Quotes worth reading

The real value of caloric restriction research lies in the insights it has contributed to our understanding of the aging process itself.

OUTLIVE— Peter Attia with Bill GiffordNon-Fiction

In this world, you get what you ask for; you just have to ask correctly.

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

Pointing-and-Calling raises your level of awareness from a nonconscious habit to a more conscious level by verbalizing your actions.

ATOMIC HABITS— James ClearSelf-Help / Business

We all watched you. You sucked it all up and gave it all out.

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

The fields I draw on—biology, neuroscience, philosophy, psychology, and more—have been around for many years. What I offer you is a synthesis of the best ideas smart people figured out a long time ago as well as the most compelling discoveries scientists have made recently.

ATOMIC HABITS— James ClearSelf-Help / Business

There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they’re falling in.

OUTLIVE— Peter Attia with Bill GiffordNon-Fiction

All negotiations are defined by a network of subterranean desires and needs. Don’t let yourself be fooled by the surface.

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

Assessing Your Sleep It would be nice if science could locate some sort of “sleep switch,” some brain pathway that could be triggered, or inhibited, to make us fall asleep instantly and cycle smoothly in and out of deep sleep and REM sleep all night, until we wake up feeling refreshed.

OUTLIVE— Peter Attia with Bill GiffordNon-Fiction

The power of stability training is to slow down to go fast with it.

OUTLIVE— Peter Attia with Bill GiffordNon-Fiction

Light is the enemy of sleep, full stop. Thus, you want to make your bedroom itself as dark as possible—installing room-darkening curtains if you live somewhere with a lot of outdoor evening light, and removing all light sources in the bedroom, even down to electronic equipment like TVs and cable boxes and such.

OUTLIVE— Peter Attia with Bill GiffordNon-Fiction

The sweetest two words in any negotiation are actually “That’s right.”

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

The less important he makes himself, the more important he probably is (and vice versa).

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

If you think Earth is dying and you want to save humanity, you either have to transfer a huge population to Mars—possibly on the order of hundreds of millions—in a short period, or you have to have unimaginably developed robotic technology.

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

Once you understand what a messy, emotional, and destructive dynamic “fairness” can be, you can see why “Fair” is a tremendously powerful word that you need to use with care.

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

That whole ethos permeated everything the FBI was doing. Everything was a showdown. And it didn’t work.

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

Last, it loosens inhibitions around other kinds of food consumption; give me a few drinks, and the next thing you know I’m elbow-deep in the Pringles can as I pace around the pantry looking for my next snack.

OUTLIVE— Peter Attia with Bill GiffordNon-Fiction

The monkeys teach us that if you are metabolically healthy and not over-nourished, like the NIH animals, then avoiding a crap diet may be all you need.

OUTLIVE— Peter Attia with Bill GiffordNon-Fiction

In the exercise context, we’re not as interested in how rigid something is. Instead, we want to think about how efficiently and safely force can be transmitted through something.

OUTLIVE— Peter Attia with Bill GiffordNon-Fiction

Awareness comes before desire. A craving is created when you assign meaning to a cue. Your brain constructs an emotion or feeling to describe your current situation, and that means a craving can only occur after you have noticed an opportunity.

ATOMIC HABITS— James ClearSelf-Help / Business

The first step to changing bad habits is to be on the lookout for them. If you feel like you need extra help, then you can try Pointing-and-Calling in your own life.

ATOMIC HABITS— James ClearSelf-Help / Business

We are continually wondering ‘What will others think of me?’ and altering our behavior based on the answer.

ATOMIC HABITS— James ClearSelf-Help / Business

One difficulty that we all share is that Medicine 2.0 is set up to treat mental and emotional health in pretty much the same way that it treats everything else: diagnose, prescribe, and, of course, bill.

OUTLIVE— Peter Attia with Bill GiffordNon-Fiction

Habit stacking is a special form of an implementation intention. Rather than pairing your new habit with a particular time and location, you pair it with a current habit.

ATOMIC HABITS— James ClearSelf-Help / Business

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