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The better we know our values, the easier it is to act on them, and the more we act on our values, the more we can shape our life in meaningful ways. So am I suggesting you give up on all your goals? NOOOOO! Not at all. In fact, later in the book, we’ll look at practical strategies to help you get better at actually achieving your goals. What I’m saying is, values are instantly empowering in a way that goals never can be. Why? Because we can always live our values in little ways, no matter what life is like.
The Happiness Trap
Harris, Russ
I don’t think that e-readers are going to be a cure-all for everyone in need of cultivating better and longer attention. But I do think that my experience suggests that it’s not reasonable to think of “technology”—in the usual vaguely pejorative meaning of that word—as the enemy of reading. The codex is itself a technology, and a supremely sophisticated one, but even digital electronic technologies vary tremendously: e-readers are by any measure far less distracting than an iPad or a laptop. It’s at least possible for new technologies to be part of the solution instead of part of the problem.
The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction
Alan Jacobs
This urban gentrification and restructuring — which, party messaging repeatedly celebrates, is boosting the country’s middle class — may also be a temporary boon before sharper economic decline. “You have to be an idiot to think that everything’s always on the upswing, and it’s been on the upswing for 40 years in China. No real economy can sustain that; it’s impossible,” says Feng. “China is a totalitarian government that is terrified of its own people, which is a very unique thing. And a terrified totalitarian government is going to make certain moves very quickly that democracies cannot.”
Rock in China - Rolling Stone
rollingstone.com
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