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A Way to Understand Optimism
Jeffrey Zaslow • The Last Lecture
She loves feeling that every headway man tries to make
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
By testing our limits and affording the freedom to fail, they release our most creative, ambitious selves.
John Doerr • Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs
She went into an incredible learning mode, making herself into the CEO Xerox needed to survive.
Carol S. Dweck • Mindset - Updated Edition: Changing The Way You think To Fulfil Your Potential
Not until we experience new forms of disaster can we understand what it is we need to prevent.
Elisa Gabbert • The Unreality of Memory: And Other Essays
Mihaly made the case for “positive psychology”: that we should primarily focus on the things that make life worth living, and find ways to boost them.
Johann Hari • Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again
Human nature requires catastrophes to jolt us into change—but with some catastrophes, notably climate change, by the time that happens it may be too late.
W. Brian Arthur • Complexity Economics: Proceedings of the Santa Fe Institute's 2019 Fall Symposium
The single best thing you can do for the world. It occurs to her: The problem begins with that word world. It means two such opposite things. The real one we cannot see. The invented one we can’t escape. She lifts the glass and hears her father read out loud: Let me sing to you now, about how people turn into other things.