Alex

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Alex’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for The Outward Mindset: Seeing Beyond Ourselves

The Outward Mindset: Seeing Beyond Ourselves by Arbinger Institute

1 note & 29 highlights

the biggest lever for change is not a change in self-belief but a fundamental change in the way one sees and regards one’s connections with and obligations to others.

See Alex’s 6 books with notes and highlights…

“Helium is widely recognized as an over-the-counter, low-density gas that, when inhaled, temporarily increases the vibrational frequency of your windpipe and larynx, making you sound like Mickey Mouse.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson, Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

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“The odd American idea that giving money to political campaigns is free speech means that the very rich have far more free speech, and so in effect far more voting power, than other citizens.”
― Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

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“The more we are able to create space between stimulus and reaction, the more control we will have over our emotional lives.”
― Chade-Meng Tan, Search Inside Yourself: The Unexpected Path to Achieving Success, Happiness

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“Democracy is even more important for what it prevents than for what it provides.”
― Clive James

tags: democracy

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“If disease is an expression of individual life under unfavorable conditions, then epidemics must be indicative of mass disturbances of mass life.”
― Tracy Kidder, Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World

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