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One of the best feelings from reading is when you find a sentence so good that you have to close the book and stare at the wall for a minute.

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Hello, May.

A new month to begin again.
...with more clarity, intention, and discipline.

And to everyone showing up, building, working, and pushing forward…
Happy Workers’ Day.

Your effort matters. Even the quiet ones.
Let this month be steady.

Let it be intentional.
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One book you never get tired of reading 🎤

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@AuthorGFAllen Have you seen what I wrote?!!

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@her_eloquence Going through the comments, I'm afraid but more than half of them are correct

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'Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.'

Comfort is a cage with no visible bars.
Movement shows you what's actually holding you

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5 Books Recommended by 5 Billionaires

1) Charlie Munger - Titan by Ron Chernow
“One of the best business biographies I’ve ever read.”

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Reading books is the antidote to brainrot.
Reading books is the antidote to brainrot.
Reading books is the antidote to brainrot.
Reading books is the antidote to brainrot.
Reading books is the antidote to brainrot.
Reading books is the antidote to brainrot.

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Choose your hard

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The best way to learn is to teach...

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

Teaching is the best way to learn.

Illustration: @junhanchin

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“Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.” - Ralph Marston

Skills can be inconsistent. Attitude isn’t.

Excellence shows in the small things:
how you respond, show up, and follow through, even when no one is watching.

Most people don’t lack talent. They lack consistency in standards.

What’s one thing you’ll do with more excellence today?

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15 books to fall in love with classic literature:

1) The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
2) Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
3) Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
4) The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
5) 1984 by George Orwell
6) Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
7) The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
8) Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
9) Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
10) Lord of the Flies by William Golding
11) Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
12) The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
13) All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
14) Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
15) East of Eden by John Steinbeck

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15 books to fall in love with classic literature:

1) The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
2) Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
3) Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
4) The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
5) 1984 by George Orwell
6) Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
7) The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
8) Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
9) Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
10) Lord of the Flies by William Golding
11) Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
12) The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
13) All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
14) Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
15) East of Eden by John Steinbeck

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'The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.'

You're literally talking to history's greatest thinkers for the cost of one coffee...

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Today is World Book Day

Be honest… what book have you read today?

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“Books are the training weights of the mind.”

–Epictetus

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Reading>>>

[blue @bluewmist]

What is something relatively cheap that improves your life by 100%?

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3 weeks of showing up.

Most people don't make it past day 4.

The fact that you're still here, imperfectly, inconsistently, puts you in genuinely rare company.

Own that ❤️

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Growth is not always visible.

The roots are deeper than the surface shows.

Keep building.
December-you is going to be very grateful for April-you's stubbornness.