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Book reviewer and newsletter writer focused on reading, learning, and mindset—posts frequent quotes, takeaways, and recommendations.
I get blown away every time I read this paragraph by Carl Jung: To love someone else is easy, but to love what you are, the thing that is yourself, is just as if you were embracing a glowing red-hot iron: it burns into you and that is very painful. Therefore, to love somebody else in the first place is always an escape which we all hope for, and we all enjoy it when we are capable of it. But in the long run, it comes back on us.
Marcus Aurelius wrote this over 1800 years ago: “If it’s endurable, then endure it. Stop complaining.”
This book is about using chess principles to make better decisions in life. Excellent read so far.
I’m in love with this sentence: “The degree to which a person can grow is directly proportional to the amount of truth he can accept about himself without running away.”
Lu Xun, the father of modern Chinese literature, on hope: “Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.”
Resilience depends on one thing: hanging on when everything inside us screams to let go.
“People underestimate how long it takes to win big. You struggle for 10 years. Eventually, in one day, you achieve more than you did your entire life. Be patiently aggressive.” — Patrick Bet-David
When Kobe Bryant said his insane level of confidence came from knowing he’d done all he could to prepare, it taught me that anytime I’m nervous it means I didn’t prepare enough.
Project Hail Mary is one of the best books I have read this year. And the movie beat my expectations. AMAZE AMAZE AMAZE :)
Steve Jobs on why motivation can’t be forced: “I've never found in my whole life that you could convince someone who doesn't want to work hard to work hard.”
My weekly newsletter is out. The book of the week is The Let Them Theory by Mel Robbins. Read online here: https://readswithravi.beehiiv.com/p/the-let-them-theory-non-competition-and-books
I'm in love with this sentence by Sharon Salzberg: “Whatever takes us to our edge, to our outer limits, leads us to the heart of life's mystery, and there we find faith.”
This paragraph by Carl Jung, written in 1964, still hits hard: As scientific understanding has grown, so our world has become dehumanized. Man feels himself isolated in the cosmos, because he is no longer involved in nature and has lost his emotional...
Today’s Stoic Lesson: Living without restriction. Too many successful people are prisoners in jails of their own making. Is that what you want? Is that what you're working hard toward?
