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“You are living a “don’t trouble trouble ‘til trouble troubles you” life with the one who was once your best friend.”
― Instruments in the Redeemer's Hands: People in Need of Change Helping People in Need of Change
― Instruments in the Redeemer's Hands: People in Need of Change Helping People in Need of Change
“While self-flagellation seems motivating—especially to Americans, whose mental models of motivation often begin with howling, red-faced, vein-popping football coaches—it often produces helplessness. Self-compassion, by contrast, prompts people to confront their difficulties head-on and take responsibility for them, researchers have found.”
― The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward
― The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward
“The idea that we may never reach a state of perfect racial equality—a perfect racial equilibrium—is not cause for alarm. What is concerning is the real possibility that we, as a society, will choose not to care.”
― The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
― The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
“A racist is someone who is supporting a racist policy by their actions or inaction or expressing a racist idea. An antiracist is someone who is supporting an antiracist policy by their actions or expressing an antiracist idea.”
― How to Be an Antiracist
― How to Be an Antiracist
“Self-criticism can sometimes motivate our performance when we criticize ourselves for particular actions rather than for deep-seated tendencies. But unless carefully managed and contained, self-criticism can become a form of inner-directed virtue signaling. It projects toughness and ambition, but often leads to rumination and hopelessness instead of productive action.”
― The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward
― The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward
Will’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Will’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
686 books
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24 friends
270 books
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58 friends
463 books
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104 friends
83 books
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146 friends
333 books
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51 friends
1,758 books
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80 friends
1,656 books
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170 friends
396 books
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51 friends
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