Quotes worth reading

If the new start requires us to create a new ethical framework that is anathema to most living Earthlings, then what’s the point?

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

Yes, our techniques clearly worked with mercenaries, drug dealers, terrorists, and brutal killers.

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

Players got credit for ‘allowing an opponent to run into you when you know that a foul will be called against him, diving for loose balls, going after rebounds whether you are likely to get them or not, helping a teammate when the player he’s guarding has surged past him, and other ‘unsung hero’ deeds.’

ATOMIC HABITS— James ClearSelf-Help / Business

Decades of goal-setting research is clear that people who set specific, challenging, but realistic goals end up getting better deals than those who don’t set goals or simply strive to do their best.

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

The key is to change the task such that it requires more work to get out of the good habit than to get started on it.

ATOMIC HABITS— James ClearSelf-Help / Business

Because there are two types of bad news: that about things we can change, and about things that we can’t. Assuming that a patient’s e4 status falls into the latter category is, in my opinion, a mistake.

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

Even better news, for our purposes, is that VO2 max can be increased via training. We can move the needle a lot on this measure of fitness, as we’ll see.

OUTLIVE— Peter Attia with Bill GiffordNon-Fiction

My obsession with longevity was really about my fear of dying. And something about having children was making my obsession with longevity ever more frenetic.

OUTLIVE— Peter Attia with Bill GiffordNon-Fiction

At greatest distance, it takes forty minutes for a signal to get from Earth to Mars and back. Communication will be more like letter writing than full conversation.

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

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

The very concept of Alzheimer’s prevention is still relatively new; we have only begun to scratch the surface of what might be accomplished here.

OUTLIVE— Peter Attia with Bill GiffordNon-Fiction

One key test in our movement assessment is to have our patients stand with one foot in front of the other and try to balance. Now close your eyes and see how long you can hold the position. Ten seconds is a respectable time; in fact, the ability to balance on one leg at ages fifty and older has been correlated with future longevity, just like grip strength.

OUTLIVE— Peter Attia with Bill GiffordNon-Fiction

If God wanted man to become a spacefaring species, He would have given man a Moon.

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

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

ATOMIC HABITS— James ClearSelf-Help / Business

The downside of habits is that you get used to doing things a certain way and stop paying attention to little errors.

ATOMIC HABITS— James ClearSelf-Help / Business

It is impossible to produce superior performance unless you do something different from the majority.

OUTLIVE— Peter Attia with Bill GiffordNon-Fiction

The larger point is that someone’s breathing style gives us insight into their broader stability strategy, the set of patterns that they have evolved over the years to help them get by in the physical world.

OUTLIVE— Peter Attia with Bill GiffordNon-Fiction

It’s a feedback loop. Both poor sleep and high stress activate the sympathetic nervous system, which—despite its name—is the opposite of calming.

OUTLIVE— Peter Attia with Bill GiffordNon-Fiction

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

OUTLIVE— Peter Attia with Bill GiffordNon-Fiction

The problem is that epidemiology is incapable of distinguishing between correlation and causation.

OUTLIVE— Peter Attia with Bill GiffordNon-Fiction

If the circumstances of the disappearance are suspicious, officers are always told ‘if in doubt, think murder.’ Of course, only a very small percentage of missing person cases turn into homicide cases, but officers are instructed to document evidence early on as though they were investigating a homicide.

A GOOD GIRL'S GUIDE TO MURDER— Holly JacksonSeries

You don’t need to be perfect. In any election, there are going to be votes for both sides. You don’t need a unanimous vote to win an election; you just need a majority.

ATOMIC HABITS— James ClearSelf-Help / Business

Sustaining an effort is the most important thing for any enterprise. The way to be successful is to learn how to do things right, then do them the same way every time.

ATOMIC HABITS— James ClearSelf-Help / Business