Quotes worth reading

Maybe the journey isn’t so much about becoming anything. Maybe it’s about unbecoming everything that isn’t really you, so you can be who you were meant to be in the first place.

OUTLIVE— Peter Attia with Bill GiffordNon-Fiction

As an old Washington Post editor named Robert Estabrook once said, “He who has learned to disagree without being disagreeable has discovered the most valuable secret of negotiation.”

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

Whenever possible, avoid mixing the context of one habit with another. When you start mixing contexts, you’ll start mixing habits—and the easier ones will usually win out.

ATOMIC HABITS— James ClearSelf-Help / Business

The sooner you cut the head off the snake, the lower the risk that it will bite you.

OUTLIVE— Peter Attia with Bill GiffordNon-Fiction

We need to think about very early general prevention, targeting all the Horsemen at once, via common drivers and risk factors.

OUTLIVE— Peter Attia with Bill GiffordNon-Fiction

We are constantly scanning our environment and wondering, “What is everyone else doing?” We check reviews on Amazon or Yelp or TripAdvisor because we want to imitate the “best” buying, eating, and travel habits. It’s usually a smart strategy.

ATOMIC HABITS— James ClearSelf-Help / Business

Make the cues of good habits obvious in your environment. Gradually, your habits become associated not with a single trigger but with the entire context surrounding the behavior. The context becomes the cue.

ATOMIC HABITS— James ClearSelf-Help / Business

The Warburg effect, also known as anaerobic glycolysis, turns the same amount of glucose into a little bit of energy and a whole lot of chemical building blocks—which are then used to build new cells rapidly. Thus, the Warburg effect is how cancer cells fuel their own proliferation. But it also represents a potential vulnerability in cancer’s armor.

OUTLIVE— Peter Attia with Bill GiffordNon-Fiction

The basic issue here is that when people feel that they are not in control, they adopt what psychologists call a hostage mentality. That is, in moments of conflict they react to their lack of power by either becoming extremely defensive or lashing out.

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

Charm and intrigue can only get you so far, Libby Loo. Those things always disappear, which is why you never, ever choose the bad boy.

BETTER THAN THE MOVIES— Lynn PainterYoung Adult

In time, we will have many more sensors like this that will allow us to tailor our therapies and interventions far more quickly and precisely.

OUTLIVE— Peter Attia with Bill GiffordNon-Fiction

Notice that you can’t buy anything for $2, but you can buy a million things for $1.99. How does a cent change anything? It doesn’t. But it makes a difference every time. We just like $1.99 more than $2.00 even if we know it’s a trick.

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

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

I think of zone 2 as akin to building a foundation for a house. Most people will never see it, but it is nevertheless important work that helps support virtually everything else we do, in our exercise regimen and in our lives.

OUTLIVE— Peter Attia with Bill GiffordNon-Fiction

If we commit to the unrelenting outlandishness, the audience would be right there with us, laughing harder and harder.

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

Never be needy for a deal. Before we move on, I want to emphasize how important it is to maintain a collaborative relationship even when you’re setting boundaries. Your response must always be expressed in the form of strong, yet empathic, limit-setting boundaries—that is, tough love—not as hatred or violence.

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

A stable person can react to internal or external stimuli to adjust position and muscular tension appropriately without a tremendous amount of conscious thought.

OUTLIVE— Peter Attia with Bill GiffordNon-Fiction

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

OUTLIVE— Peter Attia with Bill GiffordNon-Fiction

In a space settlement, oxygen will be created by chemical or biological means, but either way it’s going to be constructed using systems built top to bottom by human hands. Someone’s going to own those.

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

That whole ethos permeated everything the FBI was doing. Everything was a showdown. And it didn’t work.

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

The subject, who was unaware of the ruse, would immediately become bewildered. Their eyes would open wide. They would laugh nervously to themselves. They would double-check the reactions of other participants. Their agitation would grow as one person after another delivered the same incorrect response.

ATOMIC HABITS— James ClearSelf-Help / Business

The men tend to be in better shape,” he has said. (The authors didn’t measure this, but my hunch is that it may have something to do with men having more muscle mass, on average, which is highly correlated to longer lifespan and better function, as we’ll discuss further in the chapters on exercise.)

OUTLIVE— Peter Attia with Bill GiffordNon-Fiction

A stable environment where everything has a place and a purpose is an environment where habits can easily form.

ATOMIC HABITS— James ClearSelf-Help / Business

We need them both; scientist and poet Jeffrey Burton Russell writes that “as the sign of a deeper truth, metaphor was close to sacrament.”

BRAIDING SWEETGRASS— Robin Wall KimmererNon-Fiction