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“I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano

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“The test is not a complex one: when the alarm goes off, do you get up out of bed, or do you lie there in comfort and fall back to sleep? If you have the discipline to get out of bed, you win—you pass the test. If you are mentally weak for that moment and you let that weakness keep you in bed, you fail. Though it seems small, that weakness translates to more significant decisions. But if you exercise discipline, that too translates to more substantial elements of your life.”
― Jocko Willink, Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win

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“Look at these humans! How could such glacial slowness even be called life? An age could pass, virtual empires rise and fall in the time they took to open their mouths to utter some new inanity!”
― Iain M. Banks, Excession

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“I don't know why we take our worst moods so much more seriously than our best, crediting depression with more clarity than euphoria. We dismiss peak moments and passionate love affairs as an ephemeral chemical buzz, just endorphins or hormones, but accept those 3 a.m. bouts of despair as unsentimental insights into the truth about our lives.”
― Tim Kreider, We Learn Nothing

tags: depression, despair, euphoria, insight, love, love-affairs, passion, passionate

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“Leaders should never be satisfied. They must always strive to improve, and they must build that mind-set into the team. They must face the facts through a realistic, brutally honest assessment of themselves and their team’s performance. Identifying weaknesses, good leaders seek to strengthen them and come up with a plan to overcome challenges. The best teams anywhere, like the SEAL Teams, are constantly looking to improve, add capability, and push the standards higher. It starts with the individual and spreads to each of the team members until this becomes the culture, the new standard. The recognition that there are no bad teams, only bad leaders facilitates Extreme Ownership and enables leaders to build high-performance teams that dominate on any battlefield, literal or figurative.”
― Jocko Willink, Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win

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McAllen Public Library — 62 members — last activity Dec 19, 2019 02:05PM
McAllen Public Library invites you to join our book discussion group to discover what your community is reading and to discuss literature.

Goodreads Authors/Readers — 56768 members — last activity 3 hours, 17 min ago
This group is dedicated to connecting readers with Goodreads authors. It is divided by genres, and includes folders for writing resources, book websit ...more

Wellness and Self-Improvement Books — 1009 members — last activity Apr 18, 2026 11:46AM
A non-fiction group for discussing the sub-set of self-help books designed to increase self-awareness, emotional intelligence, and life skills.

Underground Knowledge — A discussion group — 25532 members — last activity 11 hours, 24 min ago
This global discussion group has been designed to encourage debates about important and underreported issues of our era. All you need is an enquiring ...more

Self Improvement Readers and Doers — 24 members — last activity Jan 25, 2016 12:27AM
This group is for readers who strive to improve themselves through reading, learning, reflecting, sharing, and taking action. We will discuss, recomm ...more

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