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"To know yourself, spend a season with something that cannot flatter you." L. Nault

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To know what you like is the beginning of wisdom and of old age. Youth is wholly experimental. The essence and charm of that unquiet and delightful epoch is ignorance of self as well as ignorance of life. These two unknowns the young man brings together again and again, now in the airiest touch, now with a bitter hug; now with exquisite pleasure, now with cutting pain; but never with indifference, to which he is a total stranger, and never with that near kinsman of indifference, contentment.

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1888-09), “A Letter to a Young Gentleman who Proposes to Embrace the Career of Art,” Scribner’s Magazine, Vol. 4, No. 3

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Stevenson, Robert Louis - Essay (1888-09), "A Letter to a Young Gentleman who Proposes to Embrace the Career of Art," Scribner's Magazine, Vol. 4, No. 3 | WIST Quotations

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Adrian Segar Feb 25

How can you learn from personal stories? There are three steps: notice the story, capture it, and tease out the meaning.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/learning/2010/08/how-you-can-learn-from-personal-stories

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Wisdom in Space Feb 6

The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.
-- R. D. Laing

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Yahooey Jan 31

“It's a life's work to see yourself for what you really are and even then you might be wrong.” — Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men
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https://yahooeysblog.wordpress.com/2026/01/31/quote-of-the-day-5417/