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Wayfinding Part 1: Rats and Rafts (Kindle Single) QUOTES

Wayfinding Part 1: Rats and Rafts (Kindle Single) QUOTES

1 " Duration and intensity are other common reasons we might regret behaviors. Very few people feel shame about using Facebook or other social media sites, but many people harbor private guilt about the number of hours they spend on those sites, or how often they feel compelled to check those sites when they shouldn’t (while driving, while at work, while dining with family or friends). "

― Hugh Howey , Wayfinding Part 1: Rats and Rafts (Kindle Single)

2 " Sometime this week, make a list of all the things you spend significant amounts of time doing. Place the things you regret doing in one column and the things you do not regret in another. When you feel bored or compelled to spend your time doing something, see if you can substitute something from the first list with something from the second. It’s not easy, but the exercise may prove illuminating. It doesn’t matter if you fail; what matters is that you think about your decisions, rather than pressing switches with no curiosity at all. "

― Hugh Howey , Wayfinding Part 1: Rats and Rafts (Kindle Single)

3 " The rats represent our imprisonment. We are our own jailors, snared by base impulses, caught in a web of pleasure-seeking. The raft is our way out. Often, we will choose to drift downwind as Thor did, moving where instinct dictates. But we will also have to learn the crucial skill of sailing to windward, like David. This means exerting our willpower and overcoming our base impulses. It means learning to fight our way against our natural currents. "

― Hugh Howey , Wayfinding Part 1: Rats and Rafts (Kindle Single)

4 " I think it’s time we explored our worlds within. "

― Hugh Howey , Wayfinding Part 1: Rats and Rafts (Kindle Single)

5 " I like to think of my good decisions today as investments in my future self. "

― Hugh Howey , Wayfinding Part 1: Rats and Rafts (Kindle Single)

6 " It’s never too late to stop regretting. It’s never too late to see your present self as the young one and to listen to the person you hope to become. "

― Hugh Howey , Wayfinding Part 1: Rats and Rafts (Kindle Single)

7 " Six rats are thumping away at levers, ignoring food, drink, sleep, and sex. What’s going through their little brains? A chemical known as dopamine, that’s what. A lot of it. Dopamine "

― Hugh Howey , Wayfinding Part 1: Rats and Rafts (Kindle Single)