 to study

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I learned a great fear of being wrong that shifted my mind-set from thinking “I’m right” to asking myself “How do I know I’m right?” And I saw clearly that the best way to answer this question is by finding other independent thinkers who are on the same mission as me and who see things differently from me. By engaging them in thoughtful disagreement, I’d be able to understand their reasoning and have them stress-test mine. That way, we can all raise our probability of being right. In other words, I just want to be right—I don’t care if the right answer comes from me. So I learned to be radically open-minded to allow others to point out what I might be missing. I saw that the only way I could succeed would be to: 1. Seek out the smartest people who disagreed with me so I could try to understand their reasoning. 2. Know when not to have an opinion. 3. Develop, test, and systemize timeless and universal principles. 4. Balance risks in ways that keep the big upside while reducing the downside.

The Golden Road (Dalrymple, William)
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empire of at least fifty-five million sesterces

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nearly all cooperative enterprises involve at least some tension between self-interest and collective interest, between Me and Us. And thus, nearly all cooperative enterprises are in danger of eroding, like the commons in Hardin’s parable.

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Morality is nature’s solution to the problem of cooperation within groups, enabling individuals with competing interests to live together and prosper. What we in the modern world need, then, is something like morality but one level up.

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Morality is nature’s solution to the problem of cooperation within groups, enabling individuals with competing interests to live together and prosper. What we in the modern world need, then, is something like morality but one level up.

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Morality is nature’s solution to the problem of cooperation within groups, enabling individuals with competing interests to live together and prosper. What we in the modern world need, then, is something like morality but one level

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Morality is nature’s solution to the problem of cooperation within groups, enabling individuals with competing interests to live together and prosper. What we in the modern world need, then, is something like morality but one level up.

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Morality is nature’s solution to the problem of cooperation within groups, enabling individuals with competing interests to live together and prosper. What we in the modern world need, then, is something like morality but one level

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Morality is nature’s solution to the problem of cooperation within groups, enabling individuals with competing interests to live together and prosper. What we in the modern world need, then, is something like morality but one level up. We need a kind of thinking that enables groups with conflicting moralities to live together and prosper.

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Morality is nature’s solution to the problem of cooperation within groups, enabling individuals with competing interests to live together and prosper. What we in the modern world need, then, is something like morality but one level up. We need a kind of thinking that enables groups with conflicting moralities to live together and prosper. In other words, we need a metamorality.

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deliberate practice remains the gold standard for anyone in any field who wishes to take advantage of the gift of adaptability in order to build new skills and abilities, and it is the main concern of this book.

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the literature are so general that they could never be refuted.

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literature are so general that they could never be refuted.

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The reason that most people don’t possess these extraordinary physical capabilities isn’t because they don’t have the capacity for them, but rather because they’re satisfied to live in the comfortable rut of homeostasis and never do the work that is required to get out of it. They live in the world of “good enough.”

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Systematic curiosity provides an unshakable certitude in your ability to grow even when the exact path forward is uncertain, with the knowledge that your actions can align with your most authentic ambitions.

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It shows that when you lean into your curiosity, uncertainty can be a state of expanded possibility, a space for metamorphosis. It’s a way to turn challenges into triggers for self-discovery and doubt into a source of opportunity.

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Amelia Earhart once said: “The most difficult thing is the decision to act.” Though we may not have all the information at hand, we can choose movement instead of stagnation, exploration instead of paralysis. And when we do, the sky is just the beginning. This is the promise of an experimental mindset. Three Mental Shifts How can you go from rigid linearity to fluid experimentation? Throughout this book, you will build a toolkit to support three profound

Tiny Experiments How to Liv_ (Z-Library) (Anne-Laure Le Cunff)
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Amelia Earhart once said: “The most difficult thing is the decision to act.” Though we may not have all the information at hand, we can choose movement instead of stagnation, exploration instead of paralysis. And when we do, the sky is just the beginning. This is the promise of an experimental mindset.

Tiny Experiments How to Liv_ (Z-Library) (Anne-Laure Le Cunff)
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Let’s be honest: Nobody really wants to live a productive life. We want to express ourselves, connect with others, and explore the world. Productivity is just a means to those ends; it should certainly not come at the expense of actually living life. Fortunately, while toxic productivity is dangerously seductive, there is a way to recover. It will require you to—at least temporarily—throw out your calendars, your timers, and your to-do lists, and instead embrace a more fulfilling way to orient toward time.

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toxic form of productivity becomes a hidden motive that influences our choices and actions, pushing us toward constant output while downplaying the value of rest, reflection, and meaningful engagement.

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simple idea, that making the most of our time isn’t about doing more but about being more: more present, more engaged, and more attuned to the quality of our experiences.

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Studies have found that adverse psychological reactions such as anxiety and shame often accompany procrastination. No surprise, given that we have been taught to equate procrastination with being worthless. “There is nothing like the downward spiral of procrastination to make you feel like an abject failure,” said Dr. Tim Pychyl,

Tiny Experiments How to Liv_ (Z-Library) (Anne-Laure Le Cunff)
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Studies have found that adverse psychological reactions such as anxiety and shame often accompany procrastination. No surprise, given that we have been taught to equate procrastination with being worthless. “There is nothing like the downward spiral of procrastination to make you feel like an abject failure,” said Dr. Tim Pychyl, one of the world’s foremost experts on

Tiny Experiments How to Liv_ (Z-Library) (Anne-Laure Le Cunff)
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Studies have found that adverse psychological reactions such as anxiety and shame often accompany procrastination. No surprise, given that we have been taught to equate procrastination with being worthless. “There is nothing like the downward spiral of procrastination to make you feel like an abject failure,” said Dr. Tim Pychyl, one of the world’s foremost experts on procrastination. “That’s why the strongest emotion associated with procrastination is guilt.”

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If you choose to ask these questions in a nonjudgmental way and interpret the answer constructively, procrastination can be a helpful indicator, shifting your internal monologue from self-blame to self-discovery.

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Rather than being an indication of laziness or lack of discipline, procrastination points to nuanced psychological roadblocks that need addressing.

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Jankowski said.11 “Everything has to have a

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Whiteboarding forces people to be both rigorous and transparent. It requires them to start from scratch every time they step up to the board, and therefore to lay out their thinking as thoroughly and clearly as possible. It becomes immediately apparent when someone hasn’t thought something through or bases their logic on faulty assumptions, unlike with a slide deck, where you can hide incomplete thoughts in pretty formatting and misleading text. At the whiteboard, there is no place to hide. And when you finish, no matter how brilliant your thoughts are, you must always wipe them away and start anew.

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its power-efficient chip-architecture designs, well suited for mobile devices,

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its power-efficient chip-architecture designs, well suited for mobile devices,

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its power-efficient chip-architecture designs, well suited for mobile devices,

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its power-efficient chip-architecture designs, well suited for mobile devices, to semiconductor companies and hardware

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its power-efficient chip-architecture designs, well suited for mobile devices, to semiconductor companies and hardware

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extended period of time,” read Starboard’s letter.

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quarter in early 2020 in which Mellanox reported

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to the company. The type of person who jockeys

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making progress requires two essential components: trial and error. The trial part of the loop involves taking action with limited information; it requires a willingness to step into the unknown and explore possibilities. The error part involves observing the results and making adjustments based on that data. If you don’t do both, you don’t grow. As Nassim Taleb has put it, in complex systems—“ones in which we have little visibility of the chains of cause-consequences”—trial and error beats a linear approach designed for a specific target.

Tiny Experiments How to Liv_ (Z-Library) (Anne-Laure Le Cunff)
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making progress requires two essential components: trial and error. The trial part of the loop involves taking action with limited information; it requires a willingness to step into the unknown and explore possibilities. The error part involves observing the results and making adjustments based on that data. If you don’t do both, you don’t grow. As

Tiny Experiments How to Liv_ (Z-Library) (Anne-Laure Le Cunff)
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making progress requires two essential components: trial and error. The trial part of the loop involves taking action with limited information; it requires a willingness to step into the unknown and explore possibilities. The error part involves observing the results and making adjustments based on that data. If you don’t do both, you don’t grow.

Tiny Experiments How to Liv_ (Z-Library) (Anne-Laure Le Cunff)
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research shows that, without metacognition, we are often unaware of the factors influencing our own choices and behaviors. In the absence of this internal discourse, we don’t pay enough attention to extrapolate our experience into the future, and the wheel of trial and error doesn’t lead to improvement.

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The world of the past few decades has been the best it will ever be in our lifetime. Instead of cheap and better and faster, we’re rapidly transitioning into a world that’s pricier and worse and slower. Because the world—our world—is breaking apart.

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it takes about twelve times as much energy to move things on land as compared to water.

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Too often, we get caught up efficiently doing ineffective things, focusing solely on the work that will get us through the day. The idea isn’t to find oneself another environment tomorrow—be it a new job or a new economy—but to be constantly creating the environment and community you want for yourself, no matter what may occur. Creating

Never Eat Alone _ And Other Secrets to Suc - Ferrazzi, Keith; Raz, Tahl (Ferrazzi, Keith)
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Too often, we get caught up efficiently doing ineffective things, focusing solely on the work that will get us through the day. The idea isn’t to find oneself another environment tomorrow—be it a new job or a new economy—but to be constantly creating the environment and community you want for

Never Eat Alone _ And Other Secrets to Suc - Ferrazzi, Keith; Raz, Tahl (Ferrazzi, Keith)
Location 744-746 | Added on Monday, May 19, 2025 10:24:24 PM

Too often, we get caught up efficiently doing ineffective things, focusing solely on the work that will get us through the day. The idea isn’t to find oneself another environment tomorrow—be it a new job or a new economy—but to be constantly creating the environment and community you want for yourself, no matter what may occur.

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At each stage, we pulled a bit of labor out of agriculture and into new industries that managed, leveraged, or improved the very agriculture the labor had originally come from. The steadily increasing levels of labor specialization and urbanization first gave us towns, then city-states, then kingdoms, and eventually empires.

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The only countries in a post-2022 world that might be able to maintain an overseas empire are those that can have three things going for them: a serious cultural superiority complex, a military capable of reliably projecting power onto locations that cannot effectively resist, and lots and lots and lots and LOTS of disposable young people.

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The Industrial Revolution came for water transport as well. It just took a bit longer, for a couple of semi-obvious technical reasons. First, the steam engine was invented well before steel became available in large quantities. The early steamships were still made of wood. Steam engines ran on coal. Coal burns at over 3,000 degrees. It doesn’t take a doctorate in chemistry to understand the complication. Second, coal burns and then it is gone, while the

The Creative Act A Way of Being (Rick Rubin) (Z-Library) (Rick Rubin)
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The best artists tend to be the ones with the most sensitive antennae to draw in the energy resonating at a particular moment.

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The best artists tend to be the ones with the most sensitive antennae to draw in the energy resonating at a particular moment. Many great artists first develop sensitive antennae not to create art but to protect themselves. They have to protect themselves because everything hurts more. They feel everything more deeply.

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How do we pick up on a signal that can neither be heard nor be defined? The answer is not to look for it. Nor do we attempt to predict or analyze our way into it. Instead, we create an open space that allows it. A space so free of the normal overpacked condition of our minds that it functions as a vacuum. Drawing down the ideas that the universe is making available.

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Artists who are able to continually create great works throughout their lives often manage to preserve these childlike qualities. Practicing a way of being that allows you to see the world through uncorrupted, innocent eyes can free you to act in concert with the universe’s timetable. There’s a time for certain ideas to arrive, and they find a way to express themselves through us.

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imperfections are what makes each of us and our work interesting. We create pieces reflective of who we are, and if insecurity is part of who we are, then our work will have a greater degree of truth in it as a result.

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Realizing you are fortunate to be in a position that allows you to create, and in some cases get paid to do what you love, might tip the balance in favor of the work. Ultimately, your desire to create must be greater than your fear of it.

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conventions of their time, but the ones who transcend

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For every rule followed, examine the possibility that the opposite might be similarly interesting. Not necessarily better, just different.

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Listening without prejudice is how we grow and learn as people. More often than not, there are no right answers, just different perspectives. The more perspectives we can learn to see, the greater our understanding becomes. Our filter can begin to more accurately approach what truly is, rather than a narrow sliver interpreted through our bias.

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Our continual quest for efficiency discourages looking too deeply. The pressure to deliver doesn’t grant us time to consider all possibilities. Yet it’s through deliberate action and repetition that we gain deeper insight.

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Time is something that we have no control over. So patience begins with acceptance of natural rhythms. The implied benefit of impatience is to save time by speeding up and skipping ahead of those rhythms. Paradoxically, this ends up taking more time and using more energy. It’s wasted effort.

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If there is a rule to creativity that’s less breakable than the others, it’s that the need for patience is ever-present.

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science has yet to catch up with. These childlike

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childlike superpowers include being in the moment, valuing play above all else, having no regard for consequences, being radically honest without consideration, and having the ability to freely move from one emotion to the next without holding on to story. For children, each moment in time is all there is. No future, no past. I want it now, I’m hungry, I’m tired. All pure authenticity.

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If you know what you want to do and you do it, that’s the work of a craftsman. If you begin with a question and use it to guide an adventure of discovery, that’s the work of the artist. The surprises along the way can expand your work, and even the art form itself.

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Failure is the information you need to get where you’re going.

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The ecstatic is our compass, pointing to our true north. It arises genuinely in the process of creation. You’re working and struggling, and suddenly you notice a shift. A revelation. A small tweak is made, a new angle is revealed, and it takes your breath away.

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India’s problem is that it might be a bit too varied and too heavily populated. India is not an ethnically defined nation-state like China or Vietnam or France or Poland, in which one group dominates the population and the government, but instead boasts more ethnic and linguistic diversity than any continent save Africa.

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compassion turned inward. When we’re self-compassionate,

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To figure out which economies are most vulnerable to aging, compare the number of working-age people to the number of people who are older than 64 or younger than 15—also known as the “dependency ratio.” When the dependency ratio is rising, fewer workers are available to support the growing number of retirees, and growth suffers.

Gods, Guns and Missionaries The Making of the M… (Z-Library) (Manu S. Pillai)
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No matter which way he looked, van Linschoten saw in Hindu gods the very creatures Christian mythology warned the faithful to beware. To Indians, of course, these images were ‘visual theologies’ and ‘visual scriptures’, 48 but, made of black stone and housed in dark sanctums, outsiders conjured up unpleasant associations.

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decisions made very quickly can be every bit as good as decisions made cautiously and deliberately.

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The worst are in real estate, which often rings up crippling debts; and commodities, which often have a corrupting influence on the economy and society. Although a case can be made that services will come to rival manufacturing as a catalyst for sustained growth, that day has yet to arrive. For now, the best investment binges are still focused on manufacturing and technology.

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In both Asia and Europe, as confidence in the new fixed currencies spread, banks lowered borrowing costs, and locals started borrowing heavily to shop, build houses, and start businesses. This spending drove current accounts into the red, stirring fears about whether these countries could pay their mounting debts.

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If the government tries to artificially cheapen the currency, markets are likely to punish this meddling, particularly if the country has substantial foreign debt or does not manufacture exports that can benefit from a devaluation. Cheap is good only if the market, not the government, determines the feel of a currency.

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Location 2203-2204 | Added on Monday, October 20, 2025 7:27:20 PM

on to suffer a financial crisis within the next

The Creative Act A Way of Being (Rick Rubin) (Z-Library) (Rick Rubin)
Location 1673-1675 | Added on Sunday, November 16, 2025 5:22:02 PM

Sometimes you may not yet know the essence when you’re engaged in the work. You’re merely experimenting and playing. When you end up with something you like, you may come to realize what the essence is.

The Daily Laws (Robert Greene) (Z-Library) (Robert Greene)
Location 3469-3470 | Added on Saturday, November 29, 2025 10:13:14 AM

being good at influence is actually more socially beneficial than the moral stance.

The Six Disciplines of Strategic Thinking Leadi… (Z-Library) (Michael D. Watkins)
Location 408-411 | Added on Sunday, November 30, 2025 9:46:29 AM

Wishful thinking – known more formally as the sunk cost fallacy – is another important cognitive bias. It leads us to invest precious resources into a losing proposition in the vain hope of recouping previous losses. This tendency to “double down” has been at the heart of many financial scandals, such as when rogue financial traders trap themselves in a downward spiral of increasingly large and risky bets that, in some cases, have contributed to institutional failure and even global crises.

The Six Disciplines of Strategic Thinking Leadi… (Z-Library) (Michael D. Watkins)
Location 401-406 | Added on Sunday, November 30, 2025 9:47:10 AM

Another version of confirmation bias is the halo effect, as described in Phil Rosenzweig’s book with the same title.10 This is the tendency for one important aspect of a person (or a company) to shape perceptions of the whole in ways not supported by the facts. In his research on the halo effect, Rosenzweig showed that it powerfully distorts our thinking about company performance. He explains that it’s common to assume a company with a robust financial performance has a sound strategy and strong leadership. However, when performance wanes, we’re often quick to conclude that its strategy is unsound and that its CEO has become arrogant.

The Six Disciplines of Strategic Thinking Leadi… (Z-Library) (Michael D. Watkins)
Location 421-423 | Added on Sunday, November 30, 2025 9:48:39 AM

Cognitive biases can obscure important realities, causing us to see what we want to see. The best strategic thinkers are sceptical about their intuitions and challenge everyone’s convictions.

Through Two Doors at Once The Elegant Experimen… (Z-Library) (Anil Ananthaswamy)
Location 3119-3121 | Added on Sunday, December 7, 2025 10:03:34 PM

As Feynman put it in his Cornell lecture: “ Any . . . situation in quantum mechanics, it turns out, can always be explained afterwards by saying ‘You remember the case of the experiment with the two holes?’”

Mastery (Robert Greene) (Z-Library) (Greene, Robert)
Location 201-204 | Added on Monday, December 15, 2025 7:52:44 AM

Everyone holds his fortune in his own hands, like a sculptor the raw material he will fashion into a figure. But it’s the same with that type of artistic activity as with all others: We are merely born with the capability to do it. The skill to mold the material into what we want must be learned and attentively cultivated. —JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Mastery (Robert Greene) (Z-Library) (Greene, Robert)
Location 374-376 | Added on Tuesday, December 16, 2025 10:21:05 PM

The great salvation for all of us is that we have inherited an instrument that is remarkably plastic. Our hunter-gatherer ancestors, over the course of time, managed to craft the brain into its present shape by creating a culture that could learn, change, and adapt to circumstances, that wasn’t a prisoner to the incredibly slow march of natural evolution.

Mastery (Robert Greene) (Z-Library) (Greene, Robert)
Location 1137-1138 | Added on Friday, December 19, 2025 8:26:20 AM

One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself. —LEONARDO DA VINCI

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