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Scott Lake
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In that year, Marce was forty-three, Jim Stedman twenty-five years older. He had been, from Marce’s boyhood, the neighbor, the older friend and teacher, that a hard-headed boy needs as recourse from his father—as, in fact, an ally of his
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“many people are overconfident, prone to place too much faith in their intuitions. They apparently find cognitive effort at least mildly unpleasant and avoid it as much as possible.”
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
“Novelty is a new kind of loneliness.”
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“We are often confident even when we are wrong, and an objective observer is more likely to detect our errors than we are.”
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
“The human ego prefers anything, just about anything, to falling or changing or dying. The ego is that part of you that loves the status quo, even when it is not working. It attaches to past and present, and fears the future.”
― Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life
― Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life
“Telling a story is like reaching into a granary full of wheat and drawing out a handful. There is always more to tell than can be told.”
― Jayber Crow
― Jayber Crow
Scott’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Scott’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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