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Learning about the "long view" from sci-fi legends

Updated: Apr 6



KEY TAKEAWAYS

  • Bestselling author Seth Godin has shaped how millions think about work, creativity, business, and life itself.

  • Godin notes that it’s hard to commit to the long haul, because we’ve been trained since childhood to chase short-term wins.

  • The wisdom of Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, and Ray Bradbury contains essential truths about long-term thinking.

 
 

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facilitating  those,
who are so motivated,
to enjoy the benefits of becoming  humble polymaths.   

“The universe
is full of magical things
patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.”

—Eden Phillpotts

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The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries.

Nikola Tesla

“It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.”

Vincent Van Gogh

" The unexamined life is not worth living."  

Attributed to Socrates​

“Who knows whether in a couple of centuries

there may not exist universities for restoring the old ignorance?”

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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