It's not about how hard you swing your bat.
It's about swinging over and over again till you learn to hit it out of the park.
Consistency gets you places hard work doesn't.
Things I know at 28
I wish I understood when I was 18:
It's not about how hard you swing your bat.
It's about swinging over and over again till you learn to hit it out of the park.
Consistency gets you places hard work doesn't.
Too many people never try hard things because they think confidence is a precondition when, in reality, it's a reward.
Successful and unsuccessful people have the same goals.
You never rise to the level of your goals. You always fall to the level of your habits.
Goals are just dreams. Habits make them a reality.
h/t @JamesClear
Let's face it ― most of us would rather be wrong with the crowd than be right alone.
Learning to overcome your constant need for social approval is the first step to growth.
Take ownership of your life.
Never complain. Never blame others.
Everything you are thinking and feeling is your responsibility.
Pros learn to be happy despite everything that's going wrong in their lives.
Having 5 friends who love you to death is better than having 50 who sort of like you.
1. Pick people who enjoy spending time on the same things as you.
Otherwise spending time together is going to feel like a chore after a while.
2. Opposites attract but they don't last.
Find someone that aligns with you on the important stuff.
Instead, find someone who multiplies you and your strengths.
Think of all the people go through a bad breakup and develop trust and commitment issues for the rest of their lives.
Don't let temporary lessons become your permanent reality.
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Other insinuations and suggestions in the review seem wildly off the mark, distorted, or inappropriate-- for example, that the book is clickbaity (it is scholarly) or conservative (hardly) or connected to the events at the Capitol (give me a break). 3/x
The core question: in what sense is classics inherently racist? Classics is old. On Adler's account, it begins in ancient Rome and is revived in the Renaissance. Slavery (Christiansen's primary concern) is also very old. Let's say classics is an education for slaveowners. 4/x
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As someone\u2019s who\u2019s read the book, this review strikes me as tremendously unfair. It mostly faults Adler for not writing the book the reviewer wishes he had! https://t.co/pqpt5Ziivj
— Teresa M. Bejan (@tmbejan) January 12, 2021
The meat of the criticism is that the history Adler gives is insufficiently critical. Adler describes a few figures who had a great influence on how the modern US university was formed. It's certainly critical: it focuses on the social Darwinism of these figures. 2/x
Other insinuations and suggestions in the review seem wildly off the mark, distorted, or inappropriate-- for example, that the book is clickbaity (it is scholarly) or conservative (hardly) or connected to the events at the Capitol (give me a break). 3/x
The core question: in what sense is classics inherently racist? Classics is old. On Adler's account, it begins in ancient Rome and is revived in the Renaissance. Slavery (Christiansen's primary concern) is also very old. Let's say classics is an education for slaveowners. 4/x
It's worth remembering that literacy itself is elite throughout most of this history. Literacy is, then, also the education of slaveowners. We can honor oral and musical traditions without denying that literacy is, generally, good. 5/x
