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Perhaps it’s more helpful to think of collecting books like collecting wine: you pick up novels you know you will enjoy at some time in the future. That time might be right now, or it might be next year. Like a bottle of Sancerre, you’ll bring it down off the shelf at the perfect moment, when you’ll enjoy it most. That’s okay, even encouraged,... See more

“I guarantee you that at some point everything is going to go south on you. You're going to say this is it, this is how I end. Now you can either accept that, or you can get to work. That’s all it is. You just begin” (Mark Watney, The Martian

How Seth thinks about organization Organizing is like building a case to hold your tools. You don’t get points for making it fancy, you get points for doing the work.

Excellence in the capacity to take pain: https://t.co/hCRdTTQvw4

When you choose whom to follow on Twitter, you’re choosing what types of mindsets and aesthetics to expose yourself to on a regular basis. You’re choosing what types of conversations to have. You’re choosing to be reminded regularly of certain things, and not of others. This is a kind of Programmable attention.

The difficulty is a guarantee. You can't control it.

But you can control how you react to it. You can control your response to it. You can control your attitude towards it.

You can use the difficulty.