"This technique of experience engineering is more commonly called anchoring. A less-desirable option creates a mental anchor, making the best alternative seem more acceptable."
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"Le désir de l’homme se porte vers les femmes, mais le désir des femmes, lui, se porte sur le désir de l’homme."
Madame de Staël
"Yeah, save money whenever possible, and use all the resources you can," he said.
"And don't die. That's basically my motto."
Eric Simons
"We’re reciprocity machines."
Mark Suster
'The marginal cost of doing something wrong “just this once” always seems alluringly low. It suckers you in, and you don’t ever look at where that path ultimately is headed and at the full costs that the choice entails. Justification for infidelity and dishonesty in all their manifestations lies in the marginal cost economics of “just this once.”'
Clayton M. Christensen
"It occurred to me he might be one of those rare people who make you feel as at home in his mind as you are in your own."
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"I'd started wondering if there was someone out there who embodies not your worst self, but your freest one—a person who encapsulates everything you've ever dreamed of becoming. Let's call him your Cooler Self.
All those dreams that got lost along the way, the ones that were casualties of chance or duty or cowardice: There's a "you" out there—a mountain climber or war photographer or race-car driver—who brought them to fruition."
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"Find what you love and let it kill you."
Charles Bukowski
