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Two of my tests for a book are whether I remember it a month or two after I have read it, and whether it affects my view of the world.
Everything in life worth achieving requires practice. In fact, life itself is nothing more than one long practice session, an endless effort of refining our motions. When the proper mechanics of practicing are understood, the task of learning something new becomes a stress-free experience of joy and calmness,
it’s needed so we can take advantage of all the opportunities we’re given to add value to our world in a sustainable, self-nurturing way.
If you had the freedom to decide what to do, you also had the responsibility to make good choices, given your priorities.
World-class rower Craig Lambert has described how it feels in Mind Over Water (Houghton Mifflin, 1998): Rowers have a word for this frictionless state: swing. . . . Recall the pure joy of riding on a backyard swing: an easy cycle of motion, the momentum coming from the swing itself. The swing carries us; we do not force it. We pump our legs to drive our arc higher, but gravity does most of the work. We are not so much swinging as being swung. The boat swings you. The shell wants to move fast: Speed sings in its lines and nature. Our job is simply to work with the shell, to stop holding it back
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Your ability to generate power is directly proportional to your ability to relax.
Anything that causes you to overreact or underreact can control you, and often does.
Hopefully this book will inspire you to raise the bar about how much pressure you will allow yourself to tolerate,
Vision is not enough; it must be combined with venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps; we must step up the stairs. —Václav Havel
There is usually an inverse relationship between how much something is on your mind and how much it’s getting done.
