★★★★☆ | Philosophy | Print | Own | StoryGraph | Goodreads
A quirky book full of dense wisdom. Thinking in such extremes is interesting. The ending was anti-climactic (and weird).
Highlights
We overestimate what we can do in one year. We underestimate what we can do in ten years.
One of the best feelings in life is to meet someone who grew up in an opposite culture but has your same humor, thoughts, or taste.
To enjoy your past is to live twice.
You have to remember your past to see your trajectory. You use your past to make your future.
Random stuff happens. All you can control is your response.
Technology advances faster than wisdom.
Humor is the spirit of life — a sign of a healthy, vibrant mind and soul.
Only dead fish go with the flow.
Imagine the different aspects of your life as the spokes in a wheel: health, wealth, intellectual, emotional, spiritual, or however you divide it. If any of these are lacking, it makes a lopsided, wobbly wheel, causing you to crash.
The world’s greatest achievements were squeezed into existence by deadlines.