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“Everything popular is wrong. —OSCAR WILDE, The Importance of Being Earnest”
― The 4-Hour Work Week: Escape the 9-5, Live Anywhere and Join the New Rich
― The 4-Hour Work Week: Escape the 9-5, Live Anywhere and Join the New Rich
“In places without clocks, time is measured by actions rather than action being measured by time.”
― Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
― Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
“It’s amazing how someone’s IQ seems to double as soon as you give them responsibility and indicate that you trust them.”
― The 4-Hour Workweek
― The 4-Hour Workweek
“Being busy is a form of laziness—lazy thinking and indiscriminate action.”
― The 4-Hour Workweek
― The 4-Hour Workweek
“thanks to a plethora of cognitive biases, faulty heuristics, and common fallacies of thought, you are probably deluding yourself minute by minute just to cope with reality.”
― You Are Not So Smart: Why You Have Too Many Friends on Facebook, Why Your Memory Is Mostly Fiction, and 46 Other Ways You're Deluding Yourself
― You Are Not So Smart: Why You Have Too Many Friends on Facebook, Why Your Memory Is Mostly Fiction, and 46 Other Ways You're Deluding Yourself
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