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Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work by Chip Heath

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When you can articulate someone’s point of view better than they can, it’s de facto proof that you are really listening.

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“These were notes on how to write, and thus notes on how to think.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

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“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

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“Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.”
― Otto von Bismarck

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“No one is satisfied with his fortune,and everyone is satisfied with his wit.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

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“Remember that by saying “yes”—to projects, a course of action, or whatever—you are implicitly saying “no” to something else.”
― Andrew S. Grove, High Output Management

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