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Title: You Have Arrived at Your Destination Authors: Amor Towles Category:supplementals Number of Highlights: 15 Date: 2025-10-12 Last Highlighted: **
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But our strengths donāt serve us well in every circumstance at every phase of our lives. As we grow and enter new contexts, our longer-term strengths can suddenly hamper our worldly progress, which in turn can create dissonance at home.
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It goes without saying that our lives are intricate and multifaceted. But they also tend to have a larger arc that takes us from a position of youthful self-assurance through a period of setbacks, leading to a third phase in which, if weāre lucky, weāve confronted our limitations and become deeper people ready to lead richer lives.ā
Tags:motivation,youth
A second-act setbackāin which, having started confidently along a particular trajectory, we come face-to-face with our own limitations.ā
Tags:motivation,progress
āThe credit score was invented in the late 1980s by a mathematician and an engineer who realized that by analyzing historical patterns of consumer debt repayment, they could design algorithms that could predict an individualās reliability as a mortgagee.
You achieved in school, advanced in a competitive field, steered clear of higher-risk opportunities, and ensured that when you had children, they would be raised on a foundation of financial stability.
I would have happily been an asshole for thirty years in order to be wise for another fifty.ā
āSee that smile, Sam? Isnāt it enviable? I mean, heās just had a vision of what is important in life. I love the visual subtext of this shot because what is Daniel looking at right now? His typewriter! During all those years when he was toiling away in a kitchen, living in a walk-up, writing books that no one wanted to read, there was scarcity and rejection, but there was freedom and authenticity too.ā
Beezer gave Sam the nod of mutual understanding. Sam gave Beezer the shake of solitary confusion.
āScience says we can form lasting impressions of people in as short as two minutes,ā
āBecause genetics is the future of defense.ā
āDo you know what the odds are of black coming up on a roulette wheel six times in a row?ā Beezer shook his head. āOne in seventy-six. And with that once-in-a-lifetime stroke of good fortune, my father staved off the inevitable for another fourteen months.ā
Sam shook his head. āSome of what youāve said may be true,ā he admitted finally. āBut I think Annie and I have another act ahead of us.ā āOh,ā replied HT. āI didnāt say it was Annieās third act. Weāre fairly certain that sheās still in her second.ā
Sam always took some comfort from the outmoded decor, because there was no better predictor of an earnings disappointment than a brand-new corporate headquarters. And while one ādisruptiveā business model would inevitably replace another, the good old power company would always be there to turn on the lights.
They talk about their childhoods. They say what they think about us and what they think about each other. They say what they think about themselves. And you know something? That was the most interesting day of my life.ā
HT slid out of the booth and stood in order to shake Samās hand. Which was just as well, since it made it so much easier for Sam to punch him in the face.