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…the cerebellum can’t run the whole show. Nor would you want it to. You wouldn’t want to live your life on automatic pilot. Conscious, deliberate choice is essential.
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049 |
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From all this busyness, another of the many paradoxes of modern life emerges: The faster we go, the more we take on, and the more we take on, the more there is for us to do.
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061 |
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…the game is the same – getting on in life, pursuing happiness, realizing our dreams, and helping others to do the same – but the way it’s played is new.
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069 |
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In modern life, your time and attention are more vulnerable to theft than ever before.
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073 |
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The overloaded brain and the overloaded life have become the norm. A person has to be quite deliberate to avoid overload.
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105 |
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Modern life is neither linear nor circular. Its patterns are so difficult to decipher that it is causing more and more intelligent people to resort to simplistic, absolute conclusions just to feel the comfort of being certain, no matter if the certainty is a mirage.
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112 |
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These days a person has to both get to the point fast and keep the point simple, no matter how complex it is. The problem is that life has never been more complex.
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115 |
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Instead of thoughtful lives they savor, people are in danger of living superficial, sound-bite lives they barely notice, let alone savor.
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116 |
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…we so hate to wait that we risk our lives to avoid it. Waiting is painful. Slow hurts.
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123 |
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…the broader meaning of play is an activity that can withstand… modern life; it is an activity that lifts a person out of the mundane into the most meaningful and productive realm.
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133 |
