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Most of our problems fall into one of two categories. Either we know what needs to be done, and we’re not doing it. Or… We really just don’t know what to do.

Gregg Krech • The Art of Taking Action: Lessons from Japanese Psychology

Kagi Search

With regard to memory, think of it like this: From the innumerable events that have happened in a person’s past, that person chooses only those events that are compatible with their present goals, gives meaning to them, and turns them into memories. And conversely, events that run counter to the present goals are erased.

Fumitake Koga • The Courage to Be Happy: Discover the Power of Positive Psychology and Choose Happiness Every Day

There is an old Japanese term that perfectly sums up this surfeit of content: “tsundoku.” It means the piling up of unread books. In the twenty-first century, we all live in the shadow of an enormous multimedia tsundoku.

Derek Thompson • Hit Makers

Novelist Charles Kingsley on happiness:

“We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.”

all the habits I’ve acquired over my lifetime I’d have to say this one has been the most helpful, the most meaningful.

Haruki Murakami • What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

Now, though, I realize that all I can place in the imperfect vessel of writing are imperfect memories and imperfect thoughts. The more the memories of Naoko inside me fade, the more deeply I am able to understand her.

Haruki Murakami • Norwegian Wood

It’s easy to be seduced by the world of potentiality. A book is always greatest before it’s written. You are intoxicated by what it can be. That’s very dangerous. You want to kill those seductions as quickly as possible, and one way to achieve that is fast iteration. Make known the unknown; murder your fantasies.

Craig Mod

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