Leo Guinan

Mentors and friends have always warned me that employers will never care about you.

But what if that’s a story we decided was true, one that doesn’t have to be?

In other words, the faster you try to change, the more likely you are to backslide. The very pursuit of rapid change dials up a wide range of counteracting forces which are fighting to pull you back into your previous lifestyle. You might be able to beat equilibrium for a little while, but pretty soon your energy fades and the backsliding begins.

H]uman beings need all the relatives they can get–as possible donors or receivers not necessarily of love, but of common decency.

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When we were children in Indianapolis, Indiana, it appeared that we would always have an extended family of genuine relatives there. Our parents and grandparents, after all, had grown up there with shoals of siblings

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A new idea can be spread quickly if someone can explain it and communicate it to others before they have to discover it themselves. But the chief advantage of language is not communication but autogeneration. Language is a trick that allows the mind to question itself; a magic mirror that reveals to the mind what the mind thinks; a handle that... See more

So, beyond pharmacological clock modulation, drugs that alter consciousness broadly often secondarily alter time perception by changing what the mind is attending to or capable of processing .

Creation is a messy process. You don't know how long it's gonna take. You don't know exactly what it's gonna look like in the end. All you know is that there's something ahead of you in the fog that you're grasping at.

the thing is, as an adult, you get to make your own cool. you get to choose your own friends, live your own life. and let me tell you, in my life, where i make the rules, i am the coolest cat around.

being passionate about your hobbies is cool. asking good questions is cool. reading books is cool. taking notes is cool.

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Discipline is what the factory and the office and the store share with the prison and the school and the mental hospital.