Acknowledge that you, yourself, are often the greatest impediment to your own success. It is sobering to realize that the acquisition of knowledge does not guarantee wisdom in its application — most investors know what they should do, but systematically fail to do it because of psychological forces they neither recognize nor control.
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And having traveled so much for 51 years around the globe, I've always felt that when I think of escape, it's not so important where you're escaping to, but what you're escaping from. And famously, if an angry person goes to Tibet, he starts complaining about the altitude. In other words, he's gone to a beautiful place, but he hasn't escaped himself.
Pico Iyer — TED Radio Hour
There's no such thing as therapy. There's therapy to solve a particular problem, a psychological problem at a particular at a particular time for a a particular purpose. There's no generic thing called therapy and and there's no, you know, generic idea of working on yourself in some kind of, you know, nebulous, unspecified way.
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What's left out of this legal determination, however, are the tactical missteps that contributed to the danger.
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