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Think Like a Rocket Scientist: Simple Strategies You Can Use to Make Giant Leaps in Work and Life
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“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world,” George Bernard Shaw famously said, but “the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”90
“The average man is hooked to his fellow men, while the warrior is hooked only to infinity.”
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“You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
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To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
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“The most effective way to live is as a warrior. A warrior may worry and think before making any decision, but once he makes it, he goes his way, free from worries or thoughts; there will be a million other decisions still awaiting him. That's the warrior's way.”
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“Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.”
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“We have been to the moon, we have charted the depths of the ocean and the heart of the atom, but we have a fear of looking inward to ourselves because we sense that is where all the contradictions flow together.”
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Carlos’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Carlos’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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49 friends
744 books
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491 books
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70 friends
329 books
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619 books
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762 books
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148 books
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98 friends
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