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33. The Fisher Protocol:
Leaders are often detached from the consequences of their decisions. Roger Fisher suggested implanting the country’s nuclear codes into a volunteer. To launch nukes, the President would have to personally kill the volunteer and thereby confront reality.
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@G_S_Bhogal on Twitter
50. Real optimism is not just a posture but a way of being.
Funnily, a lot of people pretend to be optimistic for social reasons, but aren’t fundamentally optimistic. You can tell by how they act. Optimists truly, casually believe that progress is possible, and act accordingly
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My failure to anticipate this, I realized, was due to my
being surprised by something that hadn't happened in my lifetime, though it had happened many times before. The message that reality was conveying to me was
You better make sense of what happened to other people in other times and other places because if you won't know if these things can happen to you and, if they do, you won't know how to deal with them.
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