Mindful Startups Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Mindful Startups

Since we were children, we’ve strengthened the habit of escape, choosing fantasy over reality. Unfortunately, we get comfort from leaving, from being lost in our thoughts, worries, & plans. It gives a sense of false security & we enjoy it. -Pema Chodron, _Taking the Leap_

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Your identity emerges out of your habits. You are not born with preset beliefs. Every belief, including those about yourself, is learned and conditioned through experience. James Clear, _Atomic Habits_

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The idea that meditation is about making the mind go blank is a complete misunderstanding of meditation. Jon Kabat-Zinn, _Coming to Our Senses_

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Change is hard because people wear themselves out. And that's the second surprise about change: What looks like laziness is often exhaustion. -Chip Heath and Dan Heath, _Switch_

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History says, Don't hope On this side of the grave. But then, once in a lifetime The longed-for tidal wave Of justice can rise up, And hope and history rhyme. -Seamus Heaney, "The Cure at Troy"

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Beasts avoid the dangers which they see, and when they have escaped them are free from care; but we men torment ourselves over that which is to come as well as over that which is past. Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Letters From a Stoic

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Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom. -Viktor Frankl, _Man’s Search For Meaning_

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Failure can be a lousy teacher, because it seduces smart people into thinking their decisions were terrible when sometimes they just reflect the unforgiving realities of risk. -Morgan Housel, _The Psychology of Money_

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The tricky part of illness is, as u go thru it, your values r constantly changing. U try to figure out what matters, & then u keep figuring it out. It felt like someone had taken away my credit card & I was having to learn how to budget. -Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

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It is fashionable to look at depression as a modern complaint…a gross error, which…psychiatric history serves to clarify. It is also fashionable to think of [it] as …middle-class & fairly consistent in its manifestations.This is not true." Andrew Solomon, _The Noonday Demon_

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