“The most intriguing thing about choosing an important but less interesting job is that it challenges you. The duller the job, the more challenging it is since not many people are willing to take up such tasks. However, once you get into this challenging job, the same job gradually becomes very interesting and satisfying.” ImportantInterestingJobSatisfyingChallengingGraduallyDuller Book:31 Ways to Happiness Source: 31 Ways to Happiness
“The uncertainty wore on him. The conditions in jail--the handcuffs, the noise, the filth, the crowding--mangled his senses. It's likely that, if one must be incarcerated in the United States, a jail in central Maine would be among the more tolerable spots, but to Knight it was torture. "Bedlam" is how he referred to the place. It never got dark in jail; at eleven p.m., the lights merely became a little duller. "I suspect," he noted, "more damage has been done to my sanity in jail, in months; than years, decades, in the woods.” YearsDarkUnited StatesConditionsMonthsWoodsDecadesNoiseUncertaintyTortureDamageJailSanityPlaceMaineFilthTolerableLightsHandcuffsWearIncarceratedDullerMangledCrowding Book:The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit Source: The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit