We can’t keep learning if we think we already know everything. Ryan Holiday, Ego is the Enemy, pg 99
Living clearly and presently takes courage. Don’t live in the haze of the abstract, live with the tangible and real, even if—especially if—it’s uncomfortable. Be part of what’s going on around you. Fe...
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.
Great commanders look for decision points. For it is bursts of energy directed at decisive points that break things wide open. They
Greatness comes from humble beginnings; it comes from grunt work. It means you’re the least important person in the room—until you change that with results. Ryan Holliday, Ego is the Enemy, pg 56
She had purpose. She had direction. She wasn’t driven by passion, but by reason.
Uncertainty and fear are relieved by authority. Training is authority. It’s a release valve. With enough exposure, you can adapt out those perfectly ordinary, even innate, fears that are bred mostly f...
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
Solo cuando estamos libres del ego y su influencia podemos alcanzar realmente nuestro mayor potencial.
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...
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 market was inherently unpredictable and often vicious—
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...
If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.
That’s Stoic joy—the joy that comes from purpose, excellence, and duty. It’s a serious thing—far more serious than a smile or a chipper voice.
Vires acquirit eundo
Nothing has sunk more creators and caused more unhappiness than this: our inherently human tendency to pursue a strategy aimed at accomplishing one goal while simultaneously expecting to achieve other...
This is why we can’t let externals determine whether something was worth it or not. It’s on us.
I don’t like work—no man does—but I like what is in the work—the chance to find yourself. —JOSEPH CONRAD
If an unjust prison sentence can be not only salvaged but transformative and beneficial, then for our purposes,
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