The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called “spannungsbogen”—which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing. —FROM “THE WISDOM OF MUAD’DIB” BY THE PRINCESS IRULAN

The boys are reading Dune. I was obsessed with that book when I was young. I read it over and over. At one time, I had committed it to memory, including the quotes of fictional bibles like that one. I took it all to heart absolutely:

Delay gratification. Train yourself to wait, be still. Say only truths / be evasive otherwise. Study. Study more, know many seemingly random things for all knowledge is potentially valuable. Observe people closely while not appearing to do so. Be underestimated for as long as possible. When you act, lead also...






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