Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years. But the deeper error is that they plan in one-year chunks at all — the unit of compounding is decades, not quarters.

Jeff Bezos — Amazon Shareholder Letter

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It is not irritating to be where one is. It is only irritating to think one would like to be somewhere else.

John Cage — Silence: Lectures and Writings

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You've probably been told that better choices come from more data or sharper reasoning, but neuroscience shows us that our choices are fundamentally emotional. Our feelings are the underlying 'context-setters' on which our rational brain acts. When we avoid certain emotional states, our solution set becomes constrained in ways we may not even be aware of.

Joe Hudson

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