Otis  Chandler
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David  Brooks
“At the moment when you are most confused about what you should do with your life, the smartest bet is to do what millions of men and women have done through history. Pick yourself up and go out alone into the wilderness.”
David Brooks, The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life

David  Brooks
“People who are left naked and alone by radical individualism do what their genes and the ancient history of their species tell them to do: They revert to tribe. Individualism, taken too far, leads to tribalism.”
David Brooks, The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life

Luke Burgis
“Third, I went from craving classical wisdom to consuming memes and tweets and tech news—which led to my imitating ideas without knowing it. I knew more about what blogger Gary Vaynerchuk had to say about happiness than Aristotle.”
Luke Burgis, Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life

James Nestor
“Nasal breathing alone can boost nitric oxide sixfold, which is one of the reasons we can absorb about 18 percent more oxygen than by just breathing through the mouth. Mouth taping, Burhenne said, helped a five-year-old patient of his overcome ADHD, a condition directly attributed to breathing difficulties during sleep.”
James Nestor, Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art

James Surowiecki
“Collective decisions are most likely to be good ones when they're made by people with diverse opinions reaching independent conclusions, relying primarily on their private information.”
James Surowiecki, The Wisdom of Crowds

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