Use this knowledge to be gentle and gracious.
This is the skill that must be cultivated—freedom from disturbance and perturbation—so you can focus your energy exclusively on solving problems, rather than reacting to them.
Strength is the ability to maintain a hold of oneself. It’s being the person who never gets mad, who cannot be rattled, because they are in control of their passions—rather than controlled by their pa...
Sherman had a good rule he tried to observe. Never give reasons for what you think or do until you must. Maybe,
Don’t spend your time (the most valuable and least renewable of all your resources) on the things that don’t matter.
The imperative is clear: stop sitting on your hands and start getting them dirty.
It’s far better that we become pragmatic and adaptable—able to do what we need to do anywhere, anytime. The place to do your work, to live the good life, is here.
The person who has practiced philosophy as a cure for the self becomes great of soul, filled with confidence, invincible—and greater as you draw near. SENECA, MORAL LETTERS, 111.2
Passion typically masks a weakness. Its breathlessness and impetuousness and franticness are poor substitutes for discipline, for mastery, for strength and purpose and perseverance. You need to be abl...
Face the symptoms. Cure the disease. Ego makes it so hard—it’s easier to delay, to double down, to deliberately avoid seeing the changes we need to make in our lives. But change begins by hearing the...
Samuel Zemurray.
Research shows that while goal visualization is important, after a certain point our mind begins to confuse it with actual progress. The same goes for verbalization. Even
The end goal of every growth hacker is to build a self-perpetuating marketing machine that reaches millions by itself.
Success is intoxicating, yet to sustain it requires sobriety. We can’t keep learning if we think we already know everything.
Many are harmed by fear itself, and many may have come to their fate while dreading fate. —SENECA, OEDIPUS, 992
For if a person shifts their caution to their own reasoned choices and the acts of those choices, they will at the same time gain the will to avoid, but if they shift their caution away from their own...
If you’re like me, you’ve sat and stared in fascination at the pictures of the ruins of Detroit that get passed around the internet.
George Clooney spent his first years in Hollywood getting rejected at auditions. He wanted the producers and directors to like him, but they didn’t and it hurt and he blamed the system for not seeing...
God laid down this law, saying: if you want some good, get it from yourself (1.29.4). Protect your own good in all that you do (4.3.11).
We decide what we will make of each and every situation. We decide whether we’ll break or whether we’ll resist. We decide whether we’ll assent or reject. No one can force us to give up or to believe s...
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