Human behavior
How we think and feel
Human behavior
Not knowing how near the truth is, people seek it far away.
Hakuin Ekaku
It’s people we care about most, not things. If you can identify how much significance you place on something merely because of someone else’s relationship to it, you can begin to free yourself from its hold.
Luke Burgis • How to Know What You Really Want
“Beyond the very extreme of fatigue and distress, we may find amounts of ease and power we never dreamed ourselves to own; sources of strength never taxed at all because we never push through the obstruction.”
Christopher McDougall • Born to Run
“It's so simple, yet makes such a difference. Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, 'Make me feel important.'”
Brain Food: Maximum Flexibility
"Without goals, training has no direction." - Natalie Coughlin
After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord’s Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.
Viktor E. Frankl • Man's Search for Meaning
That impulse to scour away the messiness that makes life resilient is what many conservation biologists call the “pathology of command and control.” Today, the same drive to centralize, control and extract has driven the internet to the same fate as the ravaged forests.
Maria Farrell • We Need to Rewild the Internet
Who becomes a good sailor without knowledge of storms?
Martin Shaw • Navigating the Mysteries
One marker that I’m seeing someone clearly is when I understand how their strengths are also their weaknesses, how their genius lives right next to their dysfunction. I know that I’m further away from clarity when I am overly excited or overly skeptical.