For me it was these.

“A focused fool can accomplish more than a distracted genius”

“Until the lion learns to write, every story will glorify the hunter”

These two quotes really helped get my @** in gear.

  • Starting listening to podcasts is what has probably made the biggest change in how I see the world. It’s difficult to single out any individual thing from there but one worth mentioning would be the realization of no free will. It’s quite a different looking world once you realize that things happen because of other things that happened in the past - not because an agent with free will just decided to do so.