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“We now know that gut microbes are part of this axis, in both directions. Since the 1970s, a trickle of studies have shown that any kind of stress – starvation, sleeplessness, being separated from one’s mother, the sudden arrival of an aggressive individual, uncomfortable temperatures, overcrowding, even loud noises – can change a mouse’s gut microbiome. The opposite is also true: the microbiome can affect a host’s behaviour, including its social attitudes and its ability to deal with stress.40”
― Ed Yong, I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life

“Mediocrity has become something that’s acceptable,” Keller says, “and in many cases, something that is aspirational.” To”
― Dan Charnas, Work Clean: The life-changing power of mise-en-place to organize your life, work, and mind

“If you don’t prioritize your life, someone else will.”
― Greg McKeown, Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

“I am subject to constant criticism all day long,” the president told me in our Oval Office discussion. “And some of it may be legitimate; much of it may be illegitimate. Some of it may be sincere; some of it may be entirely politically motivated. If I spent all my time thinking about it, I’d be paralyzed. And frankly, the voters would justifiably say, ‘I need somebody who’s focused on giving me a job, not whether his feelings are hurt.”
― Michael Eric Dyson, The Black Presidency: Barack Obama and the Politics of Race in America