There is a moment in The Great Gatsby when Jay Gatsby introduces Nick Carraway to Meyer Wolfsheim, mentioning offhandedly that he is the man who fixed the 1919 World Series. The idea staggers Gatsby’s...
There are far more failures in the world due to a collapse of will than there will ever be from objectively conclusive external events.
The reason the knives are so sharp online is because the pie is so small.
The philosophy asserts that virtue (meaning, chiefly, the four cardinal virtues of self-control, courage , justice , and wisdom) is happiness, and it is our perceptions of things— rather than the thin...
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
The only relationship between work and chatter is that one kills the other. Let
The next time someone gets upset near you—crying, yelling, breaking something, being pointed or cruel—watch how quickly this statement will stop them cold: I hope this is making you feel better.
The founding of a company, making money in the market, or the formation of an idea is messy. Reducing it to a narrative retroactively creates a clarity that never was and never will be there. When
The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing, because an artful life requires being prepared to meet and withstand sudden and unexpected attacks. —MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 7.61
The Discipline of Perception (how we see and perceive the world around us) The Discipline of Action (the decisions and actions we take—and to what end) The Discipline of Will (how we deal with the thi...
Success is intoxicating, yet to sustain it requires sobriety. We can’t keep learning if we think we already know everything.
Snark encourages the fakeness and stupidity it is supposedly trying to rail against.
Since the vast majority of our words and actions are unnecessary, corralling them will create an abundance of leisure and tranquility.
She had purpose. She had direction. She wasn’t driven by passion, but by reason.
Samuel Zemurray.
Perfectionism rarely begets perfection—only disappointment.
People claim to want to do something that matters, yet they measure themselves against things that don’t, and track their progress not in years but in microseconds. They want to make something timeles...
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...
Most trouble is temporary… unless you make that not so. Recovery is not grand, it’s one step in front of the other. Unless your cure is more of the disease. Only
Most trouble is temporary . . . unless you make that not so. Recovery is not grand, it’s one step in front of the other. Unless your cure is more of the disease.