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“Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.”

— Corrie ten Boom, a Dutch Christian, who with her father and other family members helped many Jews escape the Nazi Holocaust during World War II. Her family was arrested due to an informant in 1944, and her father died 10 days later at Scheveningen prison where they were first held. A sister, brother and nephew were released, but Corrie and her sister Betsie were sent to Ravensbruck concentration camp, where only Corrie survived.

"Money, fame, and prestige – they dangle just outside your reach it seems, encouraging you to lean…"

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“Money, fame, and prestige – they dangle just outside your reach it seems, encouraging you to lean farther and farther over the edge, to study longer and longer, to work harder and harder. When someone reminds you that acquiring currency while ignoring all else shouldn’t be your primary goal in life, it feels good. You retweet it. You post it on your wall. You forward it, and then you go back to work.”

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You Are Not So Smart: A Celebration of Self Delusion

Check out this blog. There are some very interesting posts about psychology and the human condition.

Click here to read the full blog post.

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"One of the interesting things about success is that we think we know what it means. A lot of the…"

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One of the interesting things about success is that we think we know what it means. A lot of the time our ideas about what it would mean to live successfully are not our own. They’re sucked in from other people. And we also suck in messages from everything from the television to advertising to marketing, etcetera. These are hugely powerful forces that define what we want and how we view ourselves.

What I want to argue for is not that we should give up on our ideas of success, but that we should make sure that they are our own. We should focus in on our ideas and make sure that we own them, that we’re truly the authors of our own ambitions. Because it’s bad enough not getting what you want, but it’s even worse to have an idea of what it is you want and find out at the end of the journey that it isn’t, in fact, what you wanted all along.

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– Philosopher Alain de Botton on finding purpose and success (via explore-blog)

"22. Nobody cares. Do it for your­self. Every­body is too busy with their own lives to give a damn…"

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“22. Nobody cares. Do it for your­self. Every­body is too busy with their own lives to give a damn about your book, pain­ting, screen­play etc, espe­cially if you haven’t sold it yet. And the ones that aren’t, you don’t want in your life any­way.”

– 30 insights from Hugh MacLeod on how to be creative. (via curiositycounts)

"It’s like making a movie: All sorts of accidental things will happen after you’ve set up the…"

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“It’s like making a movie: All sorts of accidental things will happen after you’ve set up the cameras. So you get lucky. Something will happen at the edge of the set and perhaps you start to go with that; you get some footage of that. You come into it accidentally. You set the story in motion, and as you’re watching this thing begins, all these opportunities will show up.”

– Kurt Vonnegut in Advice to Writers, one of 9 essential books on writing well. (via curiositycounts)

"The underlying assumption of brainstorming is that if people are scared of saying the wrong thing,…"

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“The underlying assumption of brainstorming is that if people are scared of saying the wrong thing, they’ll end up saying nothing at all. The appeal of this idea is obvious: it’s always nice to be saturated in positive feedback. Typically, participants leave a brainstorming session proud of their contribution. The whiteboard has been filled with free associations. Brainstorming seems like an ideal technique, a feel-good way to boost productivity. But there is a problem with brainstorming. It doesn’t work.”

– Jonah Lehrer rounds up decades worth of evidence debunking the myth of brainstorming. Lehrer’s new book, Imagine: How Creativity Works, comes out next month and is a must-read. (via curiositycounts)