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Not only do we have to be good at waiting, we have to love it. Because waiting is not waiting, it is life. Too many of us live without fully engaging our minds, waiting for that moment when our real lives begin.

Art of Learning by Josh Waitzkin

Josh Waitzkin

Conclusion: When fighting against a 7th-rank bishop’s pawn with the defending king on the wrong side of the pawn, the queen wins if her king is just two steps away from one of the two key squares (here, d7 and g6).

100 Endgames You Must Know

Jesus de La Villa

The real problem isn’t our limited time. The real problem—or so I hope to convince you—is that we’ve unwittingly inherited, and feel pressured to live by, a troublesome set of ideas about how to use our limited time, all of which are pretty much guaranteed to make things worse.

Four Thousand Weeks

Oliver Burkeman

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