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“No matter how good you are at something, or how you rank your accomplishments, there is someone out there who makes you look incompetent.”
― Jordan B Peterson, 12 Rules for Life

“The effort of retrieval [from long term memory] is a testament to how much you know. And the rarity of those lags is a testament to how well you’ve arranged it: keeping the most important things closes to hand.”
― Algorithms to Live By By Tom Griffiths & Tom Griffiths

“A little girl shouldn’t have to worry about her entire family,’ Grandpa says to me one afternoon….

‘What?’ I ask, not because I didn’t hear what he said, but because I’m confused. Of course a little girl should worry about her entire family. That’s what little girls do.

“I just...” He steps closer to me. “I just think... you deserve to be a kid.”

My eyes well with tears, and not from me forcing them to. This is a natural welling. I can’t remember the last time I cried naturally. I’m taken off guard. I shuffle my feet.”
― Jeannette McCurdy

“[Ba Ba] asked fewer and fewer questions in America. Somehow, by leaving China, Ba Ba had grown more Chinese, starting to adopt our government's silly ideas about how asking questions was bad and disrespectful.”
― Qian Julie Wang, Beautiful Country