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visualizing what it would be like to be successful (seeing the benefits of the goal in my head),
Always helps me maintain good habits when I think of myself as “the type of person who does x.” Assigning an identity to the habit is useful
“It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.”
― The Sun Also Rises
― The Sun Also Rises
“I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it.”
― The Sun Also Rises
― The Sun Also Rises
“Knowing what to overlook is one way older adults are typically wiser than young adults. With age comes what is known as "positivity effect". We become more interested in positive information, and our brains react less strongly to what negative information we do encounter.”
― The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter - And How to Make the Most of Them Now
― The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter - And How to Make the Most of Them Now
“In the end, Tipping Points are a reaffirmation of the potential for change and the power of intelligent action. Look at the world around you. It may seem like an immovable, implacable place. It is not. With the slightest push—in just the right place—it can be tipped.”
― The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
― The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
“The most intriguing candidate for that "something else" is called the Broken Windows theory. Broken Windows was the brainchild of the criminologist James Q. Wilson and George Kelling. Wilson and Kelling argued that crime is the inevitable result of disorder. If a window is broken and left unrepaired, people walking by will conclude that no one cares and no one is in charge. Soon, more windows will be broken, and the sense of anarchy will spread from the building to the street on which it faces, sending a signal that anything goes. In a city, relatively minor problems like graffiti, public disorder, and aggressive panhandling, they write, are all the equivalent of broken windows, invitations to more serious crimes:”
― The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
― The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
Elyse’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Elyse’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
816 books
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65 friends
349 books
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18 friends
187 books
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28 friends
166 books
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23 friends
281 books
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9 friends
99 books
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7 friends
315 books
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7 friends
77 books
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8 friends
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