Neil Pasricha

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“We must make an effort to decolonize our minds.”

"Writing is a way of recovering our past."

“Religion is the most harmless way of accessing a mind of another human being.”

“Writing is just an extension of living.”

I sat down in Nairobi with award-winning Kenyan novelist Peter Kimani to talk normalizing abnormalities, decolonization, writing habits, whitewashing conservation, and much more. Here are some of my favourite quotes.

Ten most important two-letter words?

If it is to be it is up to me.

Our brain scans the world for problems and sometimes that’s all we see.

Happiness is a choice.

And it's hard work.

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“If I were a doctor, I’d prescribe books. They can be just as powerful as drugs.” Shane Parrish

“The creative adult is the child who has survived.”—Ursula K. Le Guin

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“Because when you go quiet, you go inside. And when you go inside, you reckon. You reckon with the big stuff.”

“I feel like curiosity is even more urgently needed today because it feels to me like people have retreated into echo chambers and silos and little patches where they don't need to be challenged or questioned.”

“I love when a writer identifies something that you know from your own life, you know to be true, but you've never articulated it.”

I sat down with Carl Honoré, author of 'In Praise of Slowness', to talk about how to live a calmer, slower, richer life. Here are some of my favourite quotes.

In life we all have a tendency to lacquer stories onto facts.

And often, if you’re like me, you don’t tell yourself very nice ones.

Learn to see the story you’re telling yourself.

And then start telling yourself a better one.

What story are you telling yourself?

“I failed biology” is a fact.

“I failed my parents” is a story.

“I’m an alcoholic” is a fact.

“Nobody trusts me” is a story.

“I have a pot belly” is a fact.

“Nobody will love me” is a story.

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“Empathy is not relating to an experience, it’s connecting to what someone is feeling about an experience.”―Brené Brown

“The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts”—Marcus Auerelius

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"The only thing a work of fiction has to do, and it is mandatory, is just make you want to keep reading."—Robin Sloan

"Reading is the empire of light."—Robin Sloan

"Words on the page are inert until activated by the imaginative mind of a reader."—Robin Sloan

I just sat down with novelist Robin Sloan ('Mr Penumbra's 24 Hour Bookstore', 'Moonbound'!) and talked AI ethics, olive oil, myths, and, of course, formative books… here are a few of my favorite quotes:

We’re all full of self-judgments.

Sometimes we forget that we are all trying, trying, trying.

We are all getting better.

Be easier on yourself.

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