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Clarity & Connection, by Yung Pueblo
we often hand our tension over to others without understanding that it wasn’t ours to begin with.
someone passed it to us, and so we pass it to the next person, and they to the next, until it lands in the hands of someone with the tools to process it and let it go.
I just finished this book and thought it was outstanding. I’ll try to include more quotes from it in the future.
If the book description in this link interests you, I recommend reading it.
Peter Atwater (h/t Grant Williams)
“Just a reminder, decisions made by committees are always a lagging indicator of sentiment.
Achieving consensus takes time.
Even in a crisis, committee decisions of generals lag sentiment of the troops.”
Stephen Fry (h/t Jim O’Shaughnessy)
“You are who you are when nobody’s watching.”
Angela Duckworth - from the No Stupid Questions podcast
On the futility of comparing ourselves to others in the social media era when we can see what everyone in the world is doing:
It’s hard to be a big fish in an infinite pond.
Grant’s Interest Rate Observer
“Humility in the face of the future is ever the rule.”
Benjamin Disraeli
“Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.”
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