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...It's more important than ever that we find new ways to cultivate curiosity - because our careers, our happiness, and our children's…
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Confronting the worst-case scenario saps it of much of its anxiety-inducing power. Happiness reached via positive thinking can be fleeting and brittle,…
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Who says you need to wait until you 'feel like' doing something in order to start doing it? The problem, from this…
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True security lies in the unrestrained embrace of insecurity - in the recognition that we never really stand on solid ground, and…
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The effort to feel happy is often precisely the thing that makes us miserable. And that it is out constant efforts to…
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Ask yourself whether you are happy', observed the philosopher John Stuart Mill, 'and you cease to be so.' At best, it would…
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Reassurance can actually exacerbate anxiety: when you reassure your friend that the worst-case scenario he fears probably won't occur, you inadvertently reinforce…
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The routines of almost all famous writers, from Charles Darwin to John Grisham, similarly emphasise specific starting times, or number of hours…
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Uncertainty is where things happen. It is where the opportunities - for success, for happiness, for really living - are waiting.
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The effort to try to feel happy is often precisely the thing that makes us miserable,
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It is illuminating to note, here, how the daily rituals and working routines of prolific authors and artists - people who really…
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He knew that we gave constant lip service to the dictates of safety and howled like Christians condemned to the arena if…
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It's time for those of us who have a voice to speak out for life, for love and for justice using the…
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We go through our careers and things happen to us. Those experiences made me what I am.
— Thomas Keller
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There is a flickering spark in us all which, if struck at just the right age...can light the rest of our lives,…
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I ultimately realized we had gotten together for the music. It was such a huge thing in our lives. We were at…
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I say from my experience that, you know, I have to do my career, and, you know with us, our careers come…
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Our careers aren't paths so much as landscapes that are navigated. We're free agents, entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs -- each with our own unique…
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We haven't been on the same page in years. It is what it is. Sometimes that match burns out. So, no, I…
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It's a very special generation, because during our careers the computer entered chess. So we know how to play without computers, which…
— Vassily Ivanchuk
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...It's more important than ever that we find new ways to cultivate curiosity - because our careers, our happiness, and our children's…
— Oliver Burkeman
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I know at the beginning of our careers, my wife and I were gut wrenchingly competitive.
— Barry Mann
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And even though we don't have the professional relationship anymore, the love and friendship we have for each other will remain. He…
— Gustavo Kuerten
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