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“We seek status because we don’t know our own preferences,” Agnes Callard, a philosopher at the University of Chicago, told me. “When we don’t trust our own definition of what is good, we let other people define it for us.”
― Simone Stolzoff, The Good Enough Job: Reclaiming Life from Work

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“Trick #3—excitement is not the same thing as fulfillment”
― Thibaut Meurisse, Dopamine Detox : A Short Guide to Remove Distractions and Train Your Brain to Do Hard Things

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“It is precisely when the foundational structure of the self is shaken that we are in the best position to pursue new opportunities in our lives.”
― Scott Barry Kaufman, Transcend: The New Science of Self-Actualization

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“choosing curiosity (wondering what might happen next) over worry (hoping that a certain specific thing will happen next, and fearing it might not) whenever you can.”
― Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals

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“If you are under someone else’s power, you should have a say in how that power is used. That’s the world I believe in. That’s the world I want to build. And anyone who claims those as their principles is commanded to organize their workplace today.”
― Simone Stolzoff, The Good Enough Job: Reclaiming Life from Work

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