I ran out of books to read at the school library and the neighborhood library,” Musk said. “This is maybe the third or fourth grade. I tried to convince the librarian to order books for me. So then, I started to read the Encyclopaedia Britannica.
Elon Musk
Ashlee Vance
Albert Einstein was good at physics, and he was really good at his daily post-lunch twenty-minute snooze.
The Little Book of Talent
Daniel Coyle
Seiden followed up on 515 people who had tried to jump from the bridge between 1937 and 1971, but had been unexpectedly restrained. Just 25 of those 515 persisted in killing themselves some other way. Overwhelmingly, the people who want to jump off the Golden Gate Bridge at a given moment want to jump off the Golden Gate Bridge only at that given moment.
Talking to Strangers
Malcolm Gladwell
The next time you are delayed or something does not go your way, try being amused by the situation rather than getting angry or outraged.
The Book of Joy
Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu, and Douglas Carlton Abrams
In the end, people don’t view their life as merely the average of all of its moments—which, after all, is mostly nothing much plus some sleep. For human beings, life is meaningful because it is a story. A story has a sense of a whole, and its arc is determined by the significant moments, the ones where something happens.
Being Mortal
Atul Gawande