Category: books
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Most “successful” people, as the entrepreneur and investor Andrew Wilkinson has observed, are just a walking anxiety disorder, harnessed for productivity. I have met many of them. Some of the world’s richest people. Most powerful political leaders. Singers and actresses. Influencers and billionaires. Very few are truly happy. Most of them, in their conquest to…
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Feeling of desperation, hopelessness for the future.
Giving into hedonism or addressing the challenges? This passage from Labatuts Maniac p64 shines a light om genius sind Johannes van Neumann upbringing so much resembles what we see today. “I find it embarrassing to admit that I envied their capacity to become so immersed in their imaginations, for I was simply willfully ignorant of…