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“Whereas experts spend more time diagnosing the situation and less time choosing a course of action, novices are inclined to focus on possible actions at the expense of situation assessment.”
― Emma Barrett, Extreme: Why some people thrive at the limits

“there is good scientific evidence that meditation is an effective way to improve the skill of controlling attention and ignoring distractions. It also offers a range of other practical benefits that are relevant both in extreme environments and everyday life.”
― Emma Barrett, Extreme: Why some people thrive at the limits

“Where there are wars, there will be crows, the carrion-fanciers. And ravens too, the warbirds, the eyeball gourmands. And vultures, the holy birds of yore, old connoisseurs of rot.”
― Margaret Atwood, MaddAddam

“What had really given birth to the Romantic Movement in the history of human ideas was affluence—an increase in the number of people who had plenty enough to eat, enough education to read and write, and time to ruminate on their own personal emotions.”
― Anne Rice, Prince Lestat