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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
“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― 1984
― 1984
“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
“Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day.”
― Oedipus Rex
― Oedipus Rex
“The Standard of Truth has been erected; no unhallowed hand can stop the work from progressing; persecutions may rage, mobs may combine, armies may assemble, calumny may defame, but the truth of God will go forth boldly, nobly, and independent, till it has penetrated every continent, visited every clime, swept every country, and sounded in every ear, till the purposes of God shall be accomplished, and the Great Jehovah shall say the work is done.”
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