4YON
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"As I pondered a pronoun change, I began to think of gender less as a scale and more as a landscape. Some people are born in the mountains, while others are born by the sea. Some people are happy to live in the place they were born, while others must make a journey to reach the climate in which they can flourish and grow. Between the ocean and the mountains is a wild forest. That is where I want to make my home."
it feels so weird to read haruki's works with a developed prefrontal cortex
like damn, am i even reading the same thing that i read a few years ago????
3.75/5
Informative and highly practical.
Cal got a little bit repetitive with his ideas as reaching the end of the book, but overall, this is still a good read.
"Everyone learns things the hard way at some time or another, and our brains take pictures so the learning stays with us. This is the basis of the saying "That's the lesson you'll never forget." It is a jarring - but efficient and often necessary - way to grow.(...)As we age, we feel less like leaves and more like trees. We have roots that ground us and sturdy trunks that may sway, but don't break, in the wind. The wind that blows by can be more serious. "You're fired!" is much scarier when you have a mortgage. The things we do wrong at work are no longer typos but may be losing a $500,000 account or releasing software that crashes the company website for a day. But older adults - and even twentysomethings who work at it - can be rooted in the confidence that problems can be solved, or at least survived."
“You can't know where you're going until you know where you are.”
(and have short attention span like me)
“When I tried to think whom I spent time with before I became friendly with Sensei, no one came to mind.I had been alone. I rode the bus alone. I walked around the city alone. And even when I was with Sensei now, I didn't feel any different from when I did these things on my own. It seemed, then, that it didn't really matter whether or not I was with Sensei, but the truth was, doing these things with him made me feel proper.”
