We tend to overestimate what we can do in a day， and underestimate what we can achieve in a decade. Miraculous things can be accomplished if you give it ten years. A long game will compound small gains to overcome even big mistakes.

译文：读书是为了明白事理，做事就应当竭尽自己的心力。

自然是最好的建筑师导师。

I think of my pile of old paperbacks, their pages gone wobbly, like they’d once belonged to the sea.