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" "The mind is alive when it is flexible and adaptable. It can be updated, take new form, endure change.
The mind is dead when it is fixed and immovable. It cannot absorb new ideas or thoughts. It is stiff and brittle.
When we lose our ability to adapt, to move with the environment, to tolerate new beliefs and reshape our old ones, our mind is at risk of becoming outdated. The fixed mind becomes a relic.
James Clear (born 1986) is an American writer and public speaker known for Self-improvement.
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