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There is some value to serendipity, but we are overconsuming novelty and under consuming purpose
Balaji S. Srinivasan • Legacy Media Is Lying To You - Balaji Srinivasan | Modern Wisdom Podcast 519
“Learning is a gift, even when pain is your teacher.” – Michael Jordan
Eli Geschwind • Fwd: 📝 What Women Want, Permaculture, the 4th Turning, Taleb's Skin in the Game Pt. 1, Huberman/Attia, Rory Sutherland, Michael Jordan
When I see people described as progressive but they spend more energy hating the rich (e.g. landlords) versus helping people (e.g. pushing for more market rate housing), I’m reminded that people love being cruel while protected by the cloak of righteousness.
X. It’s what’s happening
Incentives are the strongest force in the world. They explain why good people do awful things, why smart people do stupid things, and why ordinary people do amazing things. Nearly everyone underestimates how much their own beliefs and actions are influenced by their incentives, many of which are designed to fulfill someone else’s goals.
Morgan Housel • Big Beliefs
In life, there is no gift as overlooked or inevitable as failure. I’ve had quite a few and have learned to relish them,
David Goggins • Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds
They wander through the winding passages of the shopping malls prompted and guided by a semi-conscious hope of bumping into the very identity badge or token needed to bring their selves up to date,
Zygmunt Bauman • Liquid Life
French philosopher Simone Weil encourages us to search the root cause:
"All sins are attempts to fill voids."
101 Additional Advices
Kevin Kelly
Asking “what-if?” about your past is a waste of time; asking “what-if?” about your future is tremendously productive.
Kevin Kelly
Asking “what-if?” about your past is a waste of time; asking “what-if?” about your future is tremendously productive.
Daily Review | Readwise
Our cognitive apparatus is designed, at least in part, to sustain us in the long term rather than balm us in the near term.