feature or a bug?
how advantages can be disadvantages and strengths can be weaknesses
by Eli · updated 1mo ago
feature or a bug?
- “Contrary to popular belief, time does not heal, time does not fly, time does not do anything. Time has no consciousness. It does nothing for you. The key to happiness now is what you choose to do with your time right now. Are you, right now, making the most valuable use of your time? This moment is, after all, the time of your life. Your choices a... See more
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- “Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become, and the same is true of fame.”
—Arthur Schopenhauerfrom Rob Henderson @robkhenderson
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- “Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.”
— Ralph Waldo Emersonfrom Outlook
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In situations of low stress and safety, mind-wandering will be a gift, a pleasure, a creative force. In situations of high stress or danger, mind-wandering will be a torment.
from Stolen Focus by Johann Hari
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life is the very definition of uncertainty.
from Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed by Lori Gottlieb
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We’re good at learning by tinkering—which is fortunate, because we’re terrible at getting things right the first time.
from How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between by Bent Flyvbjerg
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THE GREAT TRIUMPH (OR horrible tragedy, depending on how you look at it) of being human is that our brains have evolved over hundreds of thousands of years to understand our mortality.
from Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty
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human belief systems are good at absorbing contradictions into their thinking.
from Stories We Tell Ourselves: Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe by Richard Holloway
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We should accept that our brains are strange, delicate instruments that evade our direct commands and are perplexingly talented at warding off the very ideas that might save us or help us flourish.
from How to Think More Effectively: A guide to greater productivity, insight and creativity (Work series) by The School of Life
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