https://theamericanscholar.org/solitude-and-leadership/#.

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So it’s perfectly natural to have doubts, or questions, or even just difficulties.

The question is, what do you do with them? Do you suppress them, do you
distract yourself from them, do you pretend they don’t exist? Or do you
confront them directly, honestly, courageously? If you decide to do so, you will
find that the answers to these dilemmas are not to be found on Twitter or
Comedy Central or even in The New York Times. They can only be found within
—without distractions, without peer pressure, in solitude.

Eleanor Roosevelt

“Learn from the mistakes of others. You cannot live long enough to make them
all yourself.”

Topher Kearby

"When you're working towards something, when you're planning, when you're
dreaming, when you're putting things in place to change your life, you will have
difficult days and impossible moments and weight will sit on your chest and
make it feel as though you can't breathe. It is in that moment that you have to
decide, what you are really made of !"

The Great

I would rather term it as “Developing my strengths”, than, “Fixing my

weaknesses.”
They say, “I’ll start focusing on other areas of my life when I make this much
money a year.” But the problem is that when you start getting paid, and seeing
money as a promotion mechanism, an incentive, this increases the saliency of
the performance. This leads you to want to get paid even more money, and so
you become hyper-focused on the incentive and your reference points start to
change. This is why I argue that, sure, it’s possible—you might have more time
in the future. But maybe that future never comes. Maybe something happens
before you get to reap the five years of glorious retirement that we’re all
banking on. Maybe you’re never able to get out of this cycle of getting
rewarded for high-quality performance, with more money making you want
more money, continuing this cycle, which research is pretty strongly suggesting
happens to many people who are under these kinds of performance awards,
going after money for prestige and external factors.

http://nautil.us/issue/92/frontiers/how-to-stop-feeling-crushed-for-time?
mc_cid=e6cd2fa557&mc_eid=5a761577bc

Prasad Sawant

When students say quantitative ability is my problem, it’s a generic statement.

Be specific and say: I don’t know Logarithms. The next question is if you don’t
know a topic, how much effort is required to get to a fair level? Logarithms, for
example, takes about 3-4 hours to understand and remember the basic
identities and solve about 30 odd questions. If I can manage that, I will be able
to add Logarithms to the list of topics that I am comfortable with. In most of
the cases, I’ve observed that when students decide to do something and
actually sit down, they are able to do it. But the problem is taking that first step
towards improvement because that’s where you need to overcome the
resistance.
Jacob Riis

When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at

his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet
at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that last
blow that did it, but all that had gone before.

Julian Baggini -

If preferences were free, unconstrained choices, we would never be able to

know what anyone would like.

https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/philosophy/david-hume-paradox-
philosophy-politics-mistakes

I don’t mean to sound dystopian here, but given this dynamic, it seems inevitable
that we start defining ourselves by what we’re able to produce, while everything
else goes by the wayside. When Heidegger referred to nature as a “standing
reserve” of resources awaiting our usage, it feels like we’re beginning to view
ourselves this way as well. We delude ourselves into thinking that the products of
our labour are what makes us useful and needed, while things like friendship and
love are “nice-to-haves” or “I’ll-get-to-it-when-my-career-has-taken-off”
afterthoughts.

https://moretothat.com/the-omnipresence-of-work/

The history of science shows us that our minds have always exceeded our
wallets. Inventing is one thing; adopting it is another. Inventors need marketing
and funding for mass distribution, meaning many great ideas languish in the
historical rubbish bin.

https://ronancray.medium.com/were-humans-more-advanced-before-us-
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