Quotes worth reading

The normal behavior of the tribe often overpowers the desired behavior of the individual. The reward of being accepted is often greater than the reward of winning an argument, looking smart, or finding truth.

ATOMIC HABITS— James ClearSelf-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

All behavior makes sense with enough information —including behavior about the different ways we spend our money.

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

I am also cautiously optimistic about pairing these tried-and-true staples of cancer screening with emerging methods, such as “liquid biopsies,” which can detect trace amounts of cancer-cell DNA via a simple blood test.

OUTLIVE— Peter Attia with Bill GiffordNon-Fiction

A lot of money problems come from people spending or saving money in a way they think they’re supposed to but that doesn’t match their personality.

THE ART OF SPENDING MONEY— Morgan HouselSelf-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

When you have repeated a story to yourself for years, it is easy to slide into these mental grooves and accept them as a fact.

ATOMIC HABITS— James ClearSelf-Help / Business

Mitochondrial health becomes especially important as we grow older, because one of the most significant hallmarks of aging is a decline in the number and quality of our mitochondria.

OUTLIVE— Peter Attia with Bill GiffordNon-Fiction

Most of us enter verbal combat unlikely to persuade anyone of anything because we only know and care about our own goals and perspective. But the best officers are tuned in to the other party—their audience.

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

But some scientists have begun to openly question the notion that amyloid causes all cases of Alzheimer’s disease, citing these drug failures above all.

OUTLIVE— Peter Attia with Bill GiffordNon-Fiction

In the richest country in the history of the world, nearly 22 percent of seniors are trying to survive on $15,000 or less, while half are living on an income of less than $30,000 a year. This is a disgrace.

FIGHT OLIGARCHY— Bernie SandersNon-Fiction

This association between sleep and metabolic health seems puzzling at first, but I think the missing link here is stress.

OUTLIVE— Peter Attia with Bill GiffordNon-Fiction

Spinning provides the needed gravity, and moms will never have to wonder whether or not they’ll experience morning sickness. And speaking of the privileges of giving life, remember that mom’s bones will be weakened in microgravity and perhaps also under only partial Earth gravity.

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

I can’t be fucking indicted by a local prosecutor,” he screamed at Cannon and others. “Why haven’t you shut this thing down?

2024— Josh Dawsey, Tyler Pager and Isaac ArnsdorfNon-Fiction

Black Swans are events or pieces of knowledge that sit outside our regular expectations and therefore cannot be predicted.

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

No one should pretend that you can make life-changing decisions that will massively impact you and your family and treat it like a math problem you can solve in a spreadsheet.

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

Often the other side is acting on bad information, and when people have bad information they make bad choices. There’s a great computer industry term for this: GIGO—Garbage In, Garbage Out.

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

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

No one is a grumpy old man at heart. No one is genetically miserable. No matter our current circumstances, we all have the capacity for a joyful and purposeful life.

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

To the many friends and family members who asked “How’s the book going?” and offered a word of encouragement when I inevitably replied “Slowly”—thank you.

ATOMIC HABITS— James ClearSelf-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 point of this exercise is not how much extension or flexion you can reach in extreme Cat or Cow but rather how much segmental control you can achieve, going from one extreme to the other. You should learn to feel the position of each vertebra, which in turn helps you better distribute load and force throughout the spine.

OUTLIVE— Peter Attia with Bill GiffordNon-Fiction

When we are asleep, we are accomplishing nothing useful: we are not reproducing, gathering food, or protecting our family. Even worse, in that slumbering state we are extremely vulnerable to predators and enemies, as I had been in Patterson Park. This, he argued, demonstrates precisely why sleep is so important.

OUTLIVE— Peter Attia with Bill GiffordNon-Fiction

This is the one emotional health “risk factor” that does seem to grow worse with increasing age.

OUTLIVE— Peter Attia with Bill GiffordNon-Fiction