“it is a good thing to have to endure an agonizing experience occasionally. It is good to know that we have hit bottom and survived. That makes all our daily problems seem easy by comparison.”
― How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
― How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
“Rather than helping children to think for themselves, solve their own problems and develop trust in themselves, parents tend to treat children as possessions.”
― Your Erroneous Zones
― Your Erroneous Zones
“In the absence of clear indicators of what it means to be productive and valuable in their jobs, many knowledge workers turn back toward an industrial indicator of productivity: doing lots of stuff in a visible manner.”
― Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
― Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
“I have revised some folk wisdom lately; one of my edited proverbs is Nothing fails like success because you do not learn anything from it. The only thing we ever learn from is failure. Success only confirms our superstitions.”
― Your Erroneous Zones
― Your Erroneous Zones
“have you really lived 10,000 or more days or have you lived one day, 10,000 or more times?”
― Your Erroneous Zones
― Your Erroneous Zones
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