Christine

“If you imagine complex, challenging possibilities, your brain will adapt to them. Much like a tiger trapped in a zoo exhibits repetitive displacement behavior, if you cage your imagination within the bars of the dull and neurotic, which often portray one’s fears more than they do an empirical “truth,” then your brain will adapt to these imagined meanings, too. Like the sad tiger pacing back and forth within its puny cage, your brain too will ruminate cyclically upon destructive meanings, and in doing so make them more significant than they might need to be. This present perceptual meaning becomes part of your future history of meanings, together with the meaning (and re-meanings) of past events, thus shaping your future perception. If you don’t want to let received contexts limit possibility, then you need to walk in the darkest forest of all—the one in your own skull—and face down the fear of ideas that challenge.”
― Beau Lotto, Deviate: 'A more accessible THINKING FAST AND SLOW' Wired

“To err is to wander, and wandering is the way we discover the world; and, lost in thought, it is also the way we discover ourselves. Being right might be gratifying, but in the end it is static, a mere statement. Being wrong is hard and humbling, and sometimes even dangerous, but in the end it is a journey, and a story.”
― Kathryn Schulz, Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error

“Everything can be seen directly except the eye through which we see.”
― E.F. Schumacher, A Guide for the Perplexed

“It is not about living idyllically in our
similarities, but about living peacefully and pleasurably in
our differences.”
― Kathryn Schulz, Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error