“we are nothing more or less than the cumulative biological and environmental luck, over which we had no control, that has brought us to any moment.”
― Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
― Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
“Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.”
― Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity
― Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity
“You cannot decide all the sensory stimuli in your environment, your hormone levels this morning, whether something traumatic happened to you in the past, the socioeconomic status of your parents, your fetal environment, your genes, whether your ancestors were farmers or herders. Let me state this most broadly, probably at this point too broadly for most readers: we are nothing more or less than the cumulative biological and environmental luck, over which we had no control, that has brought us to any moment.”
― Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
― Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
“In fact, crying at appropriate times is one of the biggest signs of mental strength, as people who are struggling often find it difficult to release their feelings and be vulnerable.”
― The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery
― The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery
“Instead of reaching a conclusion about a person based on the limited information you have about them, consider that you’re not seeing the whole picture and don’t know the whole story.”
― The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery
― The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery
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