Some of the most crucial steps in mental growth are based not simply on acquiring new skills, but on acquiring new administrative ways to use what one already knows.
Make a good habit, relieve the brain
Decision-making is draining and it's difficult, so if we avoid decision-making then we don't have to use our self-control. Are you going to the gym? Yes, you are. Are you going to go to sleep at 11 p.m.? Yes, you are. If you put it on autopilot, then you don't have to drain yourself trying to make decisions, which can drive you crazy.
Book Interview
Joan's the bird behind the quote :)
A bird doesn't sing because he has an answer, he sings because it has a song.
(and NOT Maya Angelou)
Truth is a stranger, have you have met one?
Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.
Truth is stranger than fiction--to some people, but I am measurably familiar with it.
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
When in doubt, tell the truth.
My own luck has been curious all my literary life; I never could tell a lie that anyone would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.
Often the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth.
Truth is stranger than fiction--to some people, but I am measurably familiar with it.
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
When in doubt, tell the truth.
My own luck has been curious all my literary life; I never could tell a lie that anyone would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.
Often the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth.
If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.
Virtual Reality :)
I fell asleep reading a dull book, and I dreamt that I was reading on, so I woke up from sheer boredom.
- Unknown/ Michael Hansbury
Author, The Law of Attraction
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