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“A normal work day at best contains eight hours of meetings, a few hours to respond to emails. It all blurs together. The only time to shut out the world is when I exercise, surf, take a shower or sit on the toilet. That’s when new solutions surface.”
― Silence: In the Age of Noise
― Silence: In the Age of Noise
“Dopamine is not programmed to release a feeling of fulfilment even if you’ve achieved what you sought and craved: so you are never satisfied. This means I continue to google, twenty minutes after I’ve found what I was initially searching for.”
― Silence: In the Age of Noise
― Silence: In the Age of Noise
“First, accept that life is hard, and that transforming our life—or our abilities, which amount to much the same thing—is very hard.”
― The Rock Warrior's Way: Mental Training For Climbers
― The Rock Warrior's Way: Mental Training For Climbers
“(I had been forced by the company who owned the plane that flew me to the northern edge of Antarctica to bring a radio. The last thing I did in the plane was to leave the batteries in the rubbish bin.)”
― Silence: In the Age of Noise
― Silence: In the Age of Noise
“Silence in itself is rich. It is exclusive and luxurious. A key to unlock new ways of thinking. I don’t regard it as a renunciation or something spiritual, but rather as a practical resource for living a richer life. Or, to put it in more ordinary terms, as a deeper form of experiencing life than just turning on the TV to watch the news, again.”
― Silence: In the Age of Noise
― Silence: In the Age of Noise
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