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“Superlative performance is really a confluence of dozens of small skills or activities,2 each one learned or stumbled upon, which have been carefully drilled into habit and then are fitted together in a synthesized whole. There is nothing
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“Anxiety is like the check-engine light on your car. If you disable it, you’re screwed.”
― The Science of Stuck: Breaking Through Inertia to Find Your Path Forward
― The Science of Stuck: Breaking Through Inertia to Find Your Path Forward
“No state, no matter how advanced, is immune from flawed leadership, the erosion of political checks and balances, and the degradation of its institutions.”
― There Is Nothing for You Here: Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century
― There Is Nothing for You Here: Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century
“Education in all its forms—from elementary to secondary to further education and professional training—is the beating heart of the infrastructure of opportunity. It has the potential to define and redefine who you are and who you will be. For me, it was everything.”
― There Is Nothing for You Here: Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century
― There Is Nothing for You Here: Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century
“Those who can make people believe absurdities, can make people commit atrocities.”
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“The more advanced the country, the more its citizens insist on a pure water supply, on laws against careless methods of preparing and handling food, and against the making and advertising of harmful drugs. Powerful vested interests with profits at stake compel the public authorities to fight a sustained battle against the assumption that the pursuit of individual profit is the best way to serve the general good.”
― In Place of Fear
― In Place of Fear
Katherine’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Katherine’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
810 books
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1,739 books
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416 friends
178 books
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382 friends
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121 books
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87 friends
144 books
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2,134 books
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36 friends
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