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The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
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if you were sincere about changing the world, you set out to work on the systems at the root of your society’s troubles.
“There may be no better way to clear the diary of engagements than to wonder who among our acquaintances would make the trip to the hospital bed.”
― Status Anxiety
― Status Anxiety
“even in leadership positions, many women are still treated as less-worthy peers. They are expected to be grateful for their inclusion, as though they did not work even harder than their male counterparts to get there. They are spoken to as subordinates by less qualified colleagues. Their ideas are discredited until those same ideas are articulated by a male colleague and then, suddenly, they are seen as the best ideas.”
― The Bold New Normal: Creating The Africa Where Everyone Prospers
― The Bold New Normal: Creating The Africa Where Everyone Prospers
“We have learned the rules so well that we can now be the ones to break or rewrite them.”
― The Daily Laws: 366 Meditations
― The Daily Laws: 366 Meditations
“Right now, there is no other country on Earth with as much data as China, as many people as China, and as many electronics per capita. No other country is positioned to have a bigger economy than America’s within our lifetimes. No other country has more potential to influence our planet’s ecosystem, climate, and weather patterns—leading to survival or catastrophe—than China. No other country bridges both the developed and developing world like China does.”
― The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity
― The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity
“Remember to conduct yourself in life as if at a banquet,” Epictetus said. “As something being passed around comes to you, reach out your hand and take a moderate helping. Does it pass you by? Don’t stop it. It hasn’t yet come? Don’t burn in desire for it, but wait until it arrives in front of you. Act this way with children, a spouse, toward position, with wealth—one day it will make you worthy of a banquet with the gods.”
― Discipline Is Destiny: The Power of Self-Control
― Discipline Is Destiny: The Power of Self-Control
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