Peroikos

“The reason that most people don’t possess these extraordinary physical capabilities isn’t because they don’t have the capacity for them, but rather because they’re satisfied to live in the comfortable rut of homeostasis and never do the work that is required to get out of it. They live in the world of “good enough.” The same thing is true for all the mental activities we engage in,”
― K. Anders Ericsson, Peak: How to Master Almost Anything

“What do you think is going to happen?"
"What we make happen," says Joseph—again, with resolution.
"That's easy to say," says Frank.
"Not if you mean it," says Joseph.”
― James Baldwin, If Beale Street Could Talk

“In a fascinating treatise on teenage behavior in Brandeis magazine, former Psychology Today editor in chief Robert Epstein, PhD, wrote that “there is overwhelming evidence from multiple fields that adolescence is caused by cultural practices, not the brain. These practices do two things to young people well past puberty: infantilize them—that is, control and restrict them as if they were still children—and isolate them from responsible adults, trapping them in the inane world of teen culture.”
― Marc Bloom, Amazing Racers: The Story of America's Greatest Running Team and its Revolutionary Coach

“Did ye so? said Sir Meliagaunce, then I will abide by it: I love Queen Guenever, what will ye with it? I will prove and make good that she is the fairest lady and most of beauty in the world. As to that, said Sir Lamorak, I say nay thereto, for Queen Morgawse of Orkney, mother to Sir Gawaine, and his mother is the fairest queen and lady that beareth the life. That is not so, said Sir Meliagaunce, and that will I prove with my hands upon thy body. Will ye so? said Sir Lamorak, and in a better quarrel keep I not to fight. Then they departed either from other in great wrath.”
― Thomas Malory, Le Morte d'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table