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Quote from Modern Love About Recalibrating the Universe When Anything Bad Happens

    “Whenever anything bad happens, you should try and recalibrate the universe or whatever you want to call it with its opposite.“

    Yasmine, Modern Love

    Beyond the Quote (255/365)

    Spoilers ahead. In the final episode of Modern Love, Season 1, we are shown a scene of a young man, Rob, who gets stood up at a café. Disheartened and upset, he goes to leave the café and (appropriately enough) walks out into the rain. He slowly pulls back to shield under the café’s awning as an attractive blond women, Yasmine, runs to shield on the other side.

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      “You could try to pound your head against the wall and think of original ideas or you can cheat by reading them in books.”

      Patrick Collison

        “The key—if you want to build habits that last—is to join a group where the desired behavior is the normal behavior.”

        James Clear, Blog

          “It’s better to do less than you hoped than nothing at all. No zero days.”

          James Clear, Blog

            “Build before you have to. Build knowledge before you have to. Build strength before you have to. Build an emergency fund before you have to. Let internal pressure drive you today, so you can handle external pressure tomorrow.”

            James Clear, Blog

              “If you can find love in a supermarket early in the morning, you know you can trust it.”

              Lexi, Modern Love

              Save Yourself. Because Even The Best Doctors, Teachers, Gurus, Mentors, and Trainers Can’t

                Save Yourself.

                Excerpt: Inspired by a quote from Naval Ravikant, this post is about taking responsibility for your own life and depending less on others to do the “saving” for you. Doctors won’t make you healthy. Teachers won’t make you smart. Mentors won’t make you rich. It’s all up to YOU. Save yourself.

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                  “Optimism is usually defined as a belief that things will go well. But that’s incomplete. Sensible optimism is a belief that the odds are in your favor, and over time things will balance out to a good outcome even if what happens in between is filled with misery. And in fact you know it will be filled with misery. You can be optimistic that the long-term growth trajectory is up and to the right, but equally sure that the road between now and then is filled with landmines, and always will be. Those two things are not mutually exclusive.”

                  Morgan Housel, The Psychology of Money

                  Quote from The New Mutants Movie on the Two Bears Inside (and How To Control The Evil Bear In You)

                    Quote from The New Mutants Movie on the Two Bears Inside and How To Control The Evil Bear In You

                    Excerpt: ‘Inside every person there are two bears, forever locked in combat for your soul. One bear is all things good, compassion, love, trust. The other is all things evil, fear, shame, and self-destruction.’ — This quote from The New Mutants Movie lays the foundation for a deeper discussion about what’s going on inside of ourselves. Enjoy!

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                    Stephen Covey Quote on Productivity and How Momentum Can Help You Get More Done

                      “If you want to get something done, give it to someone busy.”

                      Stephen Covey

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                      But, why wouldn’t you give it to someone who isn’t busy? Because the Laws of Physics as they apply to motion, apply to people-in-motion, too. It’s easier to keep a body in motion than it is to get a body into motion that is at rest. The same is true for us. People who are in motion not only get more done, but they have an easier time getting more done than some might have in trying to do less. Why? Because a body at rest has a harder time getting started.

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