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This was written by Viktor Frankl back in 1946. I had been seeing it listed in book recommendations from a couple thought leaders. I chanced upon a copy of it at one of what seemed like family-owned bookstores in Quezon city. 

It's one of those books where you wish you had read earlier in your life, and how much it would have guided you throughout. It's a truly fascinating book from Carol Dweck. Here she basically describes two mindsets a person can have in terms of intelligence; Fixed and Growth Mindset; and how it influences our daily lives, and how it impacts our work, sports, business, relationships and parenting. 

I'm in a really anxious state right now. Going to have a medical operation in the next few days. I dont know what's going to happen. May be too early. I do have a tendency of overthinking things. Now's not an exception.

"If not us who else. [...] It has to be you.  If you don't take the responsibility in your hands, [If]  you don't fight back [on] the things you don't like, then who else will.  It has to be us. " Nobody's going to do it for you. Sound bite from the Art of Charm podcast. The guest was Srdja Popovic  

Excerpt from the You made it Weird podcast with Pete Holmes. John Mulaney: I have this picture of Bobby Kennedy. He's sitting on a stairwell, it's from 1964. He's sitting on stairs in a suit, holding his speech. He's about to give a speech at the '64 Democratic convention. His brother, the president, was assassinated in '63. He's barely been seen. The new president, Linden Johnson, hates Bobby Kennedy. Doesn't want him to steal his thunder during the convention, so he pushes his speech time to a shitty time. Also has his room bugged to find out if he's talking about him. And didn't give him a green room, hence why Bobby Kennedy is sitting on the step.  So the photo is just him sitting there and I think about it a lot like..... You know, you can go through the worst thing in the world and then people can still treat you with great unkindness. But he didn't evaporate. He sat there, he waited, he's humiliated by the president, his b...

Grit. It's a fairly loose buzzword one usually hears in big business town-halls, or some kind of formal ceremonies. I chanced upon the book "Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance" by Angela Duckworth, at a local National Bookstore in one quiet Manila afternoon. My impulse kicked-in. I know of it. I had it listed in my books-to-buy list. Perhaps, the marketing worked. I've been seeing the term "Grit" and Angela Duckworth's name pop up in the couple months leading up to it, in articles, in podcasts, in videos etc.