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Risk It, Be Different

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“¿Si no puedes ser disciplinado en las pequeñas cosas como tender la cama por las mañanas o doblar y colgar tus pantalones por la noche, cómo esperas ser disciplinado para las grandes cosas como empezar esa gran novela, empezar un nuevo negocio o tener el cuerpo de tus sueños?”

“The brain is more like a muscle and less like a storage area. If you really want to be a writer, you should want to write a lot. If you want to write a lot, then you need to be in training. You are preparing to run marathons, not emptying a suitcase. Learning new languages, acquiring new vocabulary, keeping yourself in various forms of constant logocentric discipline is one of the best things you can do. And language acquisition is nothing if not logocentric discipline.”

“I am now convinced that adolescents do not rebel against parents. They only rebel against certain destructive methods of discipline almost universally employed by parents. Turmoil and dissension in families can be the exception, not the rule, when parents learn to substitute a new method of resolving conflicts.”