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This is Water by David Foster Wallace (Full Transcript and Audio)
If you worship money and things — if they are where you tap real meaning in life — then you will never have enough.
David Foster Wallace • This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
I’ve been thinking a lot about the idea of giving ourselves clear, useful constraints to direct our lives. And it sounds like he had a strong set of values for his work, and that made the resulting discipline, if not easy, at least obvious. It reminds me of “flow” psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, who wrote that when you choose to invest in a m... See more
David Epstein • "Discipline Is Destiny"
The trick is keeping the truth up front in daily consciousness.
David Foster Wallace • This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
to be just a little less arrogant, to have some “critical awareness” about myself and my certainties… because a huge percentage of the stuff that I tend to be automatically certain of is, it turns out, totally wrong and deluded.