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The invention of Europe as a civilizational category is tantamount to the inventing of “the white people” as the normative measure of our humanity—and that invention must be reverse-engineered.
Europe and Its Shadows
Hamid Dabashi
Why do so many of us downplay luck in the face of compelling evidence of its importance? The tendency may owe in part to the fact th__at by emphasizing talent and hard work to the exclusion of other factors, successful people reinforce their claim to the money they’ve earned.__ But I’ll also consider a second possibility, which is that denying the importance of luck may actually help people surmount the many obstacles that litter almost every path to success.
Success and Luck
Robert H. Frank
Simplifying our activities doesn’t mean sinking into laziness; on the contrary, it means acquiring a growing freedom and counteracting the most subtle aspect of inertia—the impulse that, even when we know what really counts in life, prompts us instead to pursue a thousand trivial activities, one after the other, like ripples in the water.
Happiness
Matthieu Ricard
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