Write down how you normally react to unanticipated problems.
I get anxious and remember previous failures I imagine how things could spiral in a bad direction
I feel insecure and unlucky
I procrastinate and overthink different possibilities and delay action
I pace and listen to music and smoke
I feel lonely
I take big risks and make big compromises
I get too nice
“All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.”
― Gabriel García Márquez: a Life
― Gabriel García Márquez: a Life
“It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.”
― One Hundred Years of Solitude
― One Hundred Years of Solitude
“Nothing frustrates me more than someone who reads something of mine or anyone else's and says, angrily, 'I don't buy it.' Why are they angry? Good writing does not succeed or fail on the strength of its ability to persuade. It succeeds or fails on the strength of its ability to engage you, to make you think, to give you a glimpse into someone else's head—even if in the end you conclude that someone else's head is not a place you'd really like to be.”
― What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures
― What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures
“He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.”
― Love in the Time of Cholera
― Love in the Time of Cholera
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