PO BRONSON QUOTES

American journalist & author (1964- )

I used to want to change the world. Now I'm open to letting it change me.

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There is nothing more genuine than breaking away from the chorus to learn the sound of your own voice.

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Rather than improving trust, crypto has tried to minimize the need for trust. To create a system that requires no trust. To build a world that will still function even when all trust is eroded.

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I'm convinced that business success in the future starts with the question, What should I do with my life? Yes, that's right.... People don't succeed by migrating to a "hot" industry (one word: dotcom) or by adopting a particular career-guiding mantra (remember "horizontal careers"?). They thrive by focusing on the question of who they really are--and connecting that to work that they truly love (and, in so doing, unleashing a productive and creative power that they never imagined).

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Might our culture-wide perception of what it means to be a teenager be unwittingly skewed by the fact they don't get enough sleep?

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We have mixed feelings about the seductive notion of destiny. There's a persistent tension between wanting our life's purpose to be revealed to us by some higher power and wanting to scrap and fight for it against all odds--to earn it without help. We think about destiny sort of like how we feel about inheritance--we covet its fruit but it's sweeter if we earned it ourselves.

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When we changed the channel from violent television to tamer fare, kids just ended up learning the advanced skills of clique formation, friendship withdrawal, and the art of the insult.

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Vulnerability is the only authentic state. Being vulnerable means being open, for wounding, but also for pleasure.

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Researchers have found that the more people focus on their odds of winning, the less likely they'll go for it. But the more they focus on what they'll win if they succeed, the more likely they'll go for it.

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It's not AI we have to fear. I'm aware there's a vague sense of chaos in the world. But I don't think AI created that. People did. Sowing chaos was just their game plan. AI is just good at finding hidden patterns. And it surfaced patterns we humans had kept hidden. AI is just a mirror. It showed in the mirror who we really were. It didn't make people hate. It found the hate we were trying to hide. It didn't manipulate people into being mean. Their mean streak was simmering all along.

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The biggest mistake we make is to think we have all the time in the world.

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From our deepest wounds come our greatest gifts.

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But I'd rather help than watch. I'd rather have a heart than a mind. I'd rather expose too much than too little. I'd rather say hello to strangers than be afraid of them. I would rather know all this about myself than have more money than I need. I'd rather have something to love than a way to impress you.

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It's not easy. It's not supposed to be easy. Most people make mistakes. Most people have to learn the hardest lessons more than once.

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Children's emotional well-being and security are more affected by the relationship between the parents than by the direct relationship between the parent and child.

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The randomness of cancer is often very hard to accept.

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The moral is to not set yourself goals which don't leave you any freedom to maneuver.

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I used to use business to make money. But I've learned that business is a tool. You can use it to support what you believe in.

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When you act, you learn. That kind of wisdom beats the knowledge you read in a book, every time. To really seek answers, you need to act. To really develop your mind, run more experiments.

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I learned that it was in hard times that people usually changed the course of their life; in good times, they frequently only talked about change. Hard times forced them to overcome the doubts that normally gave them pause. It surprised me how often we hold ourselves back until we have no choice.

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