feature or a bug?
how advantages can be disadvantages and strengths can be weaknesses
feature or a bug?
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Writer and activist James Baldwin on the power of reading:
"You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was Dostoevsky and Dickens who taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who ever had been
... See moreYou're under no obligation to remain the same person you were a year ago, a month ago, or even a day ago. You are here to create yourself, continuously.
Prof. Feynmanx.comTHE 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.
Caitlin Doughty • Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory
human belief systems are good at absorbing contradictions into their thinking.
Richard Holloway • Stories We Tell Ourselves: Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
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.
The School of Life • How to Think More Effectively: A guide to greater productivity, insight and creativity (Work series)
Someone dumber and lazier than you is making 10x the money because they are too dumb to doubt themselves.” - Kyle Harrison via Trevor McKendrick newsletter
The ease of having an ambition is that it can be explained to others; the very disease of ambition is that it can be so easily explained to others. DAVID WHYTE
Paul Millerd • The Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story For Work and Life
From George Mack newsletter
The human mind is a remarkable contraption, great at keeping us psychologically buoyant in periods of chaos and allowing us to pay the price later, once the storm has settled.