5 Quotations Found

We become what we consume. What you read today becomes the raw material of your thoughts tomorrow. High-quality inputs offer high-quality raw materials to assemble in the future. A person with an environment with rich sources of information makes better choices than someone consuming low-quality sources of information. Not only do they have better raw material, but they also have a broader perspective and a … [ Read more ]

Author: Shane Parrish | Source: Farnam Street | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Health & Medicine, Learning, Life & Society, Personal Improvement

Modern medicine is about killing bad species. We are really good at thinking about medicine in that context. You know, something bad makes us sick, we kill it, we get better. But the idea that something good is missing and that that makes us sick, we don’t have much of a framework for that. The medicine that would be required to think about this in … [ Read more ]

Author: Rob Dunn | Source: Life on Us: A Microscopic Journey | Subject: Health & Medicine

You only get one mind and one body. And it’s got to last a lifetime. But if you don’t take care of that mind and that body, they’ll be a wreck 40 years later… It’s what you do right now, today, that determines how your mind and body will operate 10, 20, and 30 years from now.

Author: Warren Buffett | Source: Inc. | Subjects: Health & Medicine, Personal Improvement

If you look at the actual budget breakdown, it tends to be that 1 percent is allocated to preventative health. I think that’s a bit of an underestimate because, you know, for things like cancer screening, et cetera, that would also count as preventative. But it’s still a small minority and a lot less than it needs to be.

This is the great pivot that needs … [ Read more ]

Author: Andrew Scott | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subjects: Health & Medicine, Politics & Public Policy

Working hard for something we don’t care about is called stress; working hard for something we love is called passion.

Author: Simon Sinek | Subjects: Career, Health & Medicine, Personal Improvement