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Carl Spies
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“We change our behavior when the pain of staying the same becomes greater than the pain of changing. Consequences give us the pain that motivates us to change.”
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“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”
― The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones
― The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones
“A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor.”
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“When you have one foot in the future and the other in the past, you piss on the present.”
― 10% Happier
― 10% Happier
“Striving is fine, as long as it’s tempered by the realization that, in an entropic universe, the final outcome is out of your control. If you don’t waste your energy on variables you cannot influence, you can focus much more effectively on those you can. When you are wisely ambitious, you do everything you can to succeed, but you are not attached to the outcome—so that if you fail, you will be maximally resilient, able to get up, dust yourself off, and get back in the fray. That, to use a loaded term, is enlightened self-interest.”
― 10% Happier
― 10% Happier
Carl’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Carl’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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218 friends
472 books
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326 books
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73 friends
10,808 books
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235 friends
244 books
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499 books
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95 books
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165 books
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