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Our actions may be impeded . . . but there can be no impeding our intentions or dispositions. Because we can accommodate and adapt. The mind adapts and converts to its own purposes the obstacle to our acting.
“I’ve discovered that even when you’re in charge, you are often much more effective asking questions than giving orders.”
― A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life
― A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life
“Sir Humphry Davy, an accomplished English chemist,”
― Benjamin Franklin's The Art of Virtue
― Benjamin Franklin's The Art of Virtue
“Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. —WINSTON CHURCHILL”
― Origin
― Origin
“pessimism-aversion trap: the misguided analysis that arises when you are overwhelmed by a fear of confronting potentially dark realities, and the resulting tendency to look the other way.”
― The Coming Wave: AI, Power, and Our Future
― The Coming Wave: AI, Power, and Our Future
“Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.”
― Dead Fall
― Dead Fall
Stranger Than Finance - A Book Club
— 58 members
— last activity Oct 19, 2022 10:28AM
Join us as a fellow explorer of the wide and wild world of finance. We begin by reading the winning books put forward by the FT/McKinsey Award.
Brian’s 2025 Year in Books
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