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“Disbelief in one’s capabilities,” writes the psychologist Albert Bandura, “creates its own behavioral validation.”

Tom Vanderbilt • Beginners

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A descrença em nossas próprias capacidades cria sua própria validação comportamental. Falando em português claro, conforme o meu entendimento em relação ao que o autor está dizendo, se acreditarmos que “podemos fazer”, acabamos de fato conseguindo fazer. E se acreditarmos no contrário, que não podemos fazer, nós mesmos nos impediremos de conseguir fazer de fato.

To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.

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A man…progresses in all things by making a fool of himself.*1

—george bernard shaw

Tom Vanderbilt • Beginners

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Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
– Carrie Fisher

Brevidade inteligente: O poder de dizer muito com poucas palavras by Mike Allen

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As Ravi Kumar, president of the IT giant Infosys, describes it, “You have to learn to learn, learn to unlearn, and learn to re-learn.”

Tom Vanderbilt • Beginners

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INTERNALIZED CAPITALISM LOOKS LIKE THIS
- You feel guilty when you rest.
- Your self-esteem is largely based on good performance in your career.
- Productivity is more important than health.
- The belief that hard work = happiness.
- You feel lazy even when you are in pain, experiencing trauma or adversity.
- You use busyness as a means of avoiding