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"I understand there's a guy inside me who wants to lay in bed, smoke weed all day, and watch cartoons and old movies. My whole life is a series of stratagems to avoid, and outwit, that guy.”
— Anthony Bourdain
The reason we’re so increasingly intolerant of long articles and why we skim them, why we skip forward even in a short video that reduces a 300-page book into a three-minute animation — even in that we skip forward — is that we’ve been infected with this kind of pathological impatience that makes us want to have the knowledge but not do the work of... See more
Maria Popova • Maria Popova — Cartographer of Meaning in a Digital Age
Most of the things we do and believe result from stories that we tell ourselves
David Foster Wallace: "there's a lot of narcissism in self-hatred"
Because the question isn’t just What are you watching, reading, listening to?
It’s Who is it turning you into?
It’s Who is it turning you into?