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Wisdom by EM
If you do something like read a lot of books and talk to a lot of people, you can learn almost anything.
When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.
Pay attention to negative feedback, and solicit it, particularly from friends. The friends who tell you what you want to hear might make you
When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
Walker Percy • A Confederacy of Dunces
KOBE'S 1O RULES
GET BETTER EVERY SINGLE DAY
PROVE THEM WRONG
WORK ON YOUR WEAKNESSES
EXECUTE WHAT YOU PRACTICED
LEARN FROM GREATNESS
LEARN FROM WINS & LOSSES
PRACTICE MINDFULNESS
BE AMBITIOUS
BELIEVE IN YOUR TEAM
LEARN STORYTELLING
I simply await the day that they drag me to some air-conditioned dungeon and leave me there beneath the fluorescent lights and soundproofed ceiling to pay the price for scorning all that they hold dear within their little latex hearts.
Walker Percy • A Confederacy of Dunces
The secret is not to find the meaning of life, but to use your life to make things that are meaningful. https://x.com/JamesClear/status/1760722578887352596
"No, I was not `playing' with the cat. I only picked it up to fondle it a bit. It was a rather appealing calico. I offered it a hot dog. However, the cat refused to eat it. It was an animal with some taste and decency."
Walker Percy • A Confederacy of Dunces
"No, I was not 'playing' with the cat..."
He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.
– Jean-Luc Godard
Irrevocable commitment to any religion is not only intellectual suicide; it is positive unfaith because it closes the mind to any new vision of the world. Faith is, above
Alan Watts • The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
Religions are divisive and quarrelsome. They are a form of one-upmanship because they depend upon separating the “saved” from the “damned,” the true believers from the heretics, the in-group from the out-group.