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“One thing I can say with complete certainty is that it is a bad idea to trust the majority of experts in any domain in which both complexity and large amounts of money are involved.”
― Scott Adams, Loserthink: How Untrained Brains Are Ruining America

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“The vast majority of us are slaves to our minds. Most don’t even make the first effort when it comes to mastering their thought process because it’s a never-ending chore and impossible to get right every time.”
― David Goggins, Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds

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“Being absolutely right and being spectacularly wrong feel exactly the same.”
― Scott Adams, Loserthink: How Untrained Brains Are Ruining America

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“There are three important things to know about human beings in order to understand why we do the things we do. Humans use pattern recognition to understand their world. Humans are very bad at pattern recognition. And they don’t know it.”
― Scott Adams, Loserthink: How Untrained Brains Are Ruining America

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“real toughness is experiencing discomfort or distress, leaning in, paying attention, and creating space to take thoughtful action. It’s maintaining a clear head to be able to make the appropriate decision. Toughness is navigating discomfort to make the best decision you can. And research shows that this model of toughness is more effective at getting results than the old one.”
― Steve Magness, Do Hard Things: Why We Get Resilience Wrong and the Surprising Science of Real Toughness

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