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My point is that perceptual bias can affect nut jobs and scientists alike. If we hold too rigidly to what we think we know, we ignore or avoid evidence of anything that might change our mind. – Martha Beck

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The position that I take partly as a result of living in Asia is where you stop living according to your expectations and you become available to experience things as they are. – Martha Beck

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We virtually never feel our age, but thinking that we should can lead to disaster. – Martha Beck

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No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from lifes slings and arrows, and when death comes, we meet it alone. – Martha Beck

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