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It’s all contradictions... Do I contradict myself? Very well then, I contradict myself. I am large, I contain multitudes. — Walt Whitman

[quale @qualiamind]

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[Orange Book 🍊📖 @orangebook]

A lot of things in life don't require your reaction.

[Dylan O'Sullivan @DylanoA4]

C. S. Lewis with maybe the most important paragraph ever written for people with creative ambitions

[Naval @naval]

A man expresses love through duty.

[Shobhit Shrivastava @shri_shobhit]

Octopuses are highly intelligent animals with 9(!) distributed brains.

But they never evolved into a dominant species primarily because they are born orphans and don't recieve any knowledge from family. The father dies after mating and the mother dies after the eggs hatch.

[Dr. Julie Gurner @drgurner]

If you have not read Zhou Qunfei's story (below), you should. She is sitting in the coveted seat beside Musk for a reason.

From a rural girl working in a factory to China's richest woman...unbelievable grit, and a force of nature.

Worth your time.

[Dr. Julie Gurner @drgurner]

"Hardship does not come to bury a man. It comes to measure him." - Epictetus

The world is filled with those who are buried.

The only way forward is through...
Be proudly measured by your Grit.
Bold actions, pushing forward, never stopping.

[The Ways of A Gentleman @Gentleman_Ways]

“A complete man must be an artist, a warrior, and a philosopher.”

-Benvenuto Cellini

[Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath]

Key to winning:

Choose to be positive and grateful. Then, just keep at it. Time is the great compounder and will do the rest.

So many people just don’t have the discipline to stay positive and grateful. Then time compounds the bitterness instead.

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

I’m in love with this sentence:

“Consistency looks like nothing is happening, until everything changes.”

[LindyMan @PaulSkallas]

When you have a job. When you're in the 4HL you don't have time for an identity.

What can you do with a few hours? One activity at most. Buy a few things.

There's a time limit on peoples lives. You can't expect too much from them

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

Marcus Aurelius wrote this over 1800 years ago:

“If it’s endurable, then endure it. Stop complaining.”

[Deep Psychology @DeepPsycho_HQ]

“Good men must know violence, so evil men do not become fluent in it”.

- Miyamoto Misashi

[Ronit Pereira @CAronitpereira]

“Attack life, it’s going to kill you anyways.”

- Steve McQueen

[Tim Urban @waitbutwhy]

The little guy on the branch is a purgatorius, one of the earliest primates, hoping the terrifying dinosaur doesn't see him. What a difference 66 million years makes.

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

“If you want to be successful, you must respect one rule – never lie to yourself.”

— Paulo Coelho

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

I’m in love with this sentence:

“The strongest version of you is buried under the habits you're afraid to break.”

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

James Clear on the power of daily habits:

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

“A man is what he thinks about all day.”—Emerson