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The Nobel Prize winner William Shockley was fond of talking about “the will to think”:

Motivation is at least as important as method for the serious thinker, Shockley believed...the essential element for successful work in any field was “the will to think”. This was a phrase he learned from the nuclear physicist Enrico Fermi and never forgot. “In

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Worry Is Sin
The Manifesto

Worry is sin. Worry is blasphemy. It is doubt against reality, against creation. Each anxious thought spits in GOD's face. Your fear is faithlessness. A cancer of the soul that spreads until it paralyzes and kills. Worry is to wage war against the divine order. Against what must be. Every second spent in anxiety is a sin.

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No. No excuses. No exceptions. No way around it: It’s on you. We don’t have the luxury of running away. Of hiding. Because we have something very specific we’re trying to do. We have an obstacle we have to lean into and transform. No one is coming to save you. And if we’d like to go where we claim we want to go—to accomplish what we claim are our

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We judge too quickly. We assume intent where none is proven. We pronounce verdicts with incomplete evidence. Imagine if we gave people around us the same grace the umpire gives a batter, edged in uncertainty. A friend who hasn’t replied in days. A co-worker who snapped in a meeting. A stranger who cut the queue. The boss who shouted at you. Or you... See more

Well, I am turning 47. Today.

I am either 46, 47 or 48 depending on which method or system of ascertaining age, you follow. 46 according to a method of insurance premium calculation (“Age last birthday”), 47 according to reality, and 48 according to the Korean tradition, where a baby is considered one year old at birth, and everyone ages one year on... See more