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A Good Story to Tell
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What stands in the way is the way.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Don’t try to age with grace, age with mischief, audacity, and a good story to tell.
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The real risk in this life has always been that of becoming oneself amidst the uncertainties of existence. As an Irish poet once said ‘a false sense of security is the only kind there is’
— Michael Meade
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Einstein was developing his first theory of relativity.
He tried to instill into us the elements of it, more or less successfully. As non-mathematicians we psychiatrists had difficulty in following his argument.
It was above all the simplicity and directness of his genius as a thinker that impressed me mightily and exerted a lasting influence on my own intellectual work. It was Einstein who first started me off thinking about a possible relativity of time as well as space, and their psychic conditionality.
… One can scarcely imagine a greater contrast than that between the mathematical and the psychological mentality.
— C.G. Jung
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I think just about everyone has some sort of genius, but it gets lost quickly as…
