3-2-1: A Mindset That Can Take You Far in Life, Aging Well, and the Value of Darkness

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• Author: James Clear
• Full Title: 3-2-1: A Mindset That Can Take You Far in Life, Aging Well, and the Value of Darkness

Highlights

A mindset that can take you far in life: What I want doesn’t exist, so I’ll create it. (View Highlight) - Note: I tweak this slightly to, if it doesn’t exist I will create it

Anthropologist Ashley Montagu on aging well: “The goal of life is to die young — as late as possible!” (View Highlight)

Novelist Jeanette Winterson on the value of darkness: “I have noticed that when all the lights are on, people tend to talk about what they are doing — their outer lives. Sitting round in candlelight or firelight, people start to talk about how they are feeling – their inner lives. They speak subjectively, they argue less, there are longer pauses. (View Highlight)

To sit alone without any electric light is curiously creative. I have my best ideas at dawn or at nightfall, but not if I switch on the lights — then I start thinking about projects, deadlines, demands, and the shadows and shapes of the house become objects, not suggestions, things that need to done, not a background to thought.” (View Highlight)