Patrick Devlin
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Patrick Devlin
Reflecting on this email from a Sublime believer:
Consuming media has become a massive time-suck for humankind. Only decades ago, the average person had one source of information, if any — the newspaper. Journalists chronicled happenings relevant to their community. And that was it. Someone got married, someone is selling their house, someone died,
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Most of the people we try to impress are busy trying to impress someone else.
The spotlight effect is the habit of overestimating how much others focus on us. We don't see how preoccupied they are with themselves.
True confidence stems from self-respect, not social approval.
Adam Grantsubstack.com
All of them gather around a prayer, and the prayer is to be useful,” he says.
Bono
"Our actions may be impeded...but there can be no impeding our intentions or dispositions. Because we can accommodate and adapt. The mind adapts and converts to its own purposes the obstacle to our acting. And then he concluded with powerful words destined for a maxim. "The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the wa
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