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the most effective and most powerful types of practice in any field work by harnessing the adaptability of the human body and brain to create, step by step, the ability to do things that were previously not possible.
“we know how to treat our own friends with a sympathy and imagination that we don’t apply to ourselves.”
― The School of Life: An Emotional Education
― The School of Life: An Emotional Education
“Think of it this way: There are two kinds of failure. The first comes from never trying out your ideas because you are afraid, or because you are waiting for the perfect time. This kind of failure you can never learn from, and such timidity will destroy you. The second kind comes from a bold and venturesome spirit. If you fail in this way, the hit that you take to your reputation is greatly outweighed by what you learn. Repeated failure will toughen your spirit and show you with absolute clarity how things must be done.”
― Mastery
― Mastery
“Any idea of the normal currently in circulation is not an accurate map of what is customary for a human to be.”
― The School of Life: An Emotional Education
― The School of Life: An Emotional Education
“Remember, always, that everything you know, and everything everyone knows, is only a model. Get your model out there where it can be viewed. Invite others to challenge your assumptions and add their own.”
― Thinking In Systems: A Primer
― Thinking In Systems: A Primer
“No matter what happened to you in your past, you are not your past, you are the resources and the capabilities you glean from it. And that is the basis for all change.”
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