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"The real value of any self-help book is the behavior changes/actions taken based on the common sense that was just delivered to you. We adults, just like kids, could use some coaching/nagging/nudging or whatever you want to call it. That’s the reason why we buy self-help books. To have someone else repeat things we already know back to us, hoping that will make us change." — Apr 14, 2024 03:54PM
"The real value of any self-help book is the behavior changes/actions taken based on the common sense that was just delivered to you. We adults, just like kids, could use some coaching/nagging/nudging or whatever you want to call it. That’s the reason why we buy self-help books. To have someone else repeat things we already know back to us, hoping that will make us change." — Apr 14, 2024 03:54PM
Why should some product defer to our desires? How does the person who created that object come to understand what I want to begin with? What can go wrong in translating our desires into artifacts?
“The human being is only a reed, the most feeble in nature; but this is a thinking reed. It isn't necessary for the entire universe to arm itself in order to crush him; a whiff of vapor, a taste of water, suffices to kill him. But when the universe crushes him, the human being becomes still more noble than that which kills him, because he knows that he is dying, and the advantage that the universe has over him. The universe, it does not have a clue.
"All our dignity consists, then, in thought. This is the basis on which we must raise ourselves, and not space and time, which we would not know how to fill. Let us make it our task, then, to think well: here is the principle of morality.”
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"All our dignity consists, then, in thought. This is the basis on which we must raise ourselves, and not space and time, which we would not know how to fill. Let us make it our task, then, to think well: here is the principle of morality.”
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“I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it's not the answer.”
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“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.”
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