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What Is the What

by Dave Eggers

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Jul 26, 2011 11:37AM

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“The prevailing view is that geniuses are largely built, not born.”
― David Brooks, The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources Of Love, Character, And Achievement

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“Geoffrey Miller notes that most adults have a vocabulary of about sixty thousand words. To build that vocabulary, children must learn ten to twenty words a day between the ages of eighteen months and eighteen years. And yet the most frequent one hundred words account for 60 percent of all conversations. The most common four thousand words account for 98 percent of conversations. Why do humans bother knowing”
― David Brooks, The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources Of Love, Character, And Achievement

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“As seminary students Jim and friends examined the Bible to find every reference to the poor — and they found more than two thousand. In fact, they concluded one of every sixteen verses was about the poor. Then a zealous friend decided to cut out every Bible verse about the poor to see what the Bible would look like. As he tells the story, “that old Bible literally was in shreds. It wouldn’t hold together. It was a Bible full of holes.”
― Scot McKnight, One.Life: Jesus Calls, We Follow

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“First, they had good character. They were energetic, honest, and dependable. They were persistent after setbacks and acknowledged their mistakes.”
― David Brooks, The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources Of Love, Character, And Achievement

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“cultivation of the hard skills, while failing to develop the moral and emotional faculties down below. Children are coached on how to jump through a thousand scholastic hoops. Yet by far the most important decisions they will make are about whom to marry and whom to befriend, what to love and what to despise, and how to control impulses. On these matters, they are almost entirely on their own. We are good at talking about material incentives, but bad about talking about emotions and intuitions. We are good at teaching technical skills, but when it comes to the most important things, like character, we have almost nothing to say.”
― David Brooks, The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources Of Love, Character, And Achievement

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