Nancy

“This is what fools people,” the philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre once observed. “A man is always a teller of stories. He lives surrounded by his stories and the stories of others, he sees everything that happens to him through them; and tries to live his life as if he were recounting them.”
― David Brooks, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

“Psychologist Jonathan Haidt says people don’t really communicate on social media so much as they perform for one another.”
― Morgan Housel, Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

“Just like evolution, the key is realizing that the more perfect you try to become, the more vulnerable you generally are.”
― Morgan Housel, Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

“In their quest for flawless results, research suggests that perfectionists tend to get three things wrong. One: they obsess about details that don’t matter. They’re so busy finding the right solution to tiny problems that they lack the discipline to find the right problems to solve. They can’t see the forest for the trees. Two: they avoid unfamiliar situations and difficult tasks that might lead to failure. That leaves them refining a narrow set of existing skills rather than working to develop new ones. Three: they berate themselves for making mistakes, which makes it harder to learn from them. They fail to realize that the purpose of reviewing your mistakes isn’t to shame your past self. It’s to educate your future self. If perfectionism were a medication, the label would alert us to common side effects.”
― Adam M. Grant, Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things