Charlie
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Charlie
When people worry about your mental diet, they tend to fret about the junk you’re pouring into your brain—the trashy videos, the cheap horror movies, the degrading reality TV, and ... I’m not so worried about the dangers of mental junk food. That’s because I’ve found that many of the true intellectuals I’ve met take pleasure in mental junk food too... See more
“The trouble with the internet, Mr. Williams says, is that it rewards extremes. Say you’re driving down the road and see a car crash. Of course you look. Everyone looks. The internet interprets behavior like this to mean everyone is asking for car crashes, so it tries to supply them.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/20/technology/evan-williams-mediu
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Religion is more than a matter of worship; it is a matter of our daily conduct, our social relations, our attitude towards our fellow men, and our efforts to do good in the world. - Mahatma Gandhi
Do bold things with a pleasant and friendly demeanor."
On helping: "Imagine if for every person you met, you thought of some way to help them, something you could do for them? And you looked at it in a way that entirely benefited them and not you. The cumulative effect this would have over time would be profound: You'd learn a great deal by solving diverse problems. You'd develop a reputation for being... See more
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Psychologist and Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman on optimism:
"If you are allowed one wish for your child, seriously consider wishing him or her optimism. Optimists are normally cheerful and happy, and therefore popular; they are resilient in adapting to failures and hardships, their chances of clinical depression are reduced, their immune system... See more
"If you are allowed one wish for your child, seriously consider wishing him or her optimism. Optimists are normally cheerful and happy, and therefore popular; they are resilient in adapting to failures and hardships, their chances of clinical depression are reduced, their immune system... See more
No one ever made a decision because of a number. They need a story.”
— Daniel Kahneman
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“The most powerful person in the world is the storyteller. The storyteller sets the vision, values and agenda of an entire generation that is to come.”
— Steve Jobs
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“For a long time, I looked for consensus. I think consensus is really the enemy of scale, and so ... See more
— Daniel Kahneman
**
“The most powerful person in the world is the storyteller. The storyteller sets the vision, values and agenda of an entire generation that is to come.”
— Steve Jobs
***
“For a long time, I looked for consensus. I think consensus is really the enemy of scale, and so ... See more