“The universe is seeming really huge right now,” he told me. “I need something to hold on to.”
“The human that depended on focused attention for its survival now becomes the distracted scanning animal, unable to think in depth, yet unable to depend on instincts.”
― Mastery
― Mastery
“And at the root of this mental transformation are two simple biological traits—the visual and the social—that primitive humans leveraged into power.”
― Mastery
― Mastery
“The trees were always doing something: when I kept this fact placed firmly in front of me, I got closer to making sense of the problem.”
― Lab Girl
― Lab Girl
“The great danger is that we give in to feelings of boredom, impatience, fear, and confusion. We stop observing and learning. The process comes to a halt.”
― Mastery
― Mastery
“Unlike NASA, the Russians don’t feel the drama of the countdown is necessary.”
― Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery
― Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery
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