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What is worthwhile?

Low expectations are a self-fulfilling prophecy. If we aim high, we’ll get better results.

Ted Chiang • Exhalation: Stories

A Harvard psychologist once asked Amos Tversky why he became a psychologist. “It’s hard to know how people select a course in life,” he said. “The big choices we make are practically random. The small choices tell us more about who we are. Which field we go into may depend on which high school teacher we happen to meet. Who we marry may depend on... See more

SIX at 6: The Seemingly Frivolous, Reading A Tongue, Experiencing A Spoon, Authenticating Paintings, The Systematic Choices, and Great Revelations

“I quote others only in order the better to express myself.”

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Michel de Montaigne,

The Complete Essays

A quote from The Complete Essays

“I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatsoever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no ‘brief candle’ to me; it is a sort of splendid torch which I’ve got a hold of for the

learning occurs when you get lots of feedback tied closely in time to decisions and actions.

Annie Duke • Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts

Man's Search for Meaning

Viktor E. Frankl

Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation.

Daily Review | Readwise

In recent years, I've begun to suspect that a life consumed by ideas will not bring me closer to the divine. The freedom I seek, it seems, doesn't lie in my laying about, steeped in my own brain, but rather in the stillness I've found in the more mundane moments of my life. In these moments, there is no euphoria, nor even any active reflection on... See more

Nadia • Glimpsing God

“Feel compliments as deeply as you feel insults.”

James Clear • Highlights From jamesclear.com

There is some value to serendipity, but we are overconsuming novelty and under consuming purpose