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Losing

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If you generally doubt people’s trustworthiness, you aren’t likely to take risks on cooperating with or even knowing others further. This is why trust, once lost, is so hard to rebuild.

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If you are trusting, you win some encounters and lose others, but in the long-term, you gain much more than you would from distrusting, which results in lost opportunities… – Russell Hardin

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As we plunge into a new world of infinitely connectible and accessible information, we risk losing our means and ability to go beneath the surface, to think deeply.

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As you grow, you can’t lose the very thing that gave you the opportunity to grow.

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Cumulative [sleep] losses during the week add up to cumulative deficits during the weekend – and, if not paid for, that sleep debt will be carried into the next week.

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Loss of sleep hurts attention, executive function, working memory, mood, quantitative skills, logical reasoning, and even motor dexterity.

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What separates the winners and losers in innovation is who masters the drudgery.

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Loss does not cure loss. Rather than closure, revenge gives deceptive satisfaction that can’t free us from the angry, aching place we inhabit.

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…we focus on what we may lose, rather than what we may gain.

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As soon as we begin thinking about giving up our valued possessions, we are already mourning the loss.

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