Quotes worth reading

Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts.

OUTLIVE— Peter Attia with Bill GiffordNon-Fiction

The best way to get your counterparts to lower their demands is to say “No” using “How” questions. These indirect ways of saying “No” won’t shut down your counterpart the way a blunt, pride-piercing “No” would.

NEVER SPLIT THE DIFFERENCE— Chris Voss with Tahl RazSelf-Help / Business

Addressing emotional health takes just as much constant effort and daily practice as maintaining other aspects of our physical health by creating an exercise routine, following a nutritional program, adhering to sleep rituals, and so on.

OUTLIVE— Peter Attia with Bill GiffordNon-Fiction

The healthier and more efficient your mitochondria, the greater your ability to utilize fat, which is by far the body’s most efficient and abundant fuel source.

OUTLIVE— Peter Attia with Bill GiffordNon-Fiction

People are often tired of being hammered with their own name. The slick salesman trying to drive them to ‘Yes’ will hit them with it over and over. Instead, take a different tack and use your own name.

NEVER SPLIT THE DIFFERENCE— Chris Voss with Tahl RazSelf-Help / Business

So much of a good life is about what didn’t happen. It’s the fights you didn’t have, the illnesses you avoided, and the unhealthy desires you didn’t feed.

THE ART OF SPENDING MONEY— Morgan HouselSelf-Help / Business

The strange thing from today’s vantage is how much the world has changed while the law has stayed the same.

A CITY ON MARS— Kelly Weinersmith and Zach WeinersmithNon-Fiction

People don’t care about how much you know until they know how much you care.

HOW TO TEST NEGATIVE FOR STUPID— John KennedyNon-Fiction

Tracking can become its own form of reward. It feels good to cross an item off your to-do list, to complete an entry in your workout log, or to mark an X on the calendar.

ATOMIC HABITS— James ClearSelf-Help / Business

When your boss is also your landlord, their ability to threaten you and your family is tremendous, and indeed narrative accounts refer to eviction of families with children by force.

A CITY ON MARS— Kelly Weinersmith and Zach WeinersmithNon-Fiction

Understanding how the tempo of crisis is unfolding, and how to shape it in your favor, is key to a successful resolution.

CONQUERING CRISIS— William H. McRavenSelf-Help / Business

I think of strength training as a form of retirement saving. Just as we want to retire with enough money saved up to sustain us for the rest of our lives, we want to reach older age with enough of a “reserve” of muscle (and bone density) to protect us from injury and allow us to continue to pursue the activities that we enjoy.

OUTLIVE— Peter Attia with Bill GiffordNon-Fiction

There’s a fine line between being motivated by what others have and you don’t (potentially good) and being envious of what they have and you want (always dangerous).

THE ART OF SPENDING MONEY— Morgan HouselSelf-Help / Business

There is an incredible rush of anticipation one feels just before cutting through the last of several membranes separating the outside world from the inner abdominal cavity.

OUTLIVE— Peter Attia with Bill GiffordNon-Fiction

Specialization is a powerful way to overcome the “accident” of bad genetics. The more you master a specific skill, the harder it becomes for others to compete with you.

ATOMIC HABITS— James ClearSelf-Help / Business

Scientists who play by someone else’s rules don’t have much chance of making discoveries.

OUTLIVE— Peter Attia with Bill GiffordNon-Fiction

If you think Earth is dying and you want to save humanity, you either have to transfer a huge population to Mars—possibly on the order of hundreds of millions—in a short period, or you have to have unimaginably developed robotic technology.

A CITY ON MARS— Kelly Weinersmith and Zach WeinersmithNon-Fiction

Assessing Your Sleep It would be nice if science could locate some sort of “sleep switch,” some brain pathway that could be triggered, or inhibited, to make us fall asleep instantly and cycle smoothly in and out of deep sleep and REM sleep all night, until we wake up feeling refreshed.

OUTLIVE— Peter Attia with Bill GiffordNon-Fiction

I am increasingly persuaded that our 24-7 addiction to screens and social media is perhaps our most destructive habit, not only to our ability to sleep but to our mental health in general.

OUTLIVE— Peter Attia with Bill GiffordNon-Fiction

To address this rampant epidemic of metabolic disorders, of which NAFLD is merely a harbinger, we need to get a handle on the situation much earlier.

OUTLIVE— Peter Attia with Bill GiffordNon-Fiction

there is an enormous amount of satisfaction and joy in being able to bring people together at the local level—and delivering for them.

FIGHT OLIGARCHY— Bernie SandersNon-Fiction

Getting to Mars may require beautiful science and elegant engineering, but paying the rent? Only reality TV can do that.

A CITY ON MARS— Kelly Weinersmith and Zach WeinersmithNon-Fiction

One of the biggest obstacles to a “cure” is the fact that cancer is not one single, simple, straightforward disease, but a condition with mind-boggling complexity.

OUTLIVE— Peter Attia with Bill GiffordNon-Fiction

Because we don’t know what the treasure is, we don’t know where to dig. Here are some of the best techniques for flushing out the Black Swans—and exploiting them.

NEVER SPLIT THE DIFFERENCE— Chris Voss with Tahl RazSelf-Help / Business