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Book cover for The Mental Toughness Handbook: A Step-By-Step Guide to Facing Life's Challenges, Managing Negative Emotions, and Overcoming Adversity with Courage and Poise
Circumstances always change. And they often do so as a result of our actions.
Akshay
Is this true? How much control do we really have over changing circumstances that have the biggest effects on our lives?
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Ayad Akhtar
“America had begun as a colony and that a colony it remained, that is, a place still defined by its plunder, where enrichment was paramount and civil order always an afterthought.”
Ayad Akhtar, Homeland Elegies

Ayad Akhtar
“Every good story has the same shape. The beginning establishes a goal, the more tangible the better. In the middle we watch the fight toward that goal. The end is what happens when it’s been reached, or when reaching it’s finally failed. What I always say when I teach is: the longer the middle, the better the story. The middle is when we still don’t know the outcome. That’s when we care the most about what’s happening. The longer you can keep the audience engaged in the pursuit without actually resolving that pursuit—that’s real mastery.”
Ayad Akhtar, Homeland Elegies

Ayad Akhtar
“You see, bhai, the effects of war are always personal, but in fact, war is the least personal thing there”
Ayad Akhtar, Homeland Elegies

Sara  Ackerman
“Maybe that was the secret to dying—to live a life with so much heart that, when you go, you are never really gone.”
Sara Ackerman, The Codebreaker's Secret

Ayad Akhtar
“She was put off that everyone always asked where she was from and never seemed bothered that they had no idea what she was talking about when she told them.”
Ayad Akhtar, Homeland Elegies

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