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Jonathan Putera

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“Great is better than terrible, and terrible is better than mediocre, because terrible at least gives life flavor.”
― Ray Dalio, Principles: Summary

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“Inflection points come in all forms: positive, negative, easy, hard, obvious, and subtle. The way you respond—whether you grab hold of an inflection point and leverage it for all it’s worth or just let it carry you along—is as important as the event itself.”
― Eric C. Sinoway, Howard's Gift: Uncommon Wisdom to Inspire Your Life's Work

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“But the saddest difference between them was that Zazetsky, as Luria said, 'fought to regain his lost faculties with the indomitable tenacity of the damned,' whereas Dr P. was not fighting, did not know what was lost. But who was more tragic, or who was more damned -- the man who knew it, or the man who did not?”
― Oliver Sacks, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales

tags: inspirational, science

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“Juggling and balancing effectively required that we make clear, legacy-driven choices about what we're trying to keep in the air and how we sequence our movements down the beam. Because the ultimate grade in life is not based on how far and fast we've walked the beam or how many things we’ve juggled—it’s based on how much we've enjoyed the exercise.”
― Eric C. Sinoway, Howard's Gift: Uncommon Wisdom to Inspire Your Life's Work

tags: busyness, juggling, legacy, life-lessons

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“Standard economics assumes that we are rational... But, as the results presented in this book (and others) show, we are far less rational in our decision making... Our irrational behaviors arevneither random nor senseless- they are systematic and predictable. We all make the same types of mistakes over and over, because of he basic wiring of our brains.-pg. 239”
― Dan Ariely, Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions

tags: behavioral-economics, educational, inspriational

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