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What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

by Haruki Murakami

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Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

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“Arrogance is a very good thing to have when you’re starting, and that means saying to yourselves that you’re going to be the number one group, not the number two group.”
― Greg Brooks, Freddie Mercury: His Life in His Own Words

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“We can't become unique by copying someone else's formula any more than we can become successful by striving for someone else's definition of success. And really, what's the point of succeeding by someone else's rules anyway?”
― Reshma Saujani, Brave, Not Perfect: Fear Less, Fail More, and Live Bolder

tags: becoming-successful, striving, success, successful, unique

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“To assume the best about another is the trait that has created modern society. Those occasions when our trusting nature gets violated are tragic. But the alternative—to abandon trust as a defense against predation and deception—is worse.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know

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“One of the hallmarks of happiness is having close, meaningful connections with others. But keeping up a facade of having it all together keeps us isolated, because it keeps us from forging real, honest, deep relationships where we can fully be ourselves and feel accepted exactly as we are.”
― Reshma Saujani, Brave, Not Perfect: Fear Less, Fail More, and Live Bolder

tags: authenticity, honesty, isolation

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“But more than anything, they worried that since everyone was using different media ingredients, recipes, cells, and techniques, and few knew their peers’ methods, it would be difficult, if not impossible, to replicate one another’s experiments. And replication is an essential part of science: a discovery isn’t considered valid if others can’t repeat the work and get the same result.”
― Rebecca Skloot, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

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