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From my great-grandfather: not to have attended schools for the public; to have had good teachers at home, and to realize that this is the sort of thing on which one should spend lavishly.
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
The great innovators of the past have always needed what most modern workers lack: the time and training to think slowly and deeply. Leonardo da Vinci[26](9780063486478_Notes.xhtml#rfn88) was “allowed to be driven by pure curiosity,” as Walter Isaacson writes in his biography of da Vinci, because he had patrons who protected his time to explore and experiment without the urgency of efficiency.
Open to Work
Ryan Roslansky
Desire is a contract you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want. I don’t think most of us realize that’s what it is. I think we go about desiring things all day long and then wonder why we’re unhappy. I like to stay aware of it, because then I can choose my desires very carefully. I try not to have more than one big desire in my life at any given time, and I also recognize it as the axis of my suffering. I realize the area where I’ve chosen to be unhappy.
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
Eric Jorgenson
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