What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first steps to something better. —WENDELL PHILLIPS
We talk to fill the void and the uncertainty.
We decide whether we’ll assent or reject. No one can force us to give up or to believe something that is untrue
We can stop seeing the problems in front of us as problems.
We can see disaster rationally. Or rather, like Rockefeller, we can see opportunity in every disaster,
Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know. —LAO TZU
This is why we shouldn’t listen too closely to what other people say (or to what the voice in our head says, either). We’ll find ourselves erring on the side of accomplishing nothing.
The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close up. — CHUCK PALAHNIUK
The more you say, Robert Greene has written, the more likely you are to say something foolish.
The more you do, the harder you work, the luckier you seem to get.
The combination of power, fear, and mania can be deadly. The leader, convinced that he might be betrayed, acts first and betrays others first. Afraid that he's not well liked, he works so hard to get...
The best men are not those who have waited for chances but who have taken them; besieged chance, conquered the chance, and made chance the servitor. —E. H. CHAPIN
Stop looking for angels, and start looking for angles.
Stoicism as the ideal personal operating system
So today, as RSS buttons disappear from browsers and blogs, just know that this happened on purpose, so that readers could be deceived more easily.
Say little, do much
Pride blunts the very instrument we need to own in order to succeed: our mind. Our ability to learn, to adapt, to be flexible, to build relationships, all of this is dulled by pride.
Plutarch’s reflection that we don’t so much gain the knowledge of things by the words, as words by the experience [we have] of things.
Perspective is everything.
Patrick Vlaskovits, who was part of the initial conversation that the term growth hacker came out of, put it well: The more innovative your product is, the more likely you will have to find new and no...