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
But the justice in transactions between man and man is a sort of equality indeed, and the injustice a sort of inequality; not according to that kind of proportion, however, but according to arithmetical proportion. For it makes no difference whether a good man has defrauded a bad man or a bad man a good one, nor whether it is a good or a bad man th
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Smart people know an unsettling truth: loyalty must be given before it's earned.
The best leaders I know extend trust and loyalty long before receiving it - they treat people as if they've already proven trustworthy. This seems naive until you realize it's a forcing function: by acting as if people have already earned your trust, you create the cond... See more
The best leaders I know extend trust and loyalty long before receiving it - they treat people as if they've already proven trustworthy. This seems naive until you realize it's a forcing function: by acting as if people have already earned your trust, you create the cond... See more
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
" You never change things by fighting the existing reality. T o change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete."
Buckminster Fuller
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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
Desire (as opposed to need) is an intellectual appetite for things that you perceive to be good, but that you have no physical, instinctual basis for wanting – and that’s true whether those things are actually good or not.