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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Yuval Noah Harari)
- Your Highlight on page 122 | Location 1867-1873 | Added on Tuesday, June 12, 2018 7:29:31 PM

most important drivers are inter-subjective: law, money, gods, nations. Peugeot, for example, is not the imaginary friend of Peugeot’s CEO. The company exists in the shared imagination of millions of people. The CEO believes in the company’s existence because the board of directors also believes in it, as do the company’s lawyers, the secretaries in the nearby office, the tellers in the bank, the brokers on the stock exchange, and car dealers from France to Australia. If the CEO alone were suddenly to stop believing in Peugeot’s existence, he’d quickly land in the nearest mental hospital and someone else would occupy his office. Similarly, the dollar, human rights and the United States of America exist in the shared imagination of billions, and no single individual can threaten their existence.
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Yuval Noah Harari)
- Your Highlight on page 155 | Location 2365-2366 | Added on Monday, June 18, 2018 7:24:42 PM

Males must prove their masculinity constantly, throughout their lives, from cradle to grave, in an endless series of rites and performances. And a woman’s work is never done – she must continually convince herself and others that she is feminine enough.
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Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (Eliezer Yudkowsky)
- Your Highlight on page 929 | Location 14238-14239 | Added on Tuesday, July 10, 2018 2:47:15 PM

I see little hope for democracy as an effective form of government, but I admire the poetry of how it makes its victims complicit in their own destruction.”
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Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (Eliezer Yudkowsky)
- Your Highlight on page 1529 | Location 23435-23436 | Added on Friday, July 13, 2018 8:49:48 PM

allocating blame never helps anything unless you blame yourself, because you’re the only one whose actions you can change by putting blame there.
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Yuval Noah Harari)
- Your Highlight on page 242 | Location 3698-3700 | Added on Thursday, September 13, 2018 6:53:48 PM

This approach is sometimes called memetics. It assumes that, just as organic evolution is based on the replication of organic information units called ‘genes’, so cultural evolution is based on the replication of cultural information units called ‘memes’.
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How to Win Friends and Influence People (Dale Carnegie)
- Your Highlight on page 14 | Location 203-204 | Added on Saturday, September 22, 2018 7:48:10 PM

“My popularity, my happiness and sense of worth depend to no small extent upon my skill in dealing with people.”
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How to Win Friends and Influence People (Dale Carnegie)
- Your Highlight on page 16 | Location 241-244 | Added on Saturday, September 22, 2018 7:52:55 PM

I asked myself: “‘What mistakes did I make that time?’ “‘What did I do that was right—and in what way could I have improved my performance?’ “‘What lessons can I learn from that experience?’
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How to Win Friends and Influence People (Dale Carnegie)
- Your Highlight on page 20 | Location 303-304 | Added on Saturday, September 22, 2018 7:58:38 PM

people don’t criticize themselves for anything, no matter how wrong it may be.
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How to Win Friends and Influence People (Dale Carnegie)
- Your Highlight on page 20 | Location 304-305 | Added on Saturday, September 22, 2018 7:58:57 PM

Criticism is futile because it puts a person on the defensive and usually makes him strive to justify himself. Criticism is dangerous, because it wounds a person’s precious pride, hurts his sense of importance, and arouses resentment.
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How to Win Friends and Influence People (Dale Carnegie)
- Your Highlight on page 32 | Location 479-479 | Added on Saturday, September 22, 2018 8:38:30 PM

Don’t criticize, condemn or complain.
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How to Win Friends and Influence People (Dale Carnegie)
- Your Highlight on page 32 | Location 482-483 | Added on Saturday, September 22, 2018 8:39:04 PM

There is only one way under high heaven to get anybody to do anything. Did you ever stop to think of that? Yes, just one way. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
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How to Win Friends and Influence People (Dale Carnegie)
- Your Highlight on page 38 | Location 575-576 | Added on Sunday, September 23, 2018 7:35:52 PM

“I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among my people,” said Schwab, “the greatest asset I possess, and the way to develop the best that is in a person is by appreciation and encouragement.
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How to Win Friends and Influence People (Dale Carnegie)
- Your Highlight on page 44 | Location 671-671 | Added on Monday, September 24, 2018 7:03:34 PM

Give honest and sincere appreciation.
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How to Win Friends and Influence People (Dale Carnegie)
- Your Highlight on page 46 | Location 703-704 | Added on Monday, September 24, 2018 7:07:08 PM

the only way to influence people is to talk in terms of what the other person wants.
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How to Win Friends and Influence People (Dale Carnegie)
- Your Highlight on page 61 | Location 935-938 | Added on Monday, September 24, 2018 7:34:43 PM

PRINCIPLE 1 Don’t criticize, condemn or complain. PRINCIPLE 2 Give honest and sincere appreciation. PRINCIPLE 3 Arouse in the other person an eager want.
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The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck (Mark Manson)
- Your Highlight on page 92 | Location 1399-1400 | Added on Friday, October 26, 2018 7:39:17 PM

And then I realized that each individual gets to decide what is “enough,” and that love can be whatever we let it be.
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The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck (Mark Manson)
- Your Highlight on page 94 | Location 1435-1436 | Added on Friday, October 26, 2018 7:42:47 PM

Instead of looking to be right all the time, we should be looking for how we’re wrong all the time. Because we are. Being
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The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck (Mark Manson)
- Your Highlight on page 94 | Location 1435-1436 | Added on Friday, October 26, 2018 7:43:04 PM

Instead of looking to be right all the time, we should be looking for how we’re wrong all the time. Because we are.
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The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck (Mark Manson)
- Your Highlight on page 107 | Location 1640-1640 | Added on Saturday, October 27, 2018 10:22:04 PM

The more something threatens your identity, the more you will avoid it.
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The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck (Mark Manson)
- Your Highlight on page 111 | Location 1701-1701 | Added on Saturday, October 27, 2018 10:29:03 PM

Question #1: What if I’m wrong?
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The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck (Mark Manson)
- Your Highlight on page 113 | Location 1720-1721 | Added on Saturday, October 27, 2018 10:33:53 PM

What would it mean if I were wrong? Many people are
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The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck (Mark Manson)
- Your Highlight on page 113 | Location 1724-1725 | Added on Saturday, October 27, 2018 10:34:53 PM

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”
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The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck (Mark Manson)
- Your Highlight on page 114 | Location 1734-1735 | Added on Saturday, October 27, 2018 10:37:14 PM

Would being wrong create a better or a worse problem than my current problem, for both myself and others?
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The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck (Mark Manson)
- Your Highlight on page 118 | Location 1807-1809 | Added on Sunday, October 28, 2018 6:57:21 PM

A lot of this fear of failure comes from having chosen shitty values. For instance, if I measure myself by the standard “Make everyone I meet like me,” I will be anxious, because failure is 100 percent defined by the actions of others, not by my own actions. I am not in control; thus my self-worth is at the mercy of judgments by others.
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The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck (Mark Manson)
- Your Highlight on page 121 | Location 1844-1846 | Added on Sunday, October 28, 2018 7:08:31 PM

necessary pain of psychological growth. And to deny that pain is to deny our own potential. Just as one must suffer physical pain to build stronger bone and muscle, one must suffer emotional pain to develop greater emotional resilience, a stronger sense of self, increased compassion, and a
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The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck (Mark Manson)
- Your Highlight on page 121 | Location 1845-1847 | Added on Sunday, October 28, 2018 7:09:32 PM

And to deny that pain is to deny our own potential. Just as one must suffer physical pain to build stronger bone and muscle, one must suffer emotional pain to develop greater emotional resilience, a stronger sense of self, increased compassion, and a generally happier life.
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The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck (Mark Manson)
- Your Highlight on page 124 | Location 1896-1896 | Added on Sunday, October 28, 2018 7:18:52 PM

Life is about not knowing and then doing something anyway.
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The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck (Mark Manson)
- Your Highlight on page 137 | Location 2100-2103 | Added on Tuesday, October 30, 2018 7:17:27 PM

In general, entitled people fall into one of two traps in their relationships. Either they expect other people to take responsibility for their problems: “I wanted a nice relaxing weekend at home. You should have known that and canceled your plans.” Or they take on too much responsibility for other people’s problems: “She just lost her job again, but it’s probably my fault because I wasn’t as supportive of her as I could have been. I’m going to help her rewrite her résumé tomorrow.”
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Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (Eliezer Yudkowsky)
- Your Highlight on page 81 | Location 1238-1239 | Added on Thursday, November 1, 2018 7:42:08 PM

the fundamental question of rationality: Why do you believe what you believe? What do you think you know and how do you think you know it?
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Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (Eliezer Yudkowsky)
- Your Highlight on page 82 | Location 1256-1258 | Added on Thursday, November 1, 2018 7:44:17 PM

people form close friendships by knowing private things about each other, and the reason most people don’t make close friends is because they’re too embarrassed to share anything really important about themselves.”
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Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (Eliezer Yudkowsky)
- Your Highlight on page 83 | Location 1260-1260 | Added on Thursday, November 1, 2018 7:45:46 PM

reciprocation pressure for an unsolicited gift,
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Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (Eliezer Yudkowsky)
- Your Highlight on page 83 | Location 1269-1270 | Added on Thursday, November 1, 2018 7:46:26 PM

A pause to reflect could go a long way in defusing the power of a lot of compliance techniques,
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Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (Eliezer Yudkowsky)
- Your Highlight on page 365 | Location 5596-5597 | Added on Wednesday, November 7, 2018 7:35:06 PM

Reality, Philip K. Dick had once said, is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.
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Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (Eliezer Yudkowsky)
- Your Highlight on page 517 | Location 7919-7920 | Added on Sunday, November 11, 2018 7:57:23 PM

“it can be dangerous to give people compliments like that when they have not been truly earned. The recipient might feel bashful and undeserving and want to do something worthy of your praise.
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Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (Eliezer Yudkowsky)
- Your Highlight on page 785 | Location 12031-12032 | Added on Thursday, November 15, 2018 6:15:09 PM

people who tried to defend themselves got questioned over every little point and could never satisfy their interrogators; but
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Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (Eliezer Yudkowsky)
- Your Highlight on page 785 | Location 12028-12030 | Added on Thursday, November 15, 2018 6:15:19 PM

“The more you try to justify yourself to people like that, the more it acknowledges that they have the right to question you. It shows you think they get to be your inquisitor, and once you grant someone that sort of power over you, they just push more and more.” This
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Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (Eliezer Yudkowsky)
- Your Highlight on page 1177 | Location 18036-18037 | Added on Saturday, November 24, 2018 9:10:03 PM

they didn’t deserve to die. But they did deserve to be stripped naked and glued to the ceiling.”
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Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (Eliezer Yudkowsky)
- Your Highlight on page 1902 | Location 29163-29166 | Added on Wednesday, December 5, 2018 8:14:45 PM

Even if the stars should die in heaven, Our sins can never be undone. No single death will be forgiven When fades at last the last lit sun. Then in the cold and silent black As light and matter end, We’ll have ourselves a last look back And toast an absent friend.
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The Great Gatsby (Francis Scott Fitzgerald)
- Your Highlight on page 2 | Location 25-26 | Added on Saturday, December 8, 2018 8:58:57 PM

"Whenever you feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had."
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As a Man Thinketh (Dover Empower Your Life) (James Allen)
- Your Highlight on page 2 | Location 29-30 | Added on Saturday, January 19, 2019 7:53:53 PM

A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts.
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Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (Eliezer Yudkowsky)
- Your Highlight on page 81 | Location 1229-1230 | Added on Wednesday, January 23, 2019 7:21:41 PM

Robert Cialdini’s Influence: Science and Practice
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Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (Eliezer Yudkowsky)
- Your Highlight on page 383 | Location 5869-5870 | Added on Tuesday, January 29, 2019 7:34:40 PM

Litany of Gendlin: What’s true is already so, owning up to it doesn’t make it worse.
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Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (Eliezer Yudkowsky)
- Your Highlight on page 622 | Location 9529-9530 | Added on Friday, February 1, 2019 9:57:33 PM

a book called Thinking Physics.
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Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (Eliezer Yudkowsky)
- Your Highlight on page 785 | Location 12028-12030 | Added on Sunday, February 3, 2019 8:27:47 PM

“The more you try to justify yourself to people like that, the more it acknowledges that they have the right to question you. It shows you think they get to be your inquisitor, and once you grant someone that sort of power over you, they just push more and more.” This
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Never_Eat_Alone (Kenneth Skodje)
- Your Highlight on page 6 | Location 90-93 | Added on Sunday, March 10, 2019 11:38:24 AM

I came to believe that in some very specific ways life, like golf, is a game, and that the people who know the rules, and know them well, play it best and succeed. And the rule in life that has unprecedented power is that the individual who knows the right people, for the right reasons, and utilizes the power of these relationships, can become a member of the "club," whether he started out as a caddie or not.
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Never_Eat_Alone (Kenneth Skodje)
- Your Highlight on page 8 | Location 118-119 | Added on Sunday, March 10, 2019 11:42:26 AM

Business is a human enterprise, driven and determined by people.
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Never_Eat_Alone (Kenneth Skodje)
- Your Highlight on page 16 | Location 233-233 | Added on Sunday, March 10, 2019 11:59:04 AM

You've got to be more than willing to accept generosity. Often, you've got to go out and ask for it."
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Never_Eat_Alone (Kenneth Skodje)
- Your Highlight on page 24 | Location 354-355 | Added on Sunday, March 10, 2019 12:15:27 PM

no one becomes an astronaut by accident.
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Never_Eat_Alone (Kenneth Skodje)
- Your Highlight on page 24 | Location 356-357 | Added on Sunday, March 10, 2019 12:16:56 PM

Have you set goals? Have you written them down? Do you have a plan to accomplish them?
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Never_Eat_Alone (Kenneth Skodje)
- Your Highlight on page 26 | Location 386-386 | Added on Sunday, March 10, 2019 12:19:45 PM

"A goal is a dream with a deadline."
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Never_Eat_Alone (Kenneth Skodje)
- Your Highlight on page 28 | Location 419-421 | Added on Sunday, March 10, 2019 12:24:06 PM

don't attempt to censure or edit the nature of the list—I put anything and everything down. Next to that first list, I write down in a second column all the things that bring me joy and pleasure: the achievements, people, and things that move me.
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Dune (Frank Herbert)
- Your Highlight on page 72 | Location 1101-1102 | Added on Sunday, April 7, 2019 11:40:04 AM

“The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance.
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Smartcuts: How Hackers, Innovators, and Icons Accelerate Success (Shane Snow)
- Your Highlight on page 20 | Location 298-299 | Added on Sunday, April 21, 2019 12:15:09 PM

“A series of wins at small but significant tasks, however, reveals a pattern that may attract allies, deter opponents, and lower resistance to subsequent proposals.”
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Smartcuts: How Hackers, Innovators, and Icons Accelerate Success (Shane Snow)
- Your Highlight on page 42 | Location 636-638 | Added on Sunday, April 21, 2019 12:43:07 PM

a smartcut-savvy mentee approaches things a bit differently. She develops personal relationships with her mentors, asks their advice on other aspects of life, not just the formal challenge at hand. And she cares about her mentors’ lives too.
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Smartcuts: How Hackers, Innovators, and Icons Accelerate Success (Shane Snow)
- Your Highlight on page 53 | Location 810-811 | Added on Sunday, April 21, 2019 12:59:56 PM

“Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.”
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Smartcuts: How Hackers, Innovators, and Icons Accelerate Success (Shane Snow)
- Your Highlight on page 58 | Location 879-881 | Added on Sunday, April 21, 2019 1:14:36 PM

attribution theory. The theory says that people explain their successes and failures “by attributing them to factors that will allow them to feel as good as possible about themselves.”
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Smartcuts: How Hackers, Innovators, and Icons Accelerate Success (Shane Snow)
- Your Highlight on page 59 | Location 890-892 | Added on Sunday, April 21, 2019 1:15:34 PM

“When interpreting their own failures,” Staats explains, “individuals tend to make external attributions, pointing to factors that are outside of their direct control, such as luck. As a result, their motivation to exert effort on the same task in the future is reduced.”
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Smartcuts: How Hackers, Innovators, and Icons Accelerate Success (Shane Snow)
- Your Highlight on page 62 | Location 947-948 | Added on Sunday, April 21, 2019 1:21:17 PM

the closer feedback moves our attention to ourselves, the worse it is for us.
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Smartcuts: How Hackers, Innovators, and Icons Accelerate Success (Shane Snow)
- Your Highlight on page 63 | Location 953-954 | Added on Sunday, April 21, 2019 1:24:46 PM

feared failure. The tough part about negative feedback is in separating ourselves from the perceived
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Smartcuts: How Hackers, Innovators, and Icons Accelerate Success (Shane Snow)
- Your Highlight on page 63 | Location 953-954 | Added on Sunday, April 21, 2019 1:24:52 PM

The tough part about negative feedback is in separating ourselves from the perceived failure and turning our experiences into objective experiments.
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Smartcuts: How Hackers, Innovators, and Icons Accelerate Success (Shane Snow)
- Your Highlight on page 64 | Location 967-968 | Added on Sunday, April 21, 2019 1:26:21 PM

three things to accelerate its performers’ growth: (1) it gives them rapid feedback; (2) it depersonalizes the feedback; and (3) it lowers the stakes and pressure, so students take risks that force them to improve.
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Smartcuts: How Hackers, Innovators, and Icons Accelerate Success (Shane Snow)
- Your Highlight on page 97 | Location 1483-1483 | Added on Sunday, April 21, 2019 4:54:21 PM

book by Ryan Tate called The 20% Doctrine)
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Smartcuts: How Hackers, Innovators, and Icons Accelerate Success (Shane Snow)
- Your Highlight on page 111 | Location 1696-1697 | Added on Sunday, April 28, 2019 11:34:39 AM

This is the idea behind what I call superconnecting, the act of making mass connections by tapping into hubs with many spokes.
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Smartcuts: How Hackers, Innovators, and Icons Accelerate Success (Shane Snow)
- Your Highlight on page 117 | Location 1780-1782 | Added on Sunday, April 28, 2019 11:52:37 AM

“It just involves a focus on acting in the interests of others, such as by giving help, providing mentoring, sharing credit, or making connections for others.”
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Smartcuts: How Hackers, Innovators, and Icons Accelerate Success (Shane Snow)
- Your Highlight on page 127 | Location 1934-1935 | Added on Sunday, April 28, 2019 12:10:28 PM

The answer, it turned out, is simply progress. A sense of forward motion. Regardless how small.
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Dune (Frank Herbert)
- Your Highlight on page 572 | Location 8767-8768 | Added on Wednesday, May 1, 2019 8:26:57 PM

“All men beneath your position covet your station,”
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Smartcuts: How Hackers, Innovators, and Icons Accelerate Success (Shane Snow)
- Your Note on page 257 | Location 3935 | Added on Monday, May 6, 2019 7:45:17 PM

Overall great book wijth good ideas. Boils downn tk just a few things though. Work smarter not harder. Challenge The status quo.
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168 Hours: You Have More Time Than You Think (Laura Vanderkam)
- Your Highlight on page 6 | Location 84-85 | Added on Monday, May 6, 2019 7:56:02 PM

What made that particular Tuesday a good day was the high proportion of hours I spent on things that relate to my life goals.
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Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (Eliezer Yudkowsky)
- Your Highlight on page 82 | Location 1248-1249 | Added on Monday, May 13, 2019 8:39:05 PM

“If I lied the first time, I’m not going to tell you the truth just because you ask twice.” There was a certain pause as Draco absorbed this.
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Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (Eliezer Yudkowsky)
- Your Highlight on page 117 | Location 1788-1789 | Added on Wednesday, May 15, 2019 7:21:27 PM

Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases
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Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (Eliezer Yudkowsky)
- Your Highlight on page 324 | Location 4955-4956 | Added on Tuesday, May 21, 2019 8:57:14 PM

The import of an act lies not in what that act resembles on the surface, Mr. Potter, but in the states of mind which make that act more or less probable.”
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Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (Eliezer Yudkowsky)
- Your Highlight on page 451 | Location 6911-6912 | Added on Saturday, May 25, 2019 12:26:07 PM

“That your strength as a rationalist is your ability to be more confused by fiction than by reality,”
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Draco Malfoy and the Practice of Rationality (taogaming)
- Your Highlight on page 63 | Location 961-962 | Added on Monday, June 10, 2019 8:05:23 PM

In any experience, people remember the most dramatic moment and the final moment
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Draco Malfoy and the Practice of Rationality (taogaming)
- Your Highlight on page 88 | Location 1340-1340 | Added on Monday, June 10, 2019 8:54:50 PM

Asking someone for a favor can form a powerful bond.
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Draco Malfoy and the Practice of Rationality (taogaming)
- Your Highlight on page 97 | Location 1484-1484 | Added on Monday, June 10, 2019 9:21:38 PM

"A fact your enemy does not know is a handful of Galleons. A fact your enemy knows incorrectly is a treasure beyond price."
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Draco Malfoy and the Practice of Rationality (taogaming)
- Your Highlight on page 123 | Location 1876-1876 | Added on Tuesday, June 11, 2019 4:51:36 PM

"Trust but verify. Distrust and verify. Remain uncertain and verify. Always verify." -
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Significant Digits (adeebus)
- Your Highlight on page 417 | Location 6382-6383 | Added on Thursday, June 27, 2019 3:33:39 PM

"Always leave a way for the opponent to achieve a small victory… so long as they know it's a victory you grant them."
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Pokemon: The Origin of Species (DaystarEld)
- Your Highlight on page 420 | Location 6437-6439 | Added on Friday, September 6, 2019 9:42:19 PM

there are seven general traits to effective persuasion. Ready to write things down?" Leaf finishes her last thought and starts a new paragraph. "Hit me with them." "Repetition, Consistency, Social Proof, Agitate then Solve, Prognosticate, Tribalism, and Storytelling."
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Pokemon: The Origin of Species (DaystarEld)
- Your Highlight on page 1230 | Location 18859-18860 | Added on Wednesday, September 18, 2019 12:33:30 PM

"Still have to survive long enough to get there, though. To reach the hill I'm willing to die on, so to speak."
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Getting to Yes (ROGER, FISHER)
- Your Highlight on page 28 | Location 416-416 | Added on Sunday, September 29, 2019 4:47:40 PM

perception, emotion, and communication. The various people problems all fall into one of these three baskets.
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Knock 'em Dead Job Interview (Martin Yate)
- Your Highlight on page 6 | Location 83-84 | Added on Friday, October 11, 2019 1:15:08 PM

Understanding how your customers make buying decisions Understanding what your customers
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Knock 'em Dead Job Interview (Martin Yate)
- Your Highlight on page 6 | Location 84-86 | Added on Friday, October 11, 2019 1:15:13 PM

want to buy Identifying what you have for sale that they want to buy Tailoring your sales pitch to your customer’s needs Selling what you have to offer
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Knock 'em Dead Job Interview (Martin Yate)
- Your Highlight on page 22 | Location 324-331 | Added on Sunday, October 13, 2019 9:22:26 AM

The Plan, Do, Review Cycle At the end of every day, review what you’ve accomplished: What happened: A.M. and P.M.? What went well? Do more of it. What went wrong? How do I fix it? What projects do I need to move forward tomorrow? Rank each project. A = Must be completed tomorrow. B = Good to be completed tomorrow. C = If there is spare time from A and B priorities. Make a prioritized To Do list. Stick to it. Doing
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Knock 'em Dead Job Interview (Martin Yate)
- Your Highlight on page 40 | Location 610-612 | Added on Sunday, October 13, 2019 9:36:55 AM

follow-up question of your own. For example: “The areas of expertise you require sound like a match to my experience, and it sounds as if you have some exciting projects at hand. What projects would I be involved with in the first few months?”
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Knock 'em Dead Job Interview (Martin Yate)
- Your Highlight on page 48 | Location 723-730 | Added on Sunday, October 13, 2019 9:55:57 AM

“What are the major responsibilities in this job?” “What will be the first project(s) I’ll tackle?” or “Which projects will I be most involved with during the first six months?” “What are you looking for in the candidate you hire?” “What are the most important skills for making a success of the job on a day-to-day basis?” “Where have you found candidates or failed employees lacking?” “What problems do new employees have in adjusting to the job?” “What is the most challenging aspect of the job?” “Who succeeds in this job and why?”
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Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (Eliezer Yudkowsky)
- Your Highlight on page 1563 | Location 23961-23962 | Added on Sunday, February 2, 2020 7:05:58 PM

Children always grow up and away from their parents, and the parents always follow them from behind, offering helpful advice.
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Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (Eliezer Yudkowsky)
- Your Highlight on page 1670 | Location 25602-25603 | Added on Tuesday, February 4, 2020 7:23:09 PM

boredom; and the author had gone on to say that to find happiness in life you asked yourself not what would make you happy,
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Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (Eliezer Yudkowsky)
- Your Highlight on page 13 | Location 198-200 | Added on Sunday, December 13, 2020 7:57:02 PM

“I am a conscientious objector to child conscription, on grounds that I should not have to suffer for a disintegrating school system’s failure to provide teachers or study materials of even minimally adequate quality.”
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Mother of Learning (nobody103)
- Your Highlight on page 327 | Location 5011-5013 | Added on Wednesday, January 27, 2021 7:02:19 PM

"First of all, everything matters. You are what you do, and if I were to start doing stupid things just because there is seemingly no consequence for them, those actions would eventually come to define me.
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A Practical Guide To Evil: Book 3 (erraticerrata)
- Your Highlight on page 505 | Location 7743-7743 | Added on Thursday, April 1, 2021 6:22:55 PM

Some creative reframing of the truth may have
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A Practical Guide To Evil: Book 6 (erraticerrata)
- Your Highlight on page 594 | Location 9099-9100 | Added on Wednesday, June 16, 2021 7:46:50 PM

“Ah, I am afraid my careless words led to a misunderstanding,”
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A Practical Guide To Evil: Book 7 (erraticerrata)
- Your Highlight on page 166 | Location 2532-2540 | Added on Monday, July 5, 2021 10:38:49 PM

It was, uh, remarkably straightforward. “This is an acid pool,” Archer said, looking down at, well, that . “So it is,” Akua cheerfully replied. It was maybe three feet below the threshold we stood at, and there was no way to tell how deep it ran. The length of the hallway was at least thirty feet, which made it a laughable notion to try jumping. “How do people usually get through it?” I asked. “They bring a specially crafted silver bridge,” Akua smiled. “With a mage around you could make a bridge across out of shields,” Indrani noted. A heartbeat later, there was a little shiver across the room as a pulse of... something went through the air. I cocked an eyebrow at Akua. “Raw magic,” she said. “It would disrupt any ongoing spell formula.
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Beware Of Chicken (Casualfarmer)
- Your Highlight on page 188 | Location 2883-2883 | Added on Friday, August 6, 2021 2:50:26 PM

We may make our choices, but in the end-- “ “Our choices make us.”
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The Ride of a Lifetime (Robert Iger;)
- Your Highlight on page 13 | Location 190-192 | Added on Thursday, August 26, 2021 9:44:59 PM

pictures. I struggled to smile and go on with the show. It was a stark example of the truth that what people see on the outside so often doesn’t reflect what’s happening on the inside. When
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The Ride of a Lifetime (Robert Iger;)
- Your Highlight on page 16 | Location 242-243 | Added on Wednesday, September 22, 2021 11:50:13 PM

Simply put, people are not motivated or energized by pessimists.
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The Ride of a Lifetime (Robert Iger;)
- Your Highlight on page 79 | Location 1199-1202 | Added on Thursday, September 23, 2021 11:15:13 PM

It’s a hard thing to do, especially in the moment, but those instances in which you find yourself hoping that something will work without being able to convincingly explain to yourself how it will work—that’s when a little bell should go off, and you should walk yourself through some clarifying questions. What’s the problem I need to solve? Does this solution make sense?
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The Ride of a Lifetime (Robert Iger;)
- Your Highlight on page 156 | Location 2384-2386 | Added on Saturday, September 25, 2021 8:14:58 AM

Theodore Roosevelt’s “The Man in the Arena” speech, which has long been an inspiration: “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood.” My
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The Ride of a Lifetime (Robert Iger;)
- Your Highlight on page 231 | Location 3541-3542 | Added on Wednesday, October 6, 2021 11:22:28 PM

Don’t start negatively, and don’t start small. People will often focus on little details as a way of masking a lack of any clear, coherent, big thoughts. If you start petty, you seem petty.
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Pokemon: The Origin of Species (DaystarEld)
- Your Highlight on page 659 | Location 10102-10102 | Added on Monday, October 18, 2021 11:13:41 PM

"The path to strength is a path of hardship. To fear failure is to fear becoming strong."
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Pokemon: The Origin of Species (DaystarEld)
- Your Highlight on page 670 | Location 10266-10270 | Added on Monday, October 18, 2021 11:31:33 PM

You cannot control the world around you. You can only react. While our eyes are closed, and we focus on our breathing, you will think random thoughts. You will hear things that draw your attention. A door closing in another office, or a phone ringing. They will distract you, return you to the river's flow. Your job is to stay above the current. To sit on a rock in its waters, letting them flow around you, through you, wet without being submerged. When a thought flows by, pick it up, examine it… then let it go. Return to your breathing, your awareness of your body, and you will be at peace, no matter how the river rages."
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Pokemon: The Origin of Species (DaystarEld)
- Your Highlight on page 1351 | Location 20709-20711 | Added on Saturday, October 30, 2021 11:55:30 PM

Those things that vie for your attention, but do nothing to further your goals, should be cut out from consideration. Talent is easy to find, Mr. Verres. Great success comes first and foremost from the discipline to make productive use of your time."
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Pokemon: The Origin of Species (DaystarEld)
- Your Highlight on page 1359 | Location 20833-20837 | Added on Sunday, October 31, 2021 9:33:52 PM

What we're looking for is a moderately sized group, where an extra arrival or two wouldn't come off as intrusive." She gestures with her elbow as they pass people, all of which do indeed look like 'moderately sized groups,' no fewer than four and no more than seven, as far as Red can quickly discern. "There's not really such a thing as one that's too big, but when groups get big enough in a setting like this they tend to fracture into smaller ones, and we don't really want to be an active cause to that unless there's someone who seems like a straggler themself that we want to try and poach from a conversation. Then, look for
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Pokemon: The Origin of Species (DaystarEld)
- Your Highlight on page 1360 | Location 20839-20842 | Added on Sunday, October 31, 2021 9:34:12 PM

"Lots of empty space between the members that we can sidle into. And for what they seem to be doing… ideally you want to enter at a time where one person appears to be the main one talking, like either telling a story or explaining something, rather than a more intimate and active conversation. An energetic debate works too. Something that doesn't come off as private, basically, something we can enter as participants."
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The Moth Presents All These Wonders (Catherine Burns)
- Your Highlight on page 53 | Location 806-806 | Added on Monday, November 1, 2021 11:56:59 PM

accept what you can’t change.
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Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In (Roger Fisher;William L. Ury;Bruce Patton)
- Your Highlight on page 20 | Location 294-296 | Added on Saturday, November 20, 2021 11:31:50 PM

look for mutual gains whenever possible, and that where your interests conflict, you should insist that the result be based on some fair standards independent of the will of either side.
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59 Seconds (Richard Wiseman)
- Your Highlight on page 14 | Location 205-206 | Added on Sunday, December 5, 2021 11:25:54 PM

spend a few moments each week writing. The first group listed five things for which they were grateful,
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59 Seconds (Richard Wiseman)
- Your Highlight on page 16 | Location 237-240 | Added on Sunday, December 5, 2021 11:30:00 PM

Monday: Thanksgiving There are many things in your life for which to be grateful. These might include having close friends, being in a wonderful relationship, benefiting from sacrifices that others have made for you, being part of a supportive family, and enjoying good health, a nice home, or
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59 Seconds (Richard Wiseman)
- Your Highlight on page 30 | Location 460-462 | Added on Monday, December 6, 2021 12:58:06 AM

if you set children to an activity that they enjoy and reward them for doing it, the reward reduces the enjoyment and demotivates them. Within a few seconds you transform play into work.
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59 Seconds (Richard Wiseman)
- Your Highlight on page 33 | Location 506-507 | Added on Monday, December 6, 2021 1:03:33 AM

Those who had managed to ingratiate themselves were very likely to be offered a position, and they charmed their way to success in several different ways.
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59 Seconds (Richard Wiseman)
- Your Highlight on page 37 | Location 553-561 | Added on Monday, December 6, 2021 1:08:26 AM

First Remember that likeability is more important than academic achievements and work experience, so … find something that you truly like about the organization, and let your opinion be known feel free to give a genuine compliment to the interviewer chat about a non-job-related topic that you and the interviewer find interesting show interest in the interviewer. Ask what type of person is being sought and how the position fits into the overall organization be enthusiastic about the position and the organization smile and maintain eye contact with the interviewer
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Children of Dune (Frank Herbert)
- Your Highlight on page 166 | Location 2537-2538 | Added on Sunday, December 12, 2021 9:45:24 PM

“To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror; to learn irrefutably that you are mortal is to know the end of terror.”
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The Primal Hunter (Zogarth)
- Your Highlight on page 471 | Location 7222-7223 | Added on Monday, January 3, 2022 12:07:42 AM

To strive for progress is to keep moving forward ruthlessly.”
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A Practical Guide To Evil: Book 1 (erraticerrata)
- Your Highlight on page 58 | Location 880-880 | Added on Saturday, January 15, 2022 12:01:54 AM

“I hope you didn’t have to meditate under a waterfall to come up with that one.”
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A Practical Guide To Evil: Book 1 (erraticerrata)
- Your Highlight on page 66 | Location 1009-1010 | Added on Saturday, January 15, 2022 12:14:40 AM

“Fate is the coward’s way out, Catherine,” he spat out. “It is the denial of personal responsibility.
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A Practical Guide To Evil: Book 1 (erraticerrata)
- Your Highlight on page 78 | Location 1189-1190 | Added on Saturday, January 15, 2022 12:32:25 AM

“There’s only one choice in life, Squire,” my doppelganger said with a flash of teeth. “You can be someone who makes things happen, or someone things happen to.
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A Practical Guide To Evil: Book 1 (erraticerrata)
- Your Highlight on page 147 | Location 2241-2243 | Added on Thursday, January 20, 2022 9:41:48 PM

“Threats are useless unless you have previously committed the level of violence your are threatening to use. Make examples of the enemies you cannot control so those that you can will be cowed. This is the foundation of ruling.”
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A Practical Guide To Evil: Book 2 (erraticerrata)
- Your Highlight on page 107 | Location 1629-1630 | Added on Monday, January 31, 2022 11:08:30 PM

“Stab the kidney, loot the corpse,”
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A Practical Guide To Evil: Book 2 (erraticerrata)
- Your Highlight on page 344 | Location 5260-5261 | Added on Tuesday, February 8, 2022 11:36:13 PM

“Prayer and a sword gets better results than prayer alone.” – King Jehan the Wise
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Principles (Ray Dalio)
- Your Highlight on page 2 | Location 17-17 | Added on Friday, April 8, 2022 10:21:57 PM

I want you to think for yourself—to decide 1) what you want, 2) what is true and 3) what to do about it.
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Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (Eliezer Yudkowsky)
- Your Highlight on page 49 | Location 746-747 | Added on Wednesday, June 8, 2022 10:21:30 PM

no adult would lower themselves far enough to place themselves on level ground with a child and listen,
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Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (Eliezer Yudkowsky)
- Your Highlight on page 1037 | Location 15890-15891 | Added on Wednesday, July 13, 2022 9:59:27 PM

“Why does any kind of cynicism appeal to people? Because it seems like a mark of maturity, of sophistication, like you’ve seen everything and know better. Or because putting something down feels like pushing yourself up. Or
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Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (Eliezer Yudkowsky)
- Your Highlight on page 1202 | Location 18426-18427 | Added on Friday, July 15, 2022 9:58:39 PM

call it heroic responsibility, maybe,” Harry Potter said. “Not like the usual sort. It means that whatever happens, no matter what, it’s always your fault.
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Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (Eliezer Yudkowsky)
- Your Highlight on page 1441 | Location 22083-22084 | Added on Saturday, July 23, 2022 10:04:11 PM

“It’s not paranoia if they really are out to get you,”
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Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (Eliezer Yudkowsky)
- Your Highlight on page 1480 | Location 22686-22688 | Added on Sunday, July 24, 2022 8:59:32 PM

Critch’s theories about hedonics and how to train your inner pigeon and how small immediate positive and negative feedbacks secretly control most of what we actually do, and
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Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (Eliezer Yudkowsky)
- Your Highlight on page 1530 | Location 23454-23455 | Added on Sunday, July 24, 2022 10:35:27 PM

they just play roles. There’s a picture in your head of a stern disciplinarian and you do whatever that picture would do, whether or not it makes any sense.
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Child Psychology: A Very Short Introduction: A Very Short Introduction (Usha Goswami)
- Your Highlight on page 31 | Location 467-469 | Added on Thursday, August 4, 2022 9:50:11 PM

warmth and responsive contingency are the key to optimal developmental outcomes. ‘Responsive contingency’ simply means responding to the overtures of the child immediately,
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Foundation (Isaac Asimov)
- Your Highlight on page 84 | Location 1277-1277 | Added on Thursday, August 11, 2022 10:24:50 PM

It’s a worship of the past. It’s a deterioration -- a stagnation!”
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A Practical Guide To Evil: Book 1 (erraticerrata)
- Your Highlight on page 50 | Location 755-756 | Added on Thursday, August 18, 2022 9:57:40 PM

A regrettable lack of awareness and natural predisposition for insolence,
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A Practical Guide To Evil: Book 1 (erraticerrata)
- Your Highlight on page 322 | Location 4926-4927 | Added on Sunday, September 11, 2022 9:59:00 PM

“Are you going to do that thing where you give me cryptic advice that later comes in useful at a critical moment?”
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A Practical Guide To Evil: Book 1 (erraticerrata)
- Your Highlight on page 393 | Location 6020-6021 | Added on Tuesday, September 13, 2022 10:39:14 PM

“Oh Gods,” he gasped. “Juniper’s got a fortress and our answer is suicide goats.”
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A Practical Guide To Evil: Book 2 (erraticerrata)
- Your Highlight on page 69 | Location 1048-1049 | Added on Saturday, September 17, 2022 8:01:52 PM

“Whatever happened to the Lone in Lone Swordsman?” I griped. “This is unacceptable. Do you see Black prancing about in white robes? It’s called a Name, not a Suggestion.”
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A Practical Guide To Evil: Book 2 (erraticerrata)
- Your Highlight on page 240 | Location 3670-3672 | Added on Wednesday, September 21, 2022 9:56:50 PM

First the hero or heroine’s character was established, then they were presented with a problem. A catalyst ignited the struggle against that problem, and the hero’s fight changed them in some way. Through victory the resolution came, and the state of affairs for the future was established: the ever-famous happy ending,
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A Practical Guide To Evil: Book 2 (erraticerrata)
- Your Highlight on page 254 | Location 3885-3885 | Added on Thursday, September 22, 2022 9:30:39 PM

It’s not that I think I’ve been chosen, Hakram. I haven’t. I choose.”
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A Practical Guide To Evil: Book 2 (erraticerrata)
- Your Highlight on page 674 | Location 10329-10330 | Added on Thursday, October 6, 2022 10:47:59 PM

“Your Name is bullshit and so are you,”
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A Practical Guide To Evil: Book 2 (erraticerrata)
- Your Highlight on page 737 | Location 11287-11287 | Added on Friday, October 7, 2022 10:20:19 PM

Tremble, oh ye mighty, for a new age is upon you.”
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A Practical Guide To Evil: Book 2 (erraticerrata)
- Your Highlight on page 750 | Location 11496-11498 | Added on Friday, October 7, 2022 10:47:06 PM

“The first step is hardest, they said to her You will have to walk through fire-“ “It will burn away what you once were, And always devour whole a liar,”
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A Practical Guide To Evil: Book 3 (erraticerrata)
- Your Highlight on page 92 | Location 1405-1406 | Added on Friday, October 14, 2022 10:45:18 PM

In my experience, you could stab pretty much anything if you tried hard enough.
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A Practical Guide To Evil: Book 3 (erraticerrata)
- Your Highlight on page 891 | Location 13654-13657 | Added on Thursday, November 17, 2022 11:25:48 PM

“It think starts with asking why,” I said. “Why should I forgive? Why should I not kill? Why should I obey? And eventually you realize that there’s all these rules handed down to you and then you get to the real question – why shouldn’t I just do whatever the Hells I want?”
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Borne of Caution (Fuggmann)
- Your Highlight on page 1000 | Location 15327-15328 | Added on Thursday, December 29, 2022 12:02:29 AM

'Goodness me, inconsequential strangers might have inconsequential opinions. How terrible...'
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A Practical Guide To Evil: Book 4 (erraticerrata)
- Your Highlight on page 128 | Location 1957-1958 | Added on Monday, January 9, 2023 2:03:12 AM

“Suffering is the nature of human condition,” I said. “We are what we do with that. I choose to give it a purpose.”
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A Practical Guide To Evil: Book 4 (erraticerrata)
- Your Highlight on page 156 | Location 2387-2388 | Added on Monday, January 9, 2023 11:38:52 PM

Fate is the coward’s way out,” I murmured. “The abdication of personal responsibility.
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A Practical Guide To Evil: Book 4 (erraticerrata)
- Your Highlight on page 579 | Location 8866-8867 | Added on Wednesday, April 26, 2023 9:35:43 PM

Hesitation is never a virtue:
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A Practical Guide To Evil: Book 4 (erraticerrata)
- Your Highlight on page 779 | Location 11944-11945 | Added on Thursday, May 4, 2023 12:42:57 AM

“Lately Queen of Callow, though I’ve picked up a few other titles over the years.” “I greet you humbly, Lately Queen,” Ivah
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A Practical Guide To Evil: Book 4 (erraticerrata)
- Your Highlight on page 1146 | Location 17569-17569 | Added on Wednesday, May 24, 2023 10:08:32 PM

“We children of dew and lightning,” Indrani murmured. “Transient and terrible in our passing.”
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A Practical Guide To Evil: Book 4 (erraticerrata)
- Your Highlight on page 1273 | Location 19508-19508 | Added on Wednesday, May 31, 2023 12:03:13 AM

“We’re people, aren’t we?” I said. “Not beasts. We can learn. It’s just hard and unpleasant and never as clear-cut as we’d like.”
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