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It wasn’t just about building up his physical strength. He was also building up his mental endurance. Tell someone to do thirty reps of push-ups or run five miles and they’re already anticipating the finish line. It’s well defined. You know
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“All of us have failed to match our dream of perfection. I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible. If I could write all my work again, I'm convinced I could do it better. This is the healthiest condition for an artist. That's why he keeps working, trying again: he believes each time that this time he will do it, bring it off. Of course he won't.”
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“You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself...the height of a man's success is gauged by his self-mastery; the depth of his failure by his self-abandonment. ...And this law is the expression of eternal justice. He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others.”
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“a system must consist of three kinds of things: elements, interconnections, and a function or purpose.”
― Thinking in Systems: A Primer
― Thinking in Systems: A Primer
“Remember, always, that everything you know, and everything everyone knows, is only a model. Get your model out there where it can be viewed. Invite others to challenge your assumptions and add their own.”
― Thinking In Systems: A Primer
― Thinking In Systems: A Primer
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