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“History, memory is by definition fiction. Once an event is no longer present, but remembered, it is a narrative. And we can choose the narratives we tell- about our own lives, our own stories, our own relationships. We can choose the chapters we give meaning.

“One meeting, one moment in your life that will never happen again. We could meet again, but you have to praise this moment because in one year, we’ll have a new experience, and we will be different people…because we are changed.”

When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure”

Reduce friction associated with good behaviors. When friction is low, habits are easy. Increase friction associated with bad habits.

When changing your habits means challenging the tribe, change is unattractive. When changing your habits means fitting in with the tribe, change is very attractive.

Whatever your identity is right now, you only believe it because you have proof of it.

“I love you because the entire universe conspires to help me find you”

“People like to think we’re unrealistic. They don’t know we’re crazy.”

There is no innovation without failure.

“I wonder if you know that, as a teacher, you are either engaged in incarceration prevention or incarceration expansion. It’s just that real”

Am I done yet? How do people enjoy this? Although the vocabulary is strong.

Challenging, but necessary.

“There is only the liturgy of habit, knowing what comes next so that you are never pulled out of the constructed experience of worship.”