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What Is Zen?: Plain Talk for a Beginner's Mind by Norman Fischer.
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There is no way to happiness--happiness is the way." -THICH NHAT HANH Vietnamese Buddhist monk and Nobel"
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When I'm old, how much would I be willing to pay to travel back in time and relive the moment that I'm experiencing right now?
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Muneeb Ali
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Leonard Cohen, even though when I met him I was too tongue-tied to say anything. Anyway, I've given away a number of copies of his Book of Longing, since it articulates a sense of the compassionate
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To have an uncommon lifestyle, you need to develop the uncommon habit of making decisions, both for yourself and for others.
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If you want to help people, ask why they are in so much pain that they are driven (there's that word again) to escape from it through ultimately self-harming habits or substances.
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The X1 Search program: instant, precision searching by independent criteria (not just Google-style search string goulash) to pinpoint my files and emails going back to the 1980s. As info explodes, and my memory doesn't get better, it's a godsend.
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If I am not for myself, who will be for me? But if I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now, when?" -Rabbi Hillel"
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The elites sneer at commerce as tawdry, but it's what gives people what they want and need, and pays for everything else, including the luxury of art.
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36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction by Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
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The Strategy of Conflict by Thomas C. Schelling The Science of Words by George A. Miller Retreat from Doomsday by John Mueller The Nurture Assumption by Judith Rich Harris The Evolution of Human Sexuality by Donald Symons Knowledge and Decisions by Thomas Sowell Clear and Simple as the Truth by Francis Noel-Thomas and Mark Turner
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The Female Brain by Louann Brizendine.
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One model that Whitney likes is the large weighted blanket from Weighted Blankets Plus LLC.]
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if we're serious all the time, we'll wear out before we get the truly serious stuff done.
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Sharpening your logical and practical mental toolbox is not being an atheist or unspiritual.
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You realize that you will never be the best-looking person in the room. You'll never be the smartest person in the room. You'll never be the most educated, the most well-versed. You can never compete on those levels. But what you can always compete on, the true egalitarian aspect to success, is hard work. You can always work harder than the next guy.
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Brian Koppelman mentioned that he considers Haruki Murakami the world's best writer of fiction. To boot, Murakami is an excellent long-distance runner. Here is what Murakami has to say about running, which can be applied to anything: Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
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The secret to winning any game lies in not trying too hard.
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Treadmills kill your spirit.
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Homo Deus: A Brief History of
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The genuine love for reading itself, when cultivated, is a superpower. We live in the age of Alexandria, when every book and every piece of knowledge ever written down is a fingertip away. The means of learning are abundant--it's the desire to learn that's scarce.
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The player of the inner game comes to value the art of relaxed concentration above all other skills; he discovers the true basis for self-confidence; and he learns that the secret to winning any game lies in not trying too hard.
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THE DANGER OF BIG QUESTIONS Most of the time, "What should I do with my life?" is a terrible question. "What should I do with this tennis serve?" "What should I do with this line at Starbucks?" "What should I do with this traffic jam?" "How should I respond to the anger I feel welling up in my chest?" These are better questions. Excellence is the next five minutes, improvement is the next five minutes, happiness is the next five minutes."
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As Brandon Stanton put it, "Sometimes you need to allow life to save you from what you want."
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Nunca automatices lo que pueda eliminarse y nunca delegues algo que pueda automatizarse o racionalizarse.
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Dealing with the temporary frustration of not making progress is an integral part of the path towards excellence. In fact, it is essential and something that every single elite athlete has had to learn to deal with. If the pursuit of excellence was easy, everyone would do it. In fact, this impatience in dealing with frustration is the primary reason that most people fail to achieve their goals. Unreasonable expectations timewise, resulting ..
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Breathturn" by Hammock "Your Hand in Mine" by Explosions in the Sky "Devi Prayer" by Craig Pruess and Ananda "Horizon" by Tycho "Recurring" by Bonobo "Hanging On" by Active Child "Long Time Sun" by Snatam Kaur "Angels Prayer" by Ty Burhoe, James Hoskins, Cat McCarthy, Manorama, and Janaki Kagel "Twentytwofourteen" by The Album Leaf"
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A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days." -Annie Dillard"
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The key to a great life is simply having a bunch of great days. So you can think about it one day at a time." Mr. Money Mustache"
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Pete started writing about his philosophy on the Mr. Money Mustache blog, which has grown to reach about 23 million people (and 300 million page views) since its founding. It has become a worldwide cult phenomenon with a self-organizing
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That Motel Weekend by James Donner, The Srimad Devi Bhagavatam, and The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka.
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Should We All Take a Bit of Lithium?" The New York Times (Sept. 13, 2014)."
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Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene,
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Gain a language and you gain a second lens through which to question and understand the world.
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Many students come to me full of wonderful intentions hoping to change the world; they plan to spend their time helping the poor and disadvantaged. I tell them to first graduate and make a lot of money, and only then figure out how best to help those in need. Too often students can't meaningfully help the disadvantaged now, even if it makes them feel good for trying to. I have seen so many former students in their late 30s and 40s strugglin..
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Creativity operates differently. You work hard because you're inspired to, not because you have to. Work becomes fun, and you have energy for days because this life is not a "young man's game." It is an "inspired person's game."
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often in people's 30s or 40s, a stage where you begin crafting your own language for what you do as an increasingly "strong poet"--you make your craft your own and view your life as more self-expression than simply playing out other people's roles for you."
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The War of Art by Steven Pressfield. This book has a magical, activating quality
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Of the many, many excuses people use to rationalize why they can't do something, the excuse "I am too busy" is not only the most inauthentic, it is also the laziest. I"
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Buddhists believe that we are the cause of our own suffering. We can't control the fact that bad things are going to happen, but it's how we react to them that really matters, and that we can learn to control.
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It's not how well you play the game, it's deciding what game you want to play."--Kwame Appiah."
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Diversity in counsel, unity in command." -Cyrus the Great Founder of the Achaemenid Empire, known as the "king of Persia"
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The app Headspace is a fun way to start. Try and do it every day. But I suggest not doing it while you are walking . . . for now.
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