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“What are the choices that we must make if we are now to succeed, and not to fail? [...] Two types of choices seem to me to have been crucial to tipping their outcomes towards success or failure: long-term planning, and willingness to reconsider core values. On reflection, we can also recognize the crucial role of these same two choices for the outcomes of our individual lives. One of those choices has depended on the courage to practice long-term thinking, and to make bold, courageous, anticipatory decisions at a time when problems have become perceptible but before they have reached crisis proportions. [...] The other crucial choice illuminated by the past involves the courage to make painful decisions about values. Which of the values that formerly served a society well can continue to be maintained under new changed circumstances? Which of these treasured values must instead be jettisoned and replaced with different approaches?”
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed • Jared Diamond“That which makes the man no worse than he was makes his life no worse: it has no power to harm, without or within.”
Book IV • Marcus Aurelius“The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it.”
Maxim for Revolutionists • George Bernard Shaw“If you want better results, then forget about setting goals. Focus on your system instead.”
Atomic Habits • James Clear“The anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss put it, ancient writing’s main function was to facilitate the enslavement of other human beings.”
Guns, Germs And Steel • Jared Diamond, Ph.D. (UCLA)