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“Ritual can be defined as the structured repetition of important concepts, made resonant through the help of formal pageantry and ceremony. Ritual takes thoughts that are known but unattended and renders them active and vivid once more in our distracted minds. Unlike standard modern education, ritual doesn’t aim to teach us anything new; it wants to lend compelling form to what we believe we already know. It wants to turn our theoretical allegiances into habits.”
― The School of Life, The School of Life: An Emotional Education

“What properly indicates addiction is not what someone is doing, but their way of doing it,”
― The School of Life, The School of Life: An Emotional Education

“We are easily distracted. We engage in selective listening, hearing only what we want to hear, our minds acting on a cognitive bias for consistency rather than truth. And that’s just the start.”
― Chris Voss, Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It

“The emotionally intelligent person knows that they will only ever be mentally healthy in a few areas and at certain moments, but is committed to fathoming their inadequacies and warning others of them in good time, with apology and charm.”
― The School of Life, The School of Life: An Emotional Education