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Alain de Botton
“We don't really learn anything properly until there is a problem, until we are in pain, until something fails to go as we had hoped ... We suffer, therefore we think.”
Alain de Botton, How Proust Can Change Your Life

Cal Newport
“if you keep interrupting your evening to check and respond to e-mail, or put aside a few hours after dinner to catch up on an approaching deadline, you’re robbing your directed attention centers of the uninterrupted rest they need for restoration. Even if these work dashes consume only a small amount of time, they prevent you from reaching the levels of deeper relaxation in which attention restoration can occur. Only the confidence that you’re done with work until the next day can convince your brain to downshift to the level where it can begin to recharge for the next day to follow. Put another way, trying to squeeze a little more work out of your evenings might reduce your effectiveness the next day enough that you end up getting less done than if you had instead respected a shutdown.”
Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

Gay Hendricks
“Criticism and blame are addictions. They are costly addictions, because they are the number-one destroyer of intimacy in close relationships.”
Gay Hendricks, The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level

Gay Hendricks
“Each of us has an inner thermostat setting that determines how much love, success, and creativity we allow ourselves to enjoy. When we exceed our inner thermostat setting, we will often do something to sabotage ourselves, causing us to drop back into the old, familiar zone where we feel secure. Unfortunately,”
Gay Hendricks, The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level

Alain de Botton
“Love is an incurable disease. In love, there is permanent suffering. Those who love and those who are happy are not the same.”
Alain de Botton, How Proust Can Change Your Life

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