Once you learn how to die, you learn how to live
Know you’re going to die, and be prepared for it at any time. That way you can actually be more involved in your life while you’re living
- Tuesdays with Morrie, Albom
Don’t chase the wrong things in life
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The four most important questions for a life well lived?:
The four most important questions for a life well lived?:
- have you found someone to share your heart with?
- are you giving to your community?
- are you at peace with yourself?
- are you trying to be as human as you can be?
Albom - Tuesdays with Morrie
Don’t be disappointed by the things you don’t do
The cult of done manifesto
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Challenging and testing your mind and body, even to the point of exhaustion, failure, and breakdown, can feel as wonderful as anything else life has to offer.
Dean Karnazes - 50 Marathons in 50 Days
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The reason this works is because though facts have limits, meanings don’t: and working out those meanings is your talent
Nick Hallam
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The larger lesson is that the increasing complexity of human knowledge, coupled with the escalating difficulty of those remaining questions, means that people must either work together or fail alone
Lehrer - Groupthink, The New Yorker
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They were creative like artists, wise as Solomon, lively as children. They had lost nothing. Their intellectual engines were still revving, and curiosity remained the fuel.
John Medina - Brain Rules (talking about two 75yr olds who shared the Nobel prize for their work together)
