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If you hurt other people because they have expectations of you, that’s their problem. If they have an agreement with you, it’s your problem. But, if they have an expectation of you, that’s completely their problem. It has nothing to do with you. They’re going to have lots of expectations out of life. The sooner you can dash their expectations, the better.
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
Eric Jorgenson
Abby is a two-time Olympic gold medalist soccer player and FIFA World Cup Champion. She was the United States’ leading scorer in the 2007 and 2011 Women’s World Cup tournaments and the 2004 and 2012 Olympics. In *Wolfpack,* Abby writes about the “Point and Run.” She explains that every time she scored a goal, the first thing she would do is point to the person who made the assist or the coach who called the play. And the run was about celebrating another person’s victory. She writes, “You will not always be the goal scorer. When you are not, you better be rushing toward her.”
Atlas of the Heart : Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience
Brown, Bren
What was most interesting to Schultz, however, was how things changed as the experiment proceeded. As the monkey became more and more practiced at the behavior—as the habit became stronger and stronger—Julio’s brain began anticipating the blackberry juice. Schultz’s probes started recording the “I got a reward!” pattern the instant Julio saw the shapes on the screen, before the juice arrived:
The Power of Habit
Charles Duhigg
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