The Undefeated Mind Quotes by Alex Lickerman (2024)

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“We may rarely get feedback from the people around us about how meaningfully we’ve influenced their lives for the better, and even less often how they then may have gone on, as a direct result of our influence, to influence the lives of still others.But there’s little doubt this effect is real and frequently significant. The small kind word we leave with a stranger who we’ll never see again may not just spread out like ripples on a pond but may strike with the force of a tidal wave.We just never know.”
― Alex Lickerman, The Undefeated Mind: On the Science of Constructing an Indestructible Self

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“If our lives are so busy, so filled with errands and responsibilities and passions that we feel we have no emotional capacity or time to take compassionate action when confronted with the opportunity to do so, we need to consider reordering our life priorities.”
― Alex Lickerman, The Undefeated Mind: On the Science of Constructing an Indestructible Self

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“Something about disconnecting from one’s sense of self even briefly, about glimpsing oneself as belonging to a greater whole, seems profoundly and persistently comforting to most people who experience it.”
― Alex Lickerman, The Undefeated Mind: On the Science of Constructing an Indestructible Self

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“Victory may not be promised to any of us, but possessing an undefeated mind means behaving as though it is, as though to win we only need wage an all-out struggle and work harder than everyone else, trying everything we can, and when that fails trying everything we think we can’t, in full understanding that we have no one on whom we can rely for victory but ourselves.”
― Alex Lickerman, The Undefeated Mind: On the Science of Constructing an Indestructible Self

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“So when everything seems hopeless and you want to give up, no matter how much others may doubt you or you may doubt yourself, hold that knowledge fast to your heart and fix your mind unwaveringly on this most imperative of calls to action: never be defeated.”
― Alex Lickerman, The Undefeated Mind: On the Science of Constructing an Indestructible Self

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“And then I took action: I studied every spare moment I had, sometimes staying up late into the night, sometimes arising several hours early in the morning. I studied at every meal. I stopped watching television, reading for pleasure, even socializing with friends. For the entire year, I remained disciplined, focused, and relentless.”
― Alex Lickerman, The Undefeated Mind: On the Science of Constructing an Indestructible Self

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“And if we continue asking why, like the child we once were, trying to excavate down to our most rudimentary ambition—a time-worn exercise—we’ll eventually find all reasons lead to the same place, to the one core reason for living we’d sought all along, the core reason against which we measure the value of everything we do: to be happy.”
― Alex Lickerman, The Undefeated Mind: On the Science of Constructing an Indestructible Self

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