David Phillips

“Effectiveness in life does not come from focusing on what is automatic, easy, or natural for us. Rather, it is the result of how we consciously strive to meet life’s harder challenges, grow beyond our comforts, and deliberately work to overcome our biases and preferences, so that we may understand, love, serve, and lead others.”
― Brendon Burchard, High Performance Habits: How Extraordinary People Become That Way

“At the nation’s top 130 colleges and universities, only 9 percent of first-year students are from the bottom half of the nation’s household income distribution, while 91 percent are from families in the top half of the income range.”
― Nicole Baker Fulgham, Educating All God's Children: What Christians Can--and Should--Do to Improve Public Education for Low-Income Kids

“You won’t be liberated from deformation by new information. God doesn’t deliver us from the deformative habit-forming power of tactile rival liturgies by merely giving us a book. Instead,”
― James K.A. Smith, You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit | Examining How Culture Shapes Us | Deepening Discipleship through Christian Practices

“We’re all informavores. The drive to know the unknown still exists in us all. It powers the unpredictability of the scarcity loop. It’s that deep, angsty discomfort we feel as we wait for information about an outcome. That could be knowing the falling of slot machine reels, a flood or drought of likes, the shifting of a Robinhood stock, or waiting for a rightward swipe.”
― Michael Easter, Scarcity Brain: Fix Your Craving Mindset and Rewire Your Habits to Thrive with Enough