Jon Mead
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Jon Mead
@jiuks
Learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience. Because if you cannot exercise this kind of choice in adult life, you will be totally hosed.... See more
David Foster Wallace,
How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life goes on, the fewer are those around to challenge our account, to remind us that our life is not our life, merely the story we have told about our life. Told to others, but—mainly—to ourselves.
‘Life has no intrinsic worth, but is kept in motion merely by want and illusion.’
the pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to.