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“Mysticism,” he likes to say, “is the antidote to fundamentalism.”
“The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.”
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“Some 40 percent of people with serious mental illnesses have been arrested at some point in their lives.”
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“It would seem as though having a memory like AJ’s would make life qualitatively different—and better. Our culture inundates us with new information, yet so little of it is captured and cataloged in a way that it can be retrieved later. What would it mean to have all that otherwise lost knowledge at our fingertips? Would it make us more persuasive, more confident? Would it make us, in some fundamental sense, smarter? To the extent that experience is the sum of our memories and wisdom the sum of experience, having a better memory would mean knowing not only more about the world, but also more about oneself. How many worthwhile ideas have gone unthought and connections unmade because of our memory’s shortcomings?”
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“NAMI finds that men are four times more likely to commit suicide than women, and without the warning signs.”
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“All of us face barriers—physical, financial, temporal—every day. Some are unquestionably real. But others are plainly artificial—expectations about how well a given system can function, or how much change is too much, or what kinds of behaviors are acceptable. The next time you encounter such a barrier, imposed by people who lack your imagination and drive and creativity, think hard about ignoring it. Solving a problem is hard enough; it gets that much harder if you’ve decided beforehand it can’t be done.”
― Think Like a Freak
― Think Like a Freak
Jonathan’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Jonathan’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
409 books
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13 friends
361 books
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53 friends
379 books
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110 friends
1,030 books
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232 friends
252 books
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186 friends
1,660 books
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32 friends
211 books
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34 friends
271 books
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62 friends
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