“Make the present moment your friend rather than your enemy. Because many people live habitually as if the present moment were an obstacle that they need to overcome in order to get to the next moment. And imagine living your whole life like that, where always this moment is never quite right, not good enough because you need to get to the next one. That is continuous stress.”
10% Happier
Dan Harris
In a controlled experiment, psychologist R. A. Vandell proved that mental practice in throwing darts at a target, wherein the person sits for a period each day in front of the target and imagines throwing darts at it, improves aim as much as actually throwing darts.
Psycho-Cybernetics
Maxwell Maltz
Reading isn’t important because it helps to get you a job. It’s important because it gives you room to exist beyond the reality you’re given. It is how humans merge. How minds connect. Dreams. Empathy. Understanding. Escape.
Notes on a Nervous Planet
Matt Haig
Musk had to lean on friends just to try to make payroll from week to week, as he negotiated with investors. He sent impassioned pleas to anyone he could think of who might be able to spare some money.
Elon Musk
Ashlee Vance
You, and the chair you sit on (the table you eat off, the solid rock you stubbed your toe on) consist almost entirely of empty space. You cannot be serious! But it’s true. All matter consists of atoms, and every atom consists of a tiny nucleus orbited (for want of a better word, although it’s a bit misleading) by a cloud of far tinier electrons. Between them – nothing but empty space.
Outgrowing God
Richard Dawkins