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"2.47mi | 38m 46s | Listening to: Crucial Conversations
[Entry 3]
Summary:
Start with the heart
- look inward
- u r only person u can control
Motives
- ask yourself what your motive REALLY is
- find your motive for self, other, & relationship
- long term
- avoid motive drift
- ask how to approach this motive
Avoid fool's choice
- find the and" — Apr 02, 2026 08:28PM
"2.47mi | 38m 46s | Listening to: Crucial Conversations
[Entry 3]
Summary:
Start with the heart
- look inward
- u r only person u can control
Motives
- ask yourself what your motive REALLY is
- find your motive for self, other, & relationship
- long term
- avoid motive drift
- ask how to approach this motive
Avoid fool's choice
- find the and" — Apr 02, 2026 08:28PM
“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― 1984
― 1984
“Great field marshal, why bother to spur me on? I go all-out as it is.”
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“I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money.”
― Barbarians Inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays
― Barbarians Inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays
“Socrates: But why, my dear Crito, should we care about the opinion of the many?”
― Crito
― Crito
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