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"Competition can make people hallucinate opportunities where none exist."

So hilarious hahahaha

There's 800 pages of this?!!!

Omg so boring the author is over describing it's so exhausting can I even finish this

I feel like there could be a lot more depth and world-building before this. I'm not convinced as to why and how the people in this book behave this way. It feels grotesque without meaning.

Okay the first 40 pages made sense but after 60, it feels a little bit like mumbo jumbo to me. I'm a finisher, and this is one of the 3 books I've given up in my lifetime.

But, in those 40 pages, I was really enlightened. I love how he talks about the transition to successful liberation by explaining how people tend to find familiarity and the linguistic differences between unhiddenness and correctness.

My heart breaks for Bella and Felix.

Pretty exciting so far... But I do get lost in some of the events and find it tough to materialize the situation in my head..

"The mind is its own place, and in itself,
Can make a Heaven of Hell, or a Hell of Heaven."

"No tree can grow to Heaven unless it's roots reach down to Hell." Carl Gustav

"There is something about memory. It's not a video recording. It's subjective. It's a culturally relevant account of what happened. It doesn't matter if it's accurate; it matters if it's important in some way to You. If it teaches you something you need to learn."

"If this expedition is successful, it will be due to you, my ministers; and, if not, I alone am to blame."

'I am only able to lie if I know the truth deep enough to be capable of hiding it.'

'We all have roots, and if we cut them off, we die.'

'Enlightenment is a continual process, one that he struggles toward daily.'

"I do envision money going obsolete. I envision communal living, and it already exists in every society. We must cultivate it until it chokes our selfish system naturally."

'If I can overcome what people think of me, I can overcome anything.'

'He's a master at understanding philosophical concepts and different paradigms, and being able to talk to people using their own lens and vocabulary."

'Our whole society is designed so that you have to have money. You have to be a part of the capitalist system. It's illegal to live outside of it.'

I have the actual 40 year old copy from 1979 with me now, I hope the pages don't disintegrate while I'm reading it. Got it from a farmer's market in Melbourne.

'It's better to die for an idea that will live, than to live for an idea that will die.' - Stephen Biko

Emotional inspiration > motivation > desirable action (No)

Action > Motivation > Inspiration > Better actions (Yes) This is how I've been solving problems all my life.

'The desire for a more positive experience is itself a negative experience. And, paradoxically, the acceptance of one's negative experience is itself a positive experience.'

"People are harder to sum up if you know them well."

"Everyone had a future, but not everyone had a fate-"

Whether it's a quiet whisper or a thunderous roar, you are more tuned in to the inner voice that steers you in the right direction.

Bill's reason for respecting the sanctity of the technical hierarchy stemmed from his core belief that the best way to motivate software engineers was to have them supervised by people who were more technically qualified, whom they would learn from and respect.

Bill Gates' name for this violation was the "inverted hierarchy', a situation in which a technical manager reports to a boss who is less technically qualified.

What a title. Lol.

'Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom of making mistakes."