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You Might Be a Late Bloomer
- I once asked a group of students on their final day at their prestigious university what book had changed their life over the previous four years. A long, awkward silence followed. Finally a student said, “You have to understand, we don’t read like that. We only sample enough of each book to get through class.” These students were hurrying to be go... See more
from You Might Be a Late Bloomer by David Brooks
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- What drove the man through all those decades of setbacks and obscurity? One biographer attributed it to his “ inquiétude ”—his drive, restlessness, anxiety. He just kept pushing himself to get better.
from You Might Be a Late Bloomer by David Brooks
Nick Nikolov added 2mo ago
- During these early periods, late bloomers try and then quit so many jobs that the people around them might conclude that they lack resilience. But these are exactly the years when the late bloomers are developing what psychologists call “diversive curiosity”—the ability to wander into a broad range of interests in a manner that seems to have no rhy... See more
from You Might Be a Late Bloomer by David Brooks
baja added 2mo ago
- I have resolved to work in silence, until the day when I should feel capable of defending theoretically the results of my endeavors.
from You Might Be a Late Bloomer by David Brooks
Abdulrahman added 3mo ago
- “Young people are just smarter,” Zuckerberg once said, in possibly the dumbest statement in American history. “There are no second acts in American lives,” F. Scott Fitzgerald once observed, in what might be the next dumbest.
from You Might Be a Late Bloomer by David Brooks
baja added 2mo ago
- “Old men ought to be explorers,” T. S. Eliot wrote in East Coker. “Here and there does not matter / We must be still and still moving / Into another intensity / For a further union, a deeper communion.” For some late bloomers, the exploration never ends. They have a certain distinct way of being in the world, but they express that way of being at g... See more
from You Might Be a Late Bloomer by David Brooks
baja added 2mo ago
- Wisdom is an intellectual trait—the ability to see reality as it really is. But it is also a moral trait; we wouldn’t call a self-centered person wise. It is also a spiritual trait; the wise person possesses a certain tranquility, the ability to stay calm when others are overwhelmed with negative emotions.
from You Might Be a Late Bloomer by David Brooks
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