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"1.65 mi | 31min | listening to: Crucial Conversations
[entry 5]
hot words
- not fact
- avoid & swap w/ facts
confirmation bias
self justifying clever stories
- victim
- villain
- helpless
transform clever -> useful
- clever = incomplete
- tell rest of story
- victors -> actors
- villains -> people
- helpless -> able
- return to original motive" — Apr 20, 2026 07:29PM
"1.65 mi | 31min | listening to: Crucial Conversations
[entry 5]
hot words
- not fact
- avoid & swap w/ facts
confirmation bias
self justifying clever stories
- victim
- villain
- helpless
transform clever -> useful
- clever = incomplete
- tell rest of story
- victors -> actors
- villains -> people
- helpless -> able
- return to original motive" — Apr 20, 2026 07:29PM
“Socrates: But why, my dear Crito, should we care about the opinion of the many?”
― Crito
― Crito
“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
“Great field marshal, why bother to spur me on? I go all-out as it is.”
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“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― 1984
― 1984
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