Quotes worth reading

Positive Compounding Productivity compounds. Accomplishing one extra task is a small feat on any given day, but it counts for a lot over an entire career.

ATOMIC HABITS— James ClearSelf-Help / Business

Building better habits isn’t about littering your day with life hacks. It’s not about flossing one tooth each night or taking a cold shower each morning or wearing the same outfit each day. It’s not about achieving external measures of success like earning more money, losing weight, or reducing stress.

ATOMIC HABITS— James ClearSelf-Help / Business

Space Sex and Consequences Thereof Earth’s the right place for love: I don’t know where it’s likely to go better.

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

The trick to spotting feelings is to pay close attention to changes people undergo when they respond to external events. Most often, those events are your words.

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

We approach our tactics the same way, zooming in from the vague and general to the specific and targeted. We use data and intuition to figure out where to focus our efforts, and feedback to determine what is and isn’t working. And seemingly small tweaks can yield a significant advantage if compounded over time.

OUTLIVE— Peter Attia with Bill GiffordNon-Fiction

The problem is that in medicine our tools do not allow us to see very far over the horizon. Our “radar,” if you will, is not powerful enough.

OUTLIVE— Peter Attia with Bill GiffordNon-Fiction

I was a great “provider” and “protector.” They would never have to suffer my specific childhood shame.

OUTLIVE— Peter Attia with Bill GiffordNon-Fiction

Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement. The same way that money multiplies through compound interest, the effects of your habits multiply as you repeat them.

ATOMIC HABITS— James ClearSelf-Help / Business

A more significant issue with DR is that everyone’s metabolism is different. Some people will lose tremendous amounts of weight and improve their metabolic markers on a low-carbohydrate or ketogenic diet, while others will actually gain weight and see their lipid markers go haywire—on the exact same diet.

OUTLIVE— Peter Attia with Bill GiffordNon-Fiction

The secret to maximizing your odds of success is to choose the right field of competition.

ATOMIC HABITS— James ClearSelf-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

I realized I was lucky to 'not really retire' on my own terms. A lot of people don't have that choice at all; they have to keep working long after they're ready to stop.

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

In trying at magic, I found my tools and ingredients as a performer. In failing at magic, I landed the role of a lifetime.

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

Stacking the above insights—in both directions, positive or negative—is very powerful. So if you’re stressed out, sleeping poorly, and unable to make time to exercise, be as careful as possible with what you eat.

OUTLIVE— Peter Attia with Bill GiffordNon-Fiction

The cues that trigger a habit can start out very specific, but over time your habits become associated not with a single trigger but with the entire context surrounding the behavior.

ATOMIC HABITS— James ClearSelf-Help / Business

When it comes to building new habits, you can use the connectedness of behavior to your advantage.

ATOMIC HABITS— James ClearSelf-Help / Business

The disease rarely progresses to a clinical stage before about age sixty-five, even in patients with two copies of e4. That gives us about twenty-five years to try to prevent or delay her from developing this horrible illness with the tools currently at our disposal.

OUTLIVE— Peter Attia with Bill GiffordNon-Fiction

A genetic analysis of Spanish centenarians found that they displayed extremely youthful patterns of gene expression, more closely resembling a control group of people in their twenties than an older control group of octogenarians.

OUTLIVE— Peter Attia with Bill GiffordNon-Fiction

Don’t ask questions that start with “Why” unless you want your counterpart to defend a goal that serves you. “Why” is always an accusation, in any language.

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

Learning what to quickly say no to can be more important than what to buy.

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

When cancers are detected early, in stage I, survival rates skyrocket.

OUTLIVE— Peter Attia with Bill GiffordNon-Fiction

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance—it is the illusion of knowledge.

OUTLIVE— Peter Attia with Bill GiffordNon-Fiction

The reason for that is something called the “paradox of power”—namely, the harder we push the more likely we are to be met with resistance.

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

We would like to know how they accomplished this feat. What do centenarians have in common? What genes do they share that might give them an advantage over noncentenarians? What explains their survival and their apparently slower rate of aging?

OUTLIVE— Peter Attia with Bill GiffordNon-Fiction