Quotes worth reading

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

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

One way to enjoy such zero-g delight will be in a space Chevy van.

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

Trainers can be useful for some purposes, such as basic instruction, accountability, and motivation, but we discourage patients from becoming overly reliant on trainers to tell them exactly what to do every single time they work out.

OUTLIVE— Peter Attia with Bill GiffordNon-Fiction

Your brain has far more neural circuitry allocated for wanting rewards than for liking them. The wanting centers in the brain are large: the brain stem, the nucleus accumbens, the ventral tegmental area, the dorsal striatum, the amygdala, and portions of the prefrontal cortex.

ATOMIC HABITS— James ClearSelf-Help / Business

Healthy mitochondria are also important to maintaining the health of our brain, and to controlling potential bad actors like oxidative stress and inflammation.

OUTLIVE— Peter Attia with Bill GiffordNon-Fiction

The more I kept this second guy talking and he’d come around. We’d find a way to get him out of that bank—with or without Chris Watts.

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

Accommodators think as long as there is a free-flowing continuous exchange of information time is being well spent. As long as they’re communicating, they’re happy.

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

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

When they’ve told you that you’re finished and your chance to dance is done That’s the time to stand, to strike up the band, and tell them you’ve just begun.

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

The framework we have for human behavior in space will shape settlement every bit as much as the technology available.

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

I keep wondering whether the two might have been connected in some way, his fatty liver and his cancer. What did he look like, metabolically, ten years before he came in for surgery that day? As we’ll see in chapter 8, obesity and metabolic dysfunction are both powerful risk factors for cancer.

OUTLIVE— Peter Attia with Bill GiffordNon-Fiction

Without this break for emotional healing, we would live in a state of constant anxiety, every memory triggering a renewed surge of the emotions around that event.

OUTLIVE— Peter Attia with Bill GiffordNon-Fiction

What matters is that you take the actions you need to take to make progress. Whether an action is fully automatic is of less importance.

ATOMIC HABITS— James ClearSelf-Help / Business

Nobody was hurt. The bad guys were in custody. And I emerged from the experience humbled by how much more there was to learn, but at the same time, awakened to and inspired by the elemental power of emotion, dialogue, and the FBI’s evolving toolbox of applied psychological tactics to influence and persuade just about anyone in any situation.

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

People often choose products not because of what they are, but because of where they are.

ATOMIC HABITS— James ClearSelf-Help / Business

Because a mouse lives for only about two to three years—and will die after just forty-eight hours without food—a sixteen-hour fast for a mouse is akin to a multiday fast for a human. It’s just not a valid comparison.

OUTLIVE— Peter Attia with Bill GiffordNon-Fiction

I think of strength training as a form of retirement saving. Just as we want to retire with enough money saved up to sustain us for the rest of our lives, we want to reach older age with enough of a “reserve” of muscle (and bone density) to protect us from injury and allow us to continue to pursue the activities that we enjoy.

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

The goal is not to read a book, the goal is to become a reader.

ATOMIC HABITS— James ClearSelf-Help / Business

Getting to Mars may require beautiful science and elegant engineering, but paying the rent? Only reality TV can do that.

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

Labeling is a tactic, not a strategy, in the same way a spoon is a great tool for stirring soup but it’s not a recipe. How you use labeling will go a long way in determining your success.

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

It helped to recall something that my driving coach, Thomas Merrill, often tells me. He is an incredible driver who in 2022 placed second in the one of the most prestigious motor races in the world, the 24 Hours of Le Mans; he knows what he’s talking about.

OUTLIVE— Peter Attia with Bill GiffordNon-Fiction

Slow down, go fast. It’s the same, I think, with learning stability.

OUTLIVE— Peter Attia with Bill GiffordNon-Fiction