Quotes worth reading

When working against you, your identity creates a kind of “pride” that encourages you to deny your weak spots and prevents you from truly growing.

ATOMIC HABITS— James ClearSelf-Help / Business

It is much better to save and invest and plan ahead, letting your wealth build gradually over decades, than to scramble to try to scrape together an individual retirement account in your late fifties and hope and pray that the stock market gods help you out.

OUTLIVE— Peter Attia with Bill GiffordNon-Fiction

Even if someone has been training diligently, a short period of inactivity can erase many of those gains.

OUTLIVE— Peter Attia with Bill GiffordNon-Fiction

Becoming comfortable enough with your socioeconomic status that you don’t feel the need to show off to strangers. This is the first glimpse of not just financial independence, but intellectual and identity independence. The inability to do this is a hidden form of debt and dependence.

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

I became painfully aware of how far I had to go when I returned to the baseball field one year later.

ATOMIC HABITS— James ClearSelf-Help / Business

If you can find people who inspire you, who make you feel like you can do your best, then tap into and work off that energy.

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

Every man is a bridge, spanning the legacy he inherited and the legacy he passes on.

OUTLIVE— Peter Attia with Bill GiffordNon-Fiction

What feels like fun to me, but work to others? The mark of whether you are made for a task is not whether you love it but whether you can handle the pain of the task easier than most people. When are you enjoying yourself while other people are complaining?

ATOMIC HABITS— James ClearSelf-Help / Business

Hailing a cab each morning may be a tiny action, but it is a splendid example of the 3rd Law of Behavior Change.

ATOMIC HABITS— James ClearSelf-Help / Business

Connecting with children through body movement works the same way. And it doesn’t have to start with outright dancing either. Maybe a kid is twirling their hair or just fidgeting.

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

a routine or practice performed regularly; an automatic response to a specific situation.

ATOMIC HABITS— James ClearSelf-Help / Business

It is beyond backwards that we do not treat hyperinsulinemia like a bona fide endocrine disorder of its own.

OUTLIVE— Peter Attia with Bill GiffordNon-Fiction

Taking too little risk is like smoking cigarettes, taking too much risk is like doing heroin. Both will harm you, the only difference is how quickly.

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

The power of getting to that understanding, and not to some simple 'yes,' is revelatory in the art of negotiation.

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

When you ask calibrated questions, yes, you are leading your counterpart to your goals. But you are also leading them to examine and articulate what they want and why and how they can achieve it. You are demanding creativity of them, and therefore pushing them toward a collaborative solution.

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

A person’s use of pronouns offers deep insights into his or her relative authority. If you’re hearing a lot of “I,” “me,” and “my,” the real power to decide probably lies elsewhere. Picking up a lot of “we,” “they,” and “them,” it’s more likely you’re dealing directly with a savvy decision maker keeping his options open.

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

Remember: “Yes” is nothing without “How.” So keep asking “How?” And succeed.

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

“Grief,” wrote the psychologist Mary-Frances O’Connor, “is the cost of loving someone.”

THE NEXT DAY— Melinda French GatesSelf-Help / Business

We needed to finesse making an “ask” with something more sophisticated than closed-ended questions with their yes-no dynamic.

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

Feeling connected and having healthy relationships with others, and with oneself, is as imperative as maintaining efficient glucose metabolism or an optimal lipoprotein profile.

OUTLIVE— Peter Attia with Bill GiffordNon-Fiction

We understand that different doesn't mean 'bad.' We understand that souls don't come in colors.

HOW TO TEST NEGATIVE FOR STUPID— John KennedyNon-Fiction

Trying to pump up your motivation to stick with a hard habit is like trying to force water through a bent hose. You can do it, but it requires a lot of effort and increases the tension in your life.

ATOMIC HABITS— James ClearSelf-Help / Business

It’s almost as if you have a bathtub, and you’re filling it up from the faucet. If you keep the faucet running even after the tub is full and the drain is closed (i.e., you’re sedentary), water begins spilling over the rim of the tub, flowing into places where it’s not wanted or needed, like onto the bathroom floor, into the heating vents or down the stairs.

OUTLIVE— Peter Attia with Bill GiffordNon-Fiction

Gift exchange is the commerce of choice, for it is commerce that harmonizes with, or participates in, the process of [nature’s] increase.

BRAIDING SWEETGRASS— Robin Wall KimmererNon-Fiction