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Category: Eric Weiner

Yes, failure is part of the mix, he says, but it is a means, not an end. If you fail repeatedly, and in the same manner, you’re an idiot, not a genius.

failure, genius, idiot

The act of underlining always contains an element of self-recognition.

Too often when we say we feel joyful, we’re really feeling manic. There is a frenetic nature to our joy, a whiff of panic; we’re afraid the moment might end abruptly. But then there are other moments when our joy is more solidly grounded. I am not speaking of a transcendental moment, of bliss, but something less.

happiness, travel

Perhaps it’s true you can’t go back in time, but you can return to the scene of a love, of a crime, of happiness, and of a fateful decision; the places are what remain, are what you can possess, are what is immortal.

happiness, love, travel

In other words, where we are is vital to who we are.

existentialism, happiness, inspirational, travel

Rule number one: wear loose clothing. No Problem. Rule number two: no alcohol for the next three days. Slight problem. I’ll miss my evening glass of wine but figure I can go for three days without and compensate later.And the last rule: absolutely no coffee or tea or caffeine of any kind.Big problem. This rule hits me like a sucker punch and sure would have knocked me to the floor had I not been sitting there already. I’m eying the exits, plotting my escape. I knew enlightenment came at a price, but i had no idea the price was this steep. A sense of real panic sets in. How am I going to survive for the next seventy-two hours without a single cup of coffee?

To describe yourself as an entrepreneur or a disrupter is as meaningless as describing yourself as an athlete or a thinker. Really? What sports do you play? What do you think about?

athletes, disruption, entrepreneur, meaningless, thinkers

As I railed on and on, I became increasingly energied and excited by my own misery and misanthropy until I reached a kind of orgasm of negativity.’… The Brits don’t merely enjoy misery, they get off on it.

british, misery, moaning

You can be as good as Rembrandt, but if no one discovers you, you will only be a genius in theory.

discovery, genius, rembrandt

Geniuses are always marginalized to one degree or another. Someone wholly invested in the status quo is unlikely to disrupt it.

disruption, genius, marginalization, revolutionary, status-quo

Ideas are like bananas. That bananas grow only in tropical regions doesn’t make them any less delicious in Scandinavia.

bananas, delicious, ideas, scandinavia, tasty, tropical

First of all, nothing good ever came from a beanbag chair. Nothing. I am speaking from personal experience.

beanbag, beanbag-chair, ideas, nothing, personal-experience