“The passive ironic attitude is not cool or romantic, but pathetic and destructive.”
― Mastery
― Mastery
“what you pay attention to will define, for you, what reality is.”
― Four Thousand Weeks: Time and How to Use It
― Four Thousand Weeks: Time and How to Use It
“Only one form of contagion travels faster than a virus. And that's fear.”
― Inferno
― Inferno
“Just as a well-filled day brings blessed sleep, so a well-employed life brings a blessed death.”
― Mastery
― Mastery
“A natural response when people feel overwhelmed is to retreat into various forms of passivity. If we don’t try too much in life, if we limit our circle of action, we can give ourselves the illusion of control. The less we attempt, the less chances of failure. If we can make it look like we are not really responsible for our fate, for what happens to us in life, then our apparent powerlessness is more palatable.”
― Mastery
― Mastery
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