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Your outcomes are a lagging measure of your habits. Your net worth is a lagging measure of your financial habits. Your weight is a lagging measure of your eating habits. Your knowledge is a lagging measure of your learning habits. Your
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“Just as a warm and moist environment is conducive to the spread of deadly bacteria, the worlds of politics and business especially—with their long time frames, complex outcomes, and murky cause and effect—are conducive to the spread of half-cocked guesses posing as fact.”
― Think Like a Freak
― Think Like a Freak
“Most sows are repeatedly inseminated, brood after brood, till their bodies give way and they go to slaughter. But while they’re still useful, they’re made to nurse—strapped to their sides in a farrowing crate, legs apart, nipples exposed. Pigs are extremely smart, sociable creatures, and this forced assembly-line intimacy makes the nursing sows want to die. Which, as soon as they dry up, they do.”
― Sharp Objects
― Sharp Objects
“introverts like people they meet in friendly contexts; extroverts prefer those they compete with.”
― Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
― Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
“The beauty of progress is that it makes it easier for you to carve out a space to be nonproductive.”
― Not Cool: The Hipster Elite and Their War on You
― Not Cool: The Hipster Elite and Their War on You
“When everything is immediately available and infinitely reproducible, nothing is valuable.”
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