Said AlSalah
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Said AlSalah
The purpose of life is to experience things for which you will later experience nostalgia
Jack Raines • Six Types of Wealth
The trouble with the internet, Mr. Williams says, is that it rewards extremes. Say you’re driving down the road and see a car crash. Of course you look. Everyone looks. The internet interprets behavior like this to mean everyone is asking for car crashes, so it tries to supply them.
‘The Internet Is Broken’: @ev Is Trying to Salvage It (Published 2017)
Here’s something I’m very thankful I was told while I was still in my 20s: that the point of all this “hard work” is to recognize the person it makes you, not what it “gets” you
Vicariously is a terrible way to live
“What If?” is a terrible question to ask about your past, but an amazing question to ask about your future. Ask it often, and don’t be afraid of what you come up with.
“Beauty is not in the face, beauty is a light in the heart” - Khalil Gibran
Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy: Goals set retroactively after an activity, like shooting a blank wall and then drawing a bullseye around the holes you left, or picking a benchmark after you’ve invested
Morgan Housel • 100 Little Ideas
The worst of all things is not to live in a physical world - Wallace Steven
The definition of hell is: Your last day on Earth, the person you became meets the person you could have become.” - Dan Sullivan