3-2-1: Innovative Thinking, the Trap of Self-Pity, and How to Spend Your Time - [email protected] - Gmail
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”For those who expect everything, there are many curses. For those who appreciate everything, there are many blessings.”
Author Cheryl Strayed on the trap of self-pity: “Nobody’s going to do your life for you. You have to do it yourself, whether you’re rich or poor, out of money or raking it in, the beneficiary of ridiculous fortune or terrible injustice. And you have to do it no matter what is true. No matter what is hard. No matter what unjust, sad, sucky things befall you. Self-pity is a dead-end road. You make the choice to drive down it. It’s up to you to decide to stay parked there or to turn around and drive out.”
Biologist and Nobel Prize winner Sydney Brenner on innovative thinking: “I strongly believe that the only way to encourage innovation is to give it to the young. The young have a great advantage in that they are ignorant. Because I think ignorance in science is very important. If you’re like me and you know too much you can’t try new things. I always work in fields of which I’m totally ignorant.”