It's the same when you listen to any kind of successful athlete. My older brother has a useful name for them - he calls them lottery ticket careers. I are engaged in what he calls these lottery ticket careers. On the one hand it's very, very unlikely that you're ever going to hit it. On the other hand if you do hit it, you really hit it. You have to be engaged with it, though, maybe you're entire life. And if you never actually do hit it? You kind of jovially lie yourself along the way and recognize that it may produce things outside the hitting it kinds of goods, I suppose.
What is the most fascinating kind of self-deception to me, and a kind that isn't necessarily unhealthy, is what Friedrich Nietzsche called "strategic… - Clancy Martin
What is the most fascinating kind of self-deception to me, and a kind that isn't necessarily unhealthy, is what Friedrich Nietzsche called "strategic…
- Clancy Martin
That is the person you want publishing your book. To be in it, you really have to believe in books and love whatever it is you're publishing. Both on… - Clancy Martin
That is the person you want publishing your book. To be in it, you really have to believe in books and love whatever it is you're publishing. Both on…
Unreflective self-deception leads people into hypocrisy and all sorts of moral failings. When you look at these people who are busy pontificating lik… - Clancy Martin
Unreflective self-deception leads people into hypocrisy and all sorts of moral failings. When you look at these people who are busy pontificating lik…
I don't care about the politics, I don't care about the practicality, I don't care about any of it. - Clancy Martin
I don't care about the politics, I don't care about the practicality, I don't care about any of it.
It's the same when you listen to any kind of successful athlete. My older brother has a useful name for them - he calls them lottery ticket careers. … - Clancy Martin
It's the same when you listen to any kind of successful athlete. My older brother has a useful name for them - he calls them lottery ticket careers. …
That's the old AA maxim, "Always have a drink in your hand and you'll never want a drink." That's one of the most classic deceptions in the literatur… - Clancy Martin
That's the old AA maxim, "Always have a drink in your hand and you'll never want a drink." That's one of the most classic deceptions in the literatur…
I guess we romanticize the loser. - Clancy Martin
I guess we romanticize the loser.
Both of us, me and Friedrich Nietzsche being writers, if we weren't capable of some strategic self-deception, we would have moved on to more lucrativ… - Clancy Martin
Both of us, me and Friedrich Nietzsche being writers, if we weren't capable of some strategic self-deception, we would have moved on to more lucrativ…
When I was writing Love and Lies, I was going over a lot of my old notes to see if there were any insights in them. I was obsessed with Friedrich Nie… - Clancy Martin
When I was writing Love and Lies, I was going over a lot of my old notes to see if there were any insights in them. I was obsessed with Friedrich Nie…
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