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Writer and self-described happiness explorer Elizabeth Gilbert puts it best: “Happiness is the consequence of personal effort.... You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings.”24 We have the biological capability to create our own happiness through hard work.
Reality Is Broken
Jane McGonigal
A god who didn’t really suffer on the cross would be like a magician who performed an illusion, not someone who actually bled after sliding an icepick between his carpal bones.
Skin in the Game
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
After verbs, plain nouns are your strongest tools; they resonate with emotion.
On Writing Well
William Zinsser
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