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Of course, changing how you deal with difficult conversations takes work. Like changing your golf swing, adapting to drive on the other side of the road, or learning a new language, the change can feel awkward at first. And it can feel threatening: breaking out of your comfort zone is rarely easy and is never risk-free. It requires you to look hard at yourself, and sometimes to change and grow. But better the ache of muscles growing from an unaccustomed workout than the sting of wounds from an unnecessary fight.
Difficult Conversations
Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, Sheila Heen
One great thing about having small children is that they make you spend time on things that matter: them. They grab your sleeve as you’re staring at your phone and say “will you play with me?” And odds are that is in fact the bullshit-minimizing option.
Life Is Short
paulgraham.com
Civilizational memory can be understood in terms of three entangled strands — *affective*, *declarative*, and *procedural*. These correspond, roughly, to myth-based, event-based, and econo-legal senses of history.
Welcome to the Cosmopolis
Venkatesh Rao
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