Our sweet tooth is an evolved instinctual preference for high-energy foods. It wasn’t designed for chocolate cake. Chocolate cake is a supernormal stimulus…
— Dan Dennett
Nov 20
The dozens of excuses that your mind fabricates when you’re tired or short on time are ignored. You press on because you have set a goal, and falling short of your goals is as habit forming as everything else you do in your life. You realise that giving in to your excuses becomes easier the more you allow it, and that your resolve strengthens each time you don’t.
— Mark Lauren
Nov 06
Tony Krupicka.
Sep 06
Our greatness and efficiency crumbles away not all at once but continually… the everyday, hourly pitiableness of our environment which we constantly overlook, the thousand tendrils of this or that little, fainthearted sensation which grows out of our neighborhood, out of our job, our social life, out of the way we divide up the day.