“If we accept a mere tenth of what animal-rights activists are claiming, then modern industrial agriculture might well be the greatest crime in history. When”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“Never ask anyone for their opinion, forecast, or recommendation. Just ask them what they have—or don’t have—in their portfolio.”
― Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder
― Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder
“This is something I know for a fact: You have to work hardest for the things you love most.”
― Mindset: How You Can Fulfil Your Potential
― Mindset: How You Can Fulfil Your Potential
“Why waste time proving over and over how great you are, when you could be getting better? Why hide deficiencies instead of overcoming them? Why look for friends or partners who will just shore up your self-esteem instead of ones who will also challenge you to grow? And why seek out the tried and true, instead of experiences that will stretch you? The passion for stretching yourself and sticking to it, even (or especially) when it’s not going well, is the hallmark of the growth mindset. This is the mindset that allows people to thrive during some of the most challenging times in their lives.”
― Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
― Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
“Ever since the Cognitive Revolution, Sapiens has thus been living in a dual reality. On the one hand, the objective reality of rivers, trees and lions; and on the other hand, the imagined reality of gods, nations and corporations. As time went by, the imagined reality became ever more powerful, so that today the very survival of rivers, trees and lions depends on the grace of imagined entities such as gods, nations and corporations.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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