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We wouldn’t be alive without love; we wouldn’t have survived without running; maybe we shouldn’t be surprised that getting better at one could make you better at the other.
Christopher McDougall • Born to Run
“I came of age at a magical time,” he reflected later. “Our consciousness was raised by Zen, and also by LSD.” Even later in life he would credit psychedelic drugs for making him more enlightened. “Taking LSD was a profound experience, one of the most important things in my life. LSD shows you that there’s another side to the coin, and you can’t re
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“Our destiny is not written for us, but by us.
George Packer • The Unwinding
Whenever an art form loses its fire, when it gets weakened by intellectual inbreeding and first principles fade into stale tradition, a radical fringe eventually appears to blow it up and rebuild from the rubble.
Christopher McDougall • Born to Run
He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.
– Jean-Luc Godard
“Beyond the very extreme of fatigue and distress, we may find amounts of ease and power we never dreamed ourselves to own; sources of strength never taxed at all because we never push through the obstruction.”
Christopher McDougall • Born to Run
Frank had once maintained that Americans hated music but loved entertainment. “The reason they hate music,” he explained, “is that they’ve never stopped to listen to what the musical content is because they’re so befuddled by the packaging and merchandising that surround the musical material they’ve been induced to buy. There’s so much peripheral s
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Wisdom by EM
If you do something like read a lot of books and talk to a lot of people, you can learn almost anything.
When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.
Pay attention to negative feedback, and solicit it, particularly from friends. The friends who tell you what you want to hear might make you
“Great work happens by focusing consistently on something you're genuinely interested in.”