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High Performance Habits
Brendon Burchard
“Often, the journey to greatness begins the moment our preferences for comfort and certainty are overruled by a greater purpose that requires challenge and contribution.”
Brendon Burchard
“Often, the journey to greatness begins the moment our preferences for comfort and certainty are overruled by a greater purpose that requires challenge and contribution.”
Daily Review | Readwise
Chaval al hazman (חבל אל הזמן)
Literally "shame on time"; referring to an amazing experience that you don't want to end
Literally "shame on time"; referring to an amazing experience that you don't want to end
Steph Smith • Eunoia: Words that Don't Translate
How I feel while watching a great movie or reading a page-turning book
“If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it's not your path. Your own path you make with every step you take. That's why it's your path.”
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Joseph Campbell
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Joseph Campbell
A quote by Joseph Campbell
When you look back at the most fruitful moments of your life years from now, you’ll be surprised to discover how many of them unfolded amid a big loss or a crisis or in the face of a giant unknown.
Heather Havrilesky • Tolerating Unknowns Will Make You Stronger
We have a narrow definition of work as something that can be paid for and that typically exists in the form of a job. The real work is to find the things worth committing to. Then the only “job” is to design your life to continue to do those things.
Paul Millerd • Tweet
THE GREAT TRIUMPH (OR horrible tragedy, depending on how you look at it) of being human is that our brains have evolved over hundreds of thousands of years to understand our mortality.
Caitlin Doughty • Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory
A 2018 study found that people typically pursue higher levels of education because they believe it will lead to more leisure time. But, in fact, more educated people tend to have less leisure time.13 They earn more money, but also work more hours. This upends their expectations and ends up having a net zero effect on overall happiness.
Rob Henderson • Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class
Always remember that you belong to no one, and no one belongs to you.
Lahiri Mahasaya
“Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become, and the same is true of fame.”
—Arthur Schopenhauer
—Arthur Schopenhauer
Rob Henderson @robkhenderson
feature or a bug? and Human behavior
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