Quotes worth reading

Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.

OUTLIVE— Peter Attia with Bill GiffordNon-Fiction

If you’re training to be an athlete of life, then you’re training to be an athlete, period.

OUTLIVE— Peter Attia with Bill GiffordNon-Fiction

We pick up habits from the people around us. We copy the way our parents handle arguments, the way our peers flirt with one another, the way our coworkers get results.

ATOMIC HABITS— James ClearSelf-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

The problem is that our idea of personalized or precision medicine remains some distance ahead of the technology necessary to realize its full promise.

OUTLIVE— Peter Attia with Bill GiffordNon-Fiction

The goal is not to read a book, the goal is to become a reader.

ATOMIC HABITS— James ClearSelf-Help / Business

The world didn’t tell Steve Jobs that it wanted an iPad: he uncovered our need, that Black Swan, without us knowing the information was there.

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

Each day, there are a handful of moments that deliver an outsized impact. I refer to these little choices as decisive moments.

ATOMIC HABITS— James ClearSelf-Help / Business

When the pressure is on, you don’t rise to the occasion; you fall to your highest level of preparation.

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

Could the centenarians merely be lucky? Certainly, their age alone makes them extreme statistical outliers.

OUTLIVE— Peter Attia with Bill GiffordNon-Fiction

Any habit can be broken down into a feedback loop that involves four steps: cue, craving, response, and reward.

ATOMIC HABITS— James ClearSelf-Help / Business

In the next chapter, we will take a much more detailed look at how metabolic disorders help to instigate and promote chronic disease.

OUTLIVE— Peter Attia with Bill GiffordNon-Fiction

He decided to only give treats to the rats intermittently and, to his surprise, varying the delivery of food did not decrease behavior, but actually increased it.

ATOMIC HABITS— James ClearSelf-Help / Business

A nuclear reactor is a power source in a box, which can be adjusted up and down at will, and which can go years without refueling.

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

All these need to be addressed if your life is to be worth prolonging—because the most important ingredient in the whole longevity equation is the why.

OUTLIVE— Peter Attia with Bill GiffordNon-Fiction

The proof of principle is here, but much more work is needed, not only to improve the efficacy of this approach but also to enable us to deliver this treatment more widely and more easily.

OUTLIVE— Peter Attia with Bill GiffordNon-Fiction

Once I got a little older, knowing how to fall safely, and knowing I knew how to fall safely, opened up a lot of possibilities—for falling for fun!

100 RULES FOR LIVING TO 100— Dick Van Dyke with Tal McTheniaNon-Fiction

Just because she likes the same bizarro crap you do doesn’t mean she’s your soul mate.

BETTER THAN THE MOVIES— Lynn PainterYoung Adult

80% of missing people are found in the first 24 hours. 97% are found in the first week. 99% of cases are resolved in the first year. That leaves just 1%.

A GOOD GIRL'S GUIDE TO MURDER— Holly JacksonSeries

Labeling is a tactic, not a strategy, in the same way a spoon is a great tool for stirring soup but it’s not a recipe.

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

The overall mortality rate for Americans ages 100 and older is a staggering 36 percent, meaning that if Grandma is 101, she has about a one-in-three chance of dying in the next twelve months.

OUTLIVE— Peter Attia with Bill GiffordNon-Fiction

There is such tenderness in braiding the hair of someone you love. Kindness and something more flow between the braider and the braided, the two connected by the cord of the plait.

BRAIDING SWEETGRASS— Robin Wall KimmererNon-Fiction

Saying “No” often spurs people to action because they feel they’ve protected themselves and now see an opportunity slipping away.

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

Normally, however, most atherosclerotic plaques are fairly undramatic. They grow silently and invisibly, gradually occluding the blood vessel until one day the obstruction, due to the plaque itself or a plaque-induced clot, becomes a problem.

OUTLIVE— Peter Attia with Bill GiffordNon-Fiction