...if people do things for lunk-headed, backward-looking reasons, why wouldn't we also do things for significance-seeking, self-actualizing reasons? If we are predictably irrational - and we clearly are- why couldn't we also be predictably transcendent?

Daniel H. Pink
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The only way to truly learn about yourself is to seek out situations where you can be tested. If people aren't tested, they don't learn. And if people don't learn, they won't change. If there were no tests, then people would never learn anything or grow as people.

Source: Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

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