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The first part of the talk was scheduled for 9/11, just after the Twin Towers came down. Eckhart did not reschedule the interview, did not disappoint, and did not fail to comfort. In the second part, he shares some of the physiological changes he exp ...more "
“If your ambition is to maximize short-term gain without regard to the long-term cost, you are better off not knowing the cost. If you want to preserve your personal immunity to the hard problems, it’s better never to really understand those problems. There is an upside to ignorance, and a downside to knowledge. Knowledge makes life messier. It makes it a bit more difficult for a person who wishes to shrink the world to a worldview.”
― The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy
― The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy
“ ‘Tell me what you read and I’ll tell you who you are’ is true enough, but I’d know you better if you told me what you reread.”
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“Sometimes books don't find us until the right time.”
― The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
― The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
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