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Fantastic read. One sample: " It far easier to find a reason not to love someone, than otherwise. Rejection requires only one reason. Love requires complete ac
by albertcardona 16y ago
Fantastic read. One sample:
" It far easier to find a reason not to love someone, than otherwise. Rejection requires only one reason. Love requires complete acceptance. It is hard work – the only kind of work that I find palatable."
(The Anna Karenina principle, in other words.)
- swombat 16y agoJust for completeness, in case someone doesn't know about it, the Anna Karenina principle (first time I've heard it called this) refers to the first line of the Tolstoy book of that same name: http://www.penguinclassics.co.uk/nf/shared/WebDisplay/0,,48992_1_10,00.html http://www.penguinclassics.co.uk/nf/shared/WebDisplay/0,,489... 'All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.'
- three14 16y agoFrom http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Karenina_principle http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Karenina_principle: The Anna Karenina principle was popularized by Jared Diamond in his book Guns, Germs and Steel to describe an endeavor in which a deficiency in any one of a number of factors dooms it to failure. Consequently, a successful endeavor (subject to this principle) is one in which every last one of the possible deficiencies has been avoided.
- swombat 16y agoThanks for this! I actually read the book, I should really have remembered this...