Quotes worth reading

The reasoning each and every student used was 100 percent irrational and emotional.

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

By considering the random variation in relevant genes and comparing them against the observed results, it eliminates many of the biases and confounders that limit the usefulness of pure epidemiology.

OUTLIVE— Peter Attia with Bill GiffordNon-Fiction

Awareness comes before desire. A craving is created when you assign meaning to a cue. Your brain constructs an emotion or feeling to describe your current situation, and that means a craving can only occur after you have noticed an opportunity.

ATOMIC HABITS— James ClearSelf-Help / Business

We have to make it okay to be vulnerable, to ask for and receive help.

OUTLIVE— Peter Attia with Bill GiffordNon-Fiction

When I started my career as an entrepreneur, I would often work from my couch or at the kitchen table. In the evenings, I found it very difficult to stop working. There was no clear division between the end of work time and the beginning of personal time.

ATOMIC HABITS— James ClearSelf-Help / Business

The brain is a greedy organ. It makes up just 2 percent of our body weight, yet it accounts for about 20 percent of our total energy expenditure.

OUTLIVE— Peter Attia with Bill GiffordNon-Fiction

Deadlines regularly make people say and do impulsive things that are against their best interests, because we all have a natural tendency to rush as a deadline approaches.

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

In negotiation, each new psychological insight or additional piece of information revealed heralds a step forward and allows one to discard one hypothesis in favor of another. You should engage the process with a mindset of discovery.

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

The whole principle came from the idea that if you broke down everything you could think of that goes into riding a bike, and then improve it by 1 percent, you will get a significant increase when you put them all together.

ATOMIC HABITS— James ClearSelf-Help / Business

If you were able to take an armed kidnapper who’d been surrounded by police and hook him up to a cardiac monitor, you’d find that every calibrated question and apology would lower his heart rate just a little bit. And that’s how you get to a dynamic where solutions can be found.

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

So before you do anything in the gym, I would urge you to read the next chapter, to begin to understand the crucial and complex concept of stability.

OUTLIVE— Peter Attia with Bill GiffordNon-Fiction

The way in which I do this, the tools that I use, derive from a school of psychology known as dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, developed in the 1990s by Marsha Linehan.

OUTLIVE— Peter Attia with Bill GiffordNon-Fiction

Suffering drives progress. The source of all suffering is the desire for a change in state. This is also the source of all progress. The desire to change your state is what powers you to take action.

ATOMIC HABITS— James ClearSelf-Help / Business

As always, tone of voice, respectful and deferential, is critical. Otherwise, treat 'why' like a burner on a hot stove—don’t touch it.

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

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

OUTLIVE— Peter Attia with Bill GiffordNon-Fiction

I had done more than just hold my own against two of Harvard’s distinguished leaders. I had taken on the best of the best and come out on top.

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

This in turn explains why exercise, especially in zone 2, can be so effective in managing both type 1 and type 2 diabetes: It enables the body to essentially bypass insulin resistance in the muscles to draw down blood glucose levels.

OUTLIVE— Peter Attia with Bill GiffordNon-Fiction

Time is a fascinating thing. I don’t know what it is. I just feel that I’m going to be here forever and I’m sure you do too.

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

If we are going to use a powerful tool like fasting, we must do so carefully and deliberately.

OUTLIVE— Peter Attia with Bill GiffordNon-Fiction

Sleep, it turns out, is as crucial to maintaining brain health as it is to brain function.

OUTLIVE— Peter Attia with Bill GiffordNon-Fiction

In the gym, it typically takes the form of rows, where you’re pulling the weight toward your body, or pull-ups.

OUTLIVE— Peter Attia with Bill GiffordNon-Fiction

Behind every system of actions are a system of beliefs. The system of a democracy is founded on beliefs like freedom, majority rule, and social equality. The system of a dictatorship has a very different set of beliefs like absolute authority and strict obedience.

ATOMIC HABITS— James ClearSelf-Help / Business

The real value of caloric restriction research lies in the insights it has contributed to our understanding of the aging process itself.

OUTLIVE— Peter Attia with Bill GiffordNon-Fiction

“That’s right,” he said. “Driving toward ‘that’s right’ is a winning strategy in all negotiations. But hearing ‘you’re right’ is a disaster.

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