Quotes About Development

What saves is the willingness to learn from what you don't know.

Pointing is, as well, a crucial precursor to the development of language.

Hace unos 300 millones de años, los cerebros y los sistemas nerviosos eran comparativamente simples. No obstante, ya poseían la estructura y la neuroquímica necesarias para procesar información sobre el estatus y la sociedad.

You might be winning but you're not growing, and growing might be the most important form of winning. Should victory in the present always take precedence over trajectory across time?

No eres de forma alguna tan solo lo que ya sabes, también eres todo lo que podrías saber si así lo quisieras.

those who start to have will probably get more.

People differ in intelligence, which is in large part the ability to learn and transform.

It is far better to become something than to remain anything but become nothing.

I will try to want whatever it is that would make my life better—whatever that might be—and I will start working on it now.

with each day, your baseline of comparison gets a little higher, and that's magic. That's compound interest. Do that for three years, and your life will be entirely different. Now you're aiming for something higher. Now you're wishing on a star. Now the beam is disappearing from your eye, and you're learning to see. And what you aim at determines what you see. That's worth repeating. What you aim at determines what you see.

Did what I want happen? No. Then my aim or my methods were wrong. I still have something to learn." That is the voice of authenticity.

That which you approach voluntary shrinks as you approach it and you grow while if you run the reverse happens

It is useful to take your place at the bottom of a hierarchy. It can aid in the development of gratitude and humility. Gratitude: There are people whose expertise exceeds your own, and you should be wisely pleased about that.

Circumstances change, and so can you. Positive feedback loops, adding effect to effect, can spiral counterproductively in a negative direction, but can also work to get you ahead.

is far better to render Beings in your care competent than to protect them.

Set your ambitions, even if you are uncertain about what they should be. The better ambitions have to do with the development of character and ability, rather than status and power. Status you can lose. You carry character with you wherever you go, and it allows you to prevail against adversity

En términos estadísticos, los niños de dos años son las personas más violentas que existen.

It is good to be a beginner, but it is a good of a different sort to be an equal among equals.

It is far better to render Beings in your care competent than to protect

It isn't you I care about, it is who you could be

You can't long tolerate being swamped and overwhelmed beyond your capacity to cope while you are learning what you still need to know. Thus, you need to place one foot in what you have mastered and understood and the other in what you are currently exploring and mastering.

You might object: I should be winning at everything! But winning at everything might only mean that you're not doing anything new or difficult. You might be winning but you're not growing, and growing might be the most important form of winning. Should victory in the present always take precedence over trajectory across time?

Tolkien's Bilbo must become a thief before he can become a hero. He must incorporate his monstrousness, so that he can supersede his naive harmlessness, before he is tough enough to face the terrors that confront him.

Carl Jung hypothesized that the European mind found itself motivated to develop the cognitive technologies of science—to investigate the material world—after implicitly concluding that Christianity, with its laser-like emphasis on spiritual salvation, had failed to sufficiently address the problem of suffering in the here-and-now.