Natacha Pierre

“Pure hell forces action, but anything less can be endured with enough clever rationalization.”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

“The key is making your inner thoughts more real than the outer environment, because then the brain won’t know the difference between the two and will change to look as if the event has taken place. If you’re able to do this successfully enough times, you’ll transform your body and begin to activate new genes in new ways, producing epigenetic changes—just as though the imagined future event were real. And then you can walk right into that new reality and become the placebo.”
― Joe Dispenza, You Are the Placebo: Making Your Mind Matter

“goal is a specific objective that you either achieve or don’t sometime in the future. A system is something you do on a regular basis that increases your odds of happiness in the long run.”
― Scott Adams, How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life

“freedom would be severely restricted without the ability to fully participate in the economy. Black leaders stressed that emancipation would have to be followed by the accumulation of wealth if the black community was ever to achieve meaningful political equality.”
― Mehrsa Baradaran, The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap