If you reflect on who you were six months ago and don’t feel even slightly embarrassed by that person, you aren’t growing. You’re stagnant.
“How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words.” — David Foster Wallace, The Pale King
“Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.” — David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
To get good at something often involves many small choices. Stopping oneself from a short distraction, spending a small pocket of time on practice etc. but it is these small choices that make good good.
I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness. — Max Planck (1858-1947), Nobel Prize-winning German physicist and the father of quantum theory.