Uncertainty and fear are relieved by authority. Training is authority.
It is essential for you to remember that the attention you give to any action should be in due proportion to its worth, for then you won’t tire and give up, if you aren’t busying yourself with lesser...
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...
If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.
The market was inherently unpredictable and often vicious—
There are far more failures in the world due to a collapse of will than there will ever be from objectively conclusive external events.
We’ve all done it. Said: I am so [overwhelmed, tired, stressed, busy, blocked, outmatched]. And then what do we do about it? Go out and party. Or treat ourselves. Or sleep in. Or wait. It feels better...
The most powerful predictor of what spreads online is anger.
Real strength lies in the control or, as Nassim Taleb put it, the domestication of one’s emotions, not in pretending they don’t exist.
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.
Since the vast majority of our words and actions are unnecessary, corralling them will create an abundance of leisure and tranquility.
The only relationship between work and chatter is that one kills the other. Let
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...
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...
Perfectionism rarely begets perfection—only disappointment.
Great commanders look for decision points. For it is bursts of energy directed at decisive points that break things wide open. They
He says the best way out is always through And I agree to that, or in so far As I can see no way out but through. —ROBERT FROST
How beautifully Plato put it. Whenever you want to talk about people, it’s best to take a bird’s-eye view and see everything all at once—of gatherings, armies, farms, weddings and divorces, births and...
Sometimes ego is suppressed on the ascent. Sometimes an idea is so powerful or timing is so perfect (or one is born into wealth or power) that it can temporarily support or even compensate for a massi...
There is a balance. Soccer coach Tony Adams expresses it well. Play for the name on the front of the jersey, he says, and they’ll remember the name on the back. When
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