Emma soloviev

“The greatest achievement of the human brain is its ability to imagine objects and episodes that do not exist in the realm of the real, and it is this ability that allows us to think about the future. As one philosopher noted, the human brain is an “anticipation machine,” and “making future” is the most important thing it does.2”
― Daniel Gilbert, Stumbling on Happiness

“won’t”
― Dan Simmons, Hyperion

“When the pressure is on, you don’t rise to the occasion—you fall to your highest level of preparation.”
― Chris Voss

“In Descartes’ Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain,2 neuroscientist Antonio Damasio explained a groundbreaking discovery he made. Studying people who had damage in the part of the brain where emotions are generated, he found that they all had something peculiar in common: They couldn’t make decisions. They could describe what they should do in logical terms, but they found it impossible to make even the simplest choice. In other words, while we may use logic to reason ourselves toward a decision, the actual decision making is governed by emotion.”
― Chris Voss, Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It