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You always have three options: you can change it, you can accept it, or you can leave it. What is not a good option is to sit around wishing you would change it but not changing it, wishing you could leave it but not leaving it and not accepting it. That struggle or aversion is responsible for most of our misery. The phrase I probably use the most to myself in my head is just one word: “accept.” [5]

The Almanack of Naval Ravikant

Eric Jorgenson, Jack Butcher, and Tim Ferriss

Lecture : sur l’ensemble des sociétés observées, la part du revenu total dont bénéficient les 10 % des revenus les plus élevés varie de 23 % en Suède en 1980 à 81 % à Saint-Domingue (Haïti) en 1780 (qui comprenait 90 % d’esclaves). Les sociétés coloniales telles que l’Algérie et l’Afrique du Sud se situent en 1930-1950 parmi les plus hauts niveaux d’inégalité observés dans l’histoire, avec environ 70 % du revenu total pour le décile supérieur, qui regroupe la population européenne. Sources et séries : voir piketty.pse.ens.fr/ideologie.

Capital Et Idéologie

Thomas Piketty

Challenging others and encouraging them to challenge you helps build trusting relationships because it shows 1) you care enough to point out both the things that aren’t going well and those that are and that 2) you are willing to admit when you’re wrong and that you are committed to fixing mistakes that you or others have made. But because challenging often involves disagreeing or saying no, this approach embraces conflict rather than avoiding it.

Radical Candor

Kim Scott

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