Quotes worth reading

I think of zone 2 as akin to building a foundation for a house. Most people will never see it, but it is nevertheless important work that helps support virtually everything else we do, in our exercise regimen and in our lives.

OUTLIVE— Peter Attia with Bill GiffordNon-Fiction

Professionals stick to the schedule; amateurs let life get in the way.

ATOMIC HABITS— James ClearSelf-Help / Business

Almost everything we do in fitness, and in our daily lives, goes through our hands. If our feet are our contact with the ground, absorbing force, our hands are how we transmit force.

OUTLIVE— Peter Attia with Bill GiffordNon-Fiction

Each day, there are a handful of moments that deliver an outsized impact. I refer to these little choices as decisive moments.

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.

OUTLIVE— Peter Attia with Bill GiffordNon-Fiction

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

Negotiation as you’ll learn it here is nothing more than communication with results. Getting what you want out of life is all about getting what you want from—and with—other people.

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

When you join a culture where (1) your desired behavior is the normal behavior and (2) you already have something in common with the group, change becomes more appealing because it feels like something people like you already do.

ATOMIC HABITS— James ClearSelf-Help / Business

I was a great “provider” and “protector.” They would never have to suffer my specific childhood shame.

OUTLIVE— Peter Attia with Bill GiffordNon-Fiction

In healthy communities of thought, the people in the corner shaking their heads and wagging their fingers aren’t barriers on the road to progress, but guardrails.

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

The language of negotiation is primarily a language of conversation and rapport: a way of quickly establishing relationships and getting people to talk and think together.

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

In the absence of multiple, repeated, decades-long randomized clinical trials that might answer our questions with certainty, we are forced to think in terms of probabilities and risk.

OUTLIVE— Peter Attia with Bill GiffordNon-Fiction

Emotion is a necessary element to decision making that we ignore at our own peril.

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

If you can’t find a game where the odds are stacked in your favor, create one.

ATOMIC HABITS— James ClearSelf-Help / Business

Habit tracking is obvious. Recording your last action creates a trigger that can initiate your next one.

ATOMIC HABITS— James ClearSelf-Help / Business

Knowing that someone else is watching you can be a powerful motivator. You are less likely to procrastinate or give up because there is an immediate cost.

ATOMIC HABITS— James ClearSelf-Help / Business

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.

CONQUERING CRISIS— William H. McRavenSelf-Help / Business

The best way to get your counterparts to lower their demands is to say “No” using “How” questions.

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

The overarching point here is that a good night of sleep may depend in part on a good day of wakefulness: one that includes exercise, some outdoor time, sensible eating (no late-night snacking), minimal to no alcohol, proper management of stress, and knowing where to set boundaries around work and other life stressors.

OUTLIVE— Peter Attia with Bill GiffordNon-Fiction

If we want to reduce deaths from cardiovascular disease, we need to begin thinking about prevention in people in their forties and even thirties.

OUTLIVE— Peter Attia with Bill GiffordNon-Fiction

When I started my career as an entrepreneur, I would often work from my couch or at the kitchen table. In the evenings, I found it very difficult to stop working. There was no clear division between the end of work time and the beginning of personal time.

ATOMIC HABITS— James ClearSelf-Help / Business

Meditation, he says, is 'simply about being yourself and knowing something about who that is.'

THE NEXT DAY— Melinda French GatesSelf-Help / Business

The right lesson from changing your mind is wondering which other of your beliefs you’ll eventually update.

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

War is a quite complex human behavior, and people who study it don’t even agree on the most fundamental causes—about whether war is inherent to humans, or cultural, or ecological in the sense of depending on the environment.

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