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Understanding who you are and what you want is an ongoing process. It ends when life ends. You can never 100% know yourself. That’s the most important thing about self-knowledge.
“I'm impossible to forget, but I'm hard to remember.”
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“It’s like, you write a book, you want it to be well received, you want it to be at the top of the bestsellers list, but you have limited control over what happens. You can hire a publicist, you can do every interview, you can be prepared, but you have very little control over the marketplace. So you put it out there without attachment, so it has its own life. Everything is like that.”
― 10% Happier
― 10% Happier
“Striving is fine, as long as it’s tempered by the realization that, in an entropic universe, the final outcome is out of your control. If you don’t waste your energy on variables you cannot influence, you can focus much more effectively on those you can. When you are wisely ambitious, you do everything you can to succeed, but you are not attached to the outcome—so that if you fail, you will be maximally resilient, able to get up, dust yourself off, and get back in the fray. That, to use a loaded term, is enlightened self-interest.”
― 10% Happier
― 10% Happier
Art’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Art’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
339 books
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59 friends
295 books
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155 books
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97 friends
3 books
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78 friends
11 books
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41 friends
125 books
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0 books
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116 friends
1 book
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242 friends
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