Fix your attention on your intelligence. Let it do its thing.
Failure and adversity are relative and unique to each of us.
Common wisdom provides us with the maxims: Beware the calm before the storm. Hope for the best, prepare for the worst. The worst is yet to come. It gets worse before it gets better. The world might ca...
Because though our doubts (and self-doubts) feel real, they have very little bearing on what is and isn't possible.
A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts, so he loses touch with reality and lives in a world of illusions. —ALAN WATTS
Learn how to limit our passions and their control over our lives.
It certainly feels that way sometimes.
Don’t spend your time (the most valuable and least renewable of all your resources) on the things that don’t matter.
You will come across obstacles in life -- fair and unfair. And you will discover, time and time again, that what matters most is not what these obstacles are but how we see them, how we react to them,...
Would you have a great empire? Rule over yourself.
Where little danger is apprehended, the more the enemy will be unprepared and consequently there is the fairest prospect of success.
We underestimate our capabilities just as much and just as dangerously as we overestimate other abilities. Cultivate the ability to judge yourself accurately and honestly. Look inward to discern what...
We might not be emperors, but the world is still constantly testing us. It asks: Are you worthy? Can you get past the things that inevitably fall in your way? Will you stand up and show us what you're...
Uncertainty and fear are relieved by authority. Training is authority.
Tis a common proof, That lowliness is young ambition’s ladder. —SHAKESPEARE
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.
There’s a saying about how the Irish ship captain located all the rocks in the harbor—using the bottom of his boat. Whatever works, right? Remember
There is a scene in the movie The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. At the beginning, in the woods, Robert Ford, played by Casey Affleck, illustrates this phenomenon. He thinks t...
There are far more failures in the world due to a collapse of will than there will ever be from objectively conclusive external events.
Their lifestyle is the result of prioritizing.