A THREAD on insightful ideas from the book "Grit: The Power of Passion & Perseverance" by @angeladuckw:
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Grit is about working on something you care about so much that you're willing to stay loyal to it.
It's doing what you love, but not just falling in love―staying in love.
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Grit grows as we figure out our life philosophy, learn to dust ourselves off after rejection and disappointment, and learn to tell the difference between low-level goals that should be abandoned quickly and higher-level goals that demand more tenacity...
...The maturation story is that we develop the capacity for long-term passion and perseverance as we get older.
A THREAD on insightful timeless ideas by Max Planck, which gives a glimpse of the mind of this genius:
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An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents.
What does happen is that the opponents gradually die out.
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Scientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of it without any practical purpose whatsoever in view.
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Experiment is the only means of knowledge at our disposal.
Everything else is poetry, imagination.
An experiment is a question which science poses to nature, and a measurement is a recording of nature's answer.
The more a man knows, the more willing he is to learn.
The less a man knows, the more positive he is that he knows everything.
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This is my doctrine: Give every other human being every right you claim for yourself. Keep your mind open to the influences of nature. Receive new thoughts with hospitality. Let us advance.
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In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.
A THREAD on key ideas from the book "How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big" by @ScottAdamsSays:
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A smarter approach is to think of learning as a system in which you continually expose yourself to new topics, primarily the ones you find interesting.
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When you can release on your ego long enough to view your perceptions as incomplete or misleading, it gives you the freedom to imagine new and potentially more useful ways of looking at the world.
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Free yourself from the shackles of an oppressive reality.
What’s real to you is what you imagine and what you feel.
If you manage your illusions wisely, you might get what you want, but you won’t necessarily understand why it worked.
A THREAD on inspiring and thought provoking ideas by James Baldwin:
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Freedom is not something that anybody can be given.
Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.
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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.
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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.