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“Achievement is talent plus preparation”
― Outliers: The Story of Success
― Outliers: The Story of Success
“A key component of high-level learning is cultivating a resilient awareness that is the older, conscious embodiment of a child’s playful obliviousness.”
― The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance
― The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance
“Growth comes at the point of resistance. We learn by pushing ourselves and finding what really lies at the outer reaches of our abilities.”
― The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance
― The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance
“It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”
― The Complete Prose Works Of Ralph Waldo Emerson
― The Complete Prose Works Of Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Therefore: In dwelling, choose modest quarters, in thinking, value stillness, in dealing with others, be kind, in choosing words, be sincere, in leading, be just, in working, be competent, in acting, choose the correct timing. Follow these words and there will be no error.”
― Tao Te Ching
― Tao Te Ching
Brian’s 2025 Year in Books
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156 books
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221 books
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171 books
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