Two Thoughts (26 March - 1 April)

Sunday 26 March

Two thoughts from Piero Ferrucci:

"Eliminate something superfluous from your life. Break a habit. Do something that makes you feel insecure."

"We are used to thinking in terms of what we can teach our children. Maybe we need to ask ourselves what we may learn from them."

Monday 27 March

Two thoughts from Anne Sexton:

“The joy that isn't shared dies young.”

“Live or die, but don't poison everything.”

Tuesday 28 March

Two thoughts from Tim Kreider:

“It’s easy to demonstrate how progressive and open-minded and loyal you are when it costs you nothing.”

“Because the essence of creativity is fucking around; art is that which is done for the hell of it.”

Wednesday 29 March

Two thoughts from Whitney Tilson:

"The mark of a wise person isn't never making mistakes...Rather, it's the ability to quickly admit - and fix - them!"

"There is no sure-fire way to get rich quickly. In fact, the pursuit of that usually leads to ruin."

Thursday 30 March

Two thoughts from Brent Schlender:

“What separates people is the return on luck, what you do with it when you get it.”

“Having a grand, bold goal was useless if you didn’t have the ability to tell a compelling story about how you’d get there.”

Friday 31 March

Two thoughts from Sinan Aral:

"We tend to believe false information more after repeated exposure to it. People also tend to believe what they already think."

“The evidence for the social brain hypothesis implies that humans evolved to be social.”

Saturday 1 April

Two thoughts from Om Swami:

“When we cling to a thought or follow its track, we are performing a mental karma, and that, in turn, is the seed of all physical actions.”

“The world you see externally is merely a projection of the world within you.”

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