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Human beings have an extraordinary capacity to ignore risks that threaten their livelihood, as though this will make them go away.
“Mozart’s earliest symphonies, brief works written when he was just eight, hew closely to the style of Johann Christian Bach, with whom he was studying when they were written. None of these works is regarded today as great music or even close.”
― Talent is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else
― Talent is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else
“What farmers could profitably raise at any given location would depend on two key variables: how much people in the city were willing to pay for different crops, and how much it cost to transport those crops to market.”
― Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West
― Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West
“business that makes and sells durable goods faces a problem: As soon as everyone who wants the product has it, then there is no need for more.”
― The Design of Everyday Things
― The Design of Everyday Things
“What you want—really, deeply want—is fundamental because deliberate practice is a heavy investment.”
― Talent is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else
― Talent is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else
“Repeatedly in the nineteenth century, western cities came into being when eastern capital created remote colonies in landscapes that as yet contained relatively few people. Movements of capital helped explain why large cities developed so much more quickly in the West than Turner’s evolutionary frontier stages suggest.”
― Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West
― Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West
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