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I lived in #books more than I lived anywhere else.
~Neil Gaiman
#amreading #amwriting #writerslife #booklovers
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Uma das descobertas mais libertadoras da psicologia é que quase ninguém está prestando atenção em você.
Em 2000, pesquisadores de Cornell pediram que estudantes entrassem numa sala cheia vestindo uma camiseta constrangedora. Eles calcularam que metade das pessoas tinha reparado. Na verdade, foi menos de um quarto.
Os psicólogos chamaram isso de efeito holofote: você superestima o quanto os outros te observam, porque é o centro do próprio mundo, e acha que é o centro do mundo dos outros.
Pense em quantas coisas você deixou de fazer por medo de uma plateia que nunca existiu.
Os estoicos já sabiam que a opinião alheia não está sob o seu controle. A ciência só descobriu que, na maior parte do tempo, ela nem existe.
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The point of a technological revolution isn't to get there first. It's to make the most of it. It’s not zero sum.
The UK didn’t win the Industrial Revolution, everyone did.
It’s not zero sum, it’s positive sum
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Nothing will stop you being creative so effectively as the fear of making a mistake.
—John Cleese—
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Mark Manson said it right:
“Beware: learning more is a smart person’s favorite form of procrastination.”
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We like when this happens.
The forward 12-month P/E ratio for the S&P 500 is 17.7.
This P/E ratio is below the 5-year average (19.8) and below the 10-year average (19.1). @factset
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In 20 years of coaching founders, I’ve learned that the single biggest reason for failure is never starting.
“You're already familiar with this basic idea: Water your flowers and cut your weeds….Fuel your rockets and ground your anchors.
Feed your tigers and starve your snails.
Light your stars and dim your lanterns.
Build your castles and abandon your ruins.
Polish your gems and ignore your pebbles.”
“I love the phrase "sleep number" for a different reason; it perfectly captures a key principle of Rule Breaker portfolios. Here's how we define it: It's the highest percentage you'd allow any holding in your portfolio to reach, while still sleeping soundly at night.”
“Stocks always go down faster than they go up, but they always go up more than they go down.”
~ David Gardner
“Remember.. nobody can make a good decision without context. Hand a brilliant person half the picture and you’ll get a brilliant answer to the wrong question.” ~ Marc Randolph
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Two thoughts from Jacques Barzun
“No subject of study is more important than reading…all other intellectual powers depend on it.”
“...institutional self-reform is rare; the conscience is willing, but the culture is rough.”
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Remember.. nobody can make a good decision without context.
Hand a brilliant person half the picture and you’ll get a brilliant answer to the wrong question.
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If you wish to venture into infinity,
Explore the finite in every direction.
If you wish to delight in the whole,
You must learn to see the whole
In the smallest of things.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832)
























