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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

by Yuval Noah Harari

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Mar 16, 2026 06:42PM

“Without enjoyment life can be endured, and it can even be pleasant. But it can be so only precariously, depending on luck and the cooperation of the external environment. To gain personal control over the quality of experience, however, one needs to learn how to build enjoyment into what happens day in, day out.”
― Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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“The only test of rationality is not whether a person's beliefs and preferences are reasonable, but whether they are internally consistent.”
― Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

tags: behavioral-economics, psychology, rationality

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“It’s that you are disliked by someone. It is proof that you are exercising your freedom and living in freedom, and a sign that you are living in accordance with your own principles.”
― Ichiro Kishimi, The Courage to Be Disliked: The Japanese Phenomenon That Shows You How to Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness

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“If you’ve never experienced the misery of failure, the chances are pretty good that you haven’t tried very hard to succeed. I’ve never met anyone who has made it to the top—and managed to stay there—who didn’t first taste the bitterness of defeat, usually many defeats.”
― Robert Ringer, Looking Out for #1: How to Get from Where You Are Now to Where You Want to Be in Life

tags: defears, inspirational, self-help, success

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“Much of contemporary "realism" turns out to be just a variation on good old fashioned fatalism: people feel relieved of responsibility by recourse to the concept of 'nature'. By nature, however, we are born ignorant. Therefore should we try not to learn? Some people produce more than the usual amount of androgens and therefore become excessively aggressive. Does that mean we should freely express violence? We cannot. Submission to genetic programming can become dangerous, because it leaves us helpless.”
― Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience

tags: autonomy, inspirational, power, psychology

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