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A different study by Gloria Mark, professor of informatics at the University of California, Irvine—who I interviewed—observed how long on average an adult working in an office stays on one task. It was three minutes.
“Day by day, page by page, you uncover the answers that are already inside of you, and you begin to transform.”
― The Book of Alchemy: A Creative Practice for an Inspired Life
― The Book of Alchemy: A Creative Practice for an Inspired Life
“There was no changing Mark. Or Jinx, or Shyanne, or how the world worked. They were like chess pieces: they moved how they moved. If you wanted to win, you couldn’t dwell on how you wished they’d move or how it’d be fairer if they moved a different way. You had to adapt.”
― Margo's Got Money Troubles
― Margo's Got Money Troubles
“Online dating is for the brave. It’s increasingly hard to meet people in real life and those who take matters into their own hands—who pay a monthly fee for the chance to edge closer to love, who fill out an embarrassing profile saying they’re looking for a special someone to hold hands with in the supermarket—are towering romantic heroes.”
― Everything I Know About Love
― Everything I Know About Love
“In search of a new way in, I sought out the voices of other writers who had famously kept journals, like Sylvia Plath, Susan Sontag, and Isabelle Eberhardt, before cracking open my own journal each morning.”
― The Book of Alchemy: A Creative Practice for an Inspired Life
― The Book of Alchemy: A Creative Practice for an Inspired Life
“ABOUT THE AUTHOR Andy Weir built a career as a software engineer until the success of his first published novel, The Martian, allowed him to live out his dream of writing full-time. He is a lifelong space nerd and a devoted hobbyist of subjects such as relativistic physics, orbital mechanics, and the history of manned spaceflight. He also mixes a mean cocktail. He lives in California.”
― Project Hail Mary
― Project Hail Mary
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