“That on which you so pride yourself will be your ruin,” Montaigne”
― Ego Is the Enemy
― Ego Is the Enemy
“My friend Kira always said that life is like an extremely difficult, horribly unbalanced videogame. When you’re born, you’re given a randomly generated character, with a randomly determined name, race, face, and social class. Your body is your avatar, and you spawn in a random geographic location, at a random moment in human history, surrounded by a random group of people, and then you have to try to survive for as long as you can.”
― Ready Player Two
― Ready Player Two
“Certainty of success leads to boredom, and doubt creates anxiety. Depression results from certain doubt: the assessment that the gap between real and ideal can never be bridged.”
― Enhancing Trader Performance: Proven Strategies From the Cutting Edge of Trading Psychology
― Enhancing Trader Performance: Proven Strategies From the Cutting Edge of Trading Psychology
“Sometimes, immersed in his books, there would come to him the awareness of all that he did not know, of all that he had not read; and the serenity for which he labored was shattered as he realized the little time he had in life to read so much, to learn what he had to know.”
― Stoner
― Stoner
“If the definition of insanity is trying the same thing over and over and expecting different results, then passion is a form of mental retardation- deliberately blunting our most critical cognitive functions.”
― Ego Is the Enemy
― Ego Is the Enemy
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