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Eric Weiner Quote: “Also, the advice we were given as children when confronted with failure, “forget it and move on,” is dead wrong. “Remember it and move on” is the way of the genius. I.”

201. “Also, the advice we were given as children when confronted with failure, “forget it and move on,” is dead wrong. “Remember it and move on” is the way of the genius. I.”

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Eric Weiner Quote: “Khaldoun believed that the great curse of civilization is not war or famine but humidity: “When the moisture, with its evil vapors ascends to the brain, the mind and body and the ability to think are dulled. The result is stupidity, carelessness and a general intemperance.”

202. “Khaldoun believed that the great curse of civilization is not war or famine but humidity: “When the moisture, with its evil vapors ascends to the brain, the mind and body and the ability to think are dulled. The result is stupidity, carelessness and a general intemperance.”

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Eric Weiner Quote: “Better to fight for your principles than pretend you don’t have any.”

203. “Better to fight for your principles than pretend you don’t have any.”

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Eric Weiner Quote: “Nevertheless, a few brave researchers have bellied up to the laboratory.”

204. “Nevertheless, a few brave researchers have bellied up to the laboratory.”

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Eric Weiner Quote: “When people from similar backgrounds get together, are isolated from dissenting views, and are trying to please a strong leader, the result is consensus around the preferred position, even if it is clearly wrongheaded.”

205. “When people from similar backgrounds get together, are isolated from dissenting views, and are trying to please a strong leader, the result is consensus around the preferred position, even if it is clearly wrongheaded.”

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Eric Weiner Quote: “Jacob explains that he distinguishes ordinary questioning from “deep questioning.” Ordinary questioning skates along the surface, like Siri. Deep questioning is slow and immersive.”

206. “Jacob explains that he distinguishes ordinary questioning from “deep questioning.” Ordinary questioning skates along the surface, like Siri. Deep questioning is slow and immersive.”

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Eric Weiner Quote: “Geniuses are always marginalized to one degree or another. Someone wholly invested in the status quo is unlikely to disrupt it.”

207. “Geniuses are always marginalized to one degree or another. Someone wholly invested in the status quo is unlikely to disrupt it.”

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Eric Weiner Quote: “Pining for a different role is futile and will only cause you to suffer needlessly, like the dog dragged by the cart. We must learn, say the Stoics, “to desire what we have.” That sounds odd, I realize. Isn’t desire, by definition, a yearning for something we lack? How can we desire what we already have? Nietzsche, I think, answers the question best. Don’t resign yourself to your fate. Don’t accept your fate. Love it. Desire it. The.”

208. “Pining for a different role is futile and will only cause you to suffer needlessly, like the dog dragged by the cart. We must learn, say the Stoics, “to desire what we have.” That sounds odd, I realize. Isn’t desire, by definition, a yearning for something we lack? How can we desire what we already have? Nietzsche, I think, answers the question best. Don’t resign yourself to your fate. Don’t accept your fate. Love it. Desire it. The.”

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Eric Weiner Quote: “Imagine, says Epictetus, you handed over your body to a stranger on the street. Absurd, right? Yet that’s what we do with our mind every day. We cede our sovereignty to others, allowing them to colonize our mind. We need to evict them.”

209. “Imagine, says Epictetus, you handed over your body to a stranger on the street. Absurd, right? Yet that’s what we do with our mind every day. We cede our sovereignty to others, allowing them to colonize our mind. We need to evict them.”

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Eric Weiner Quote: “Yes, failure is part of the mix, he says, but it is a means, not an end. If you fail repeatedly, and in the same manner, you’re an idiot, not a genius.”

210. “Yes, failure is part of the mix, he says, but it is a means, not an end. If you fail repeatedly, and in the same manner, you’re an idiot, not a genius.”

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Eric Weiner Quote: “Arriving at answers of the heart demands not only patience but a willingness to sit with your ignorance. Staying with the doubt, the mystery, rather than rushing to solve the problem, to check off another item on your endless to-do list.”

211. “Arriving at answers of the heart demands not only patience but a willingness to sit with your ignorance. Staying with the doubt, the mystery, rather than rushing to solve the problem, to check off another item on your endless to-do list.”

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Eric Weiner Quote: “Civic life, though, was not optional, and Aristotle tells me the Athenians had a word for those who refused to participate in public affairs: idiotes. It is where we get our word idiot.”

212. “Civic life, though, was not optional, and Aristotle tells me the Athenians had a word for those who refused to participate in public affairs: idiotes. It is where we get our word idiot.”

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Eric Weiner Quote: “How we pursue the goal of happiness matters at least as much, perhaps more, than the goal itself.”

213. “How we pursue the goal of happiness matters at least as much, perhaps more, than the goal itself.”

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Eric Weiner Quote: “Every institution and social form we have is devoted either to solving problems or providing pleasure,” Needleman says.”

214. “Every institution and social form we have is devoted either to solving problems or providing pleasure,” Needleman says.”

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Eric Weiner Quote: “Hutton’s world consisted of his rocks and his friends. The rocks provided the raw material he needed to formulate his theories; the friends provided the guidance he needed to articulate those theories.”

215. “Hutton’s world consisted of his rocks and his friends. The rocks provided the raw material he needed to formulate his theories; the friends provided the guidance he needed to articulate those theories.”

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Eric Weiner Quote: “What distinguishes the genius from the also-ran is not necessarily how many times she succeeds but how many times she starts over. Music.”

216. “What distinguishes the genius from the also-ran is not necessarily how many times she succeeds but how many times she starts over. Music.”

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Eric Weiner Quote: “This dynamic explains why we see spikes in professions at certain times and in certain places. The number of geniuses who appear in any given field at any given time is a function not of the pool of talent available but, rather, the attractiveness of the field.”

217. “This dynamic explains why we see spikes in professions at certain times and in certain places. The number of geniuses who appear in any given field at any given time is a function not of the pool of talent available but, rather, the attractiveness of the field.”

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Eric Weiner Quote: “Something wasn’t right though. That golden rule of positive psychology, hedonic adaptation, states that no matter what tragedy or good fortune befalls us, we adapt. We return to our “set point” or close enough anyway. It’s been fifteen years since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Why hasn’t Luba adapted?”

218. “Something wasn’t right though. That golden rule of positive psychology, hedonic adaptation, states that no matter what tragedy or good fortune befalls us, we adapt. We return to our “set point” or close enough anyway. It’s been fifteen years since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Why hasn’t Luba adapted?”

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Eric Weiner Quote: “The world is one. When we help another person, we help ourselves. We feel the pain of others the way we feel the pain in our finger. Not as something foreign, but as part of us.”

219. “The world is one. When we help another person, we help ourselves. We feel the pain of others the way we feel the pain in our finger. Not as something foreign, but as part of us.”

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Eric Weiner Quote: “Too much recollection isn’t good. We risk remaining shackled to our past selves: forever the heroic soldier or beautiful young woman. This kind of.”

220. “Too much recollection isn’t good. We risk remaining shackled to our past selves: forever the heroic soldier or beautiful young woman. This kind of.”

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Eric Weiner Quote: “Bertrand Russell, the British philosopher, concludes his book The Conquest of Happiness by describing a happy person thus: “Such a man feels himself a citizen of the universe, enjoying freely the spectacle that it offers and the joy that it affords, untroubled by the thoughts of death because he feels himself not really separated from those who will come after him. It is in such a profound instinctive union with the stream of life that the greatest joy is to be found.”

221. “Bertrand Russell, the British philosopher, concludes his book The Conquest of Happiness by describing a happy person thus: “Such a man feels himself a citizen of the universe, enjoying freely the spectacle that it offers and the joy that it affords, untroubled by the thoughts of death because he feels himself not really separated from those who will come after him. It is in such a profound instinctive union with the stream of life that the greatest joy is to be found.”

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Eric Weiner Quote: “Happiness is a choice. Not an easy choice, not always a desirable one, but a choice nonetheless.”

222. “Happiness is a choice. Not an easy choice, not always a desirable one, but a choice nonetheless.”

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Eric Weiner Quote: “By talking to others he learned how to converse with himself.”

223. “By talking to others he learned how to converse with himself.”

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Eric Weiner Quote: “The problems we discover on our own are the ones that motivate us the most.”

224. “The problems we discover on our own are the ones that motivate us the most.”

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Eric Weiner Quote: “To know – truly know – what it means to be a good father is to be one. It was.”

225. “To know – truly know – what it means to be a good father is to be one. It was.”

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