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A batch of the best highlights from what Christian's read, .
Mind Candy
-- We lust for certainty, but must live in doubt.
-- Hyperbole is a virtue only in love.
-- To oppose my enemy does not make you my friend.
-- No one can measure a life, or know its worth.
-- More is experienced than can ever be expressed.
Tweets From Dee W Hock
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Purposeful practice requires getting out of one’s comfort zone. This is perhaps the most important part of purposeful practice.
Peak
Anders Ericsson, Robert Pool
But of course, if our ancestors needed to evolve brains that were good at cheater-detection, it’s because their peers were routinely trying to cheat them—and those peers were also our ancestors. Thus early humans (and protohumans) were locked in an evolutionary arms race, pitting the skills of some at cheating against the skills of others at detecting cheating.
The Elephant in the Brain
Kevin Simler and Robin Hanson
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