sparks

the people who win deals are the ones who want to win them most.

Three things:

1. Everything, if done long enough and deeply enough, is sometimes tedious.


2. I’m pretty sure the key to long-term happiness lies in having fun even when something is tedious and difficult.


3. If you find something fun even when it’s objectively hard, keep going.

“He continues to teach because it provides him with a livelihood; also because it teaches him humility, brings it home to him who he is in the world. The irony does not escape him: that the one who comes to teach learns the keenest of lessons, while those who come to learn learn nothing.”

― J.M. Coetzee, Disgrace

I dislike when people say they “have empathy” instead of showing it by demonstrating they can hold different perspectives. It turns the word into a badge instead of a verb.

I feel a wave of dystopia whenever I confront the intellectual inconsistency of highly educated people.