Words to Start the Week (Nov. 4, 2024)
Nuggets from past notes
“The social fabric that is so vital to our sense of trust and goodwill is built on the moral sentiments that power diminishes–empathy, compassion, gratitude, and elevation.”
– Dacher Keltner (The Power Paradox)
“An intelligence is the ability to solve problems, or to create products, that are valued within one or more cultural settings–a definition that says nothing about either the sources of these abilities or the proper means of “testing” them.”
– Howard Gardner (Frames of Mind)
“You could say that entrepreneurship often begins in frustrated wonderment.”
– Reid Hoffman (The Startup of You)
“Whoever be the individuals that compose a crowd, however like or unlike be their mode of life, their occupations, their character, or their intelligence, the fact that they have been transformed into a crowd puts them in possession of a sort of collective mind which makes them feel, think, and act in a manner quite different from that in which each individual of them would feel, think, and act were he in a state of isolation.”
– Gustave Le Bon (The Crowd)
“An intelligent life is all about such emotional positioning to eliminate the sting of harm, which as we saw is done by mentally writing off belongings so one does not feel any pain from losses. The volatility of the world no longer affects you negatively”
– Nassim Taleb (Antifragile)