If someone we knew took traffic signals personally, we would judge them insane. Yet
If we’re going to succeed in achieving our goals despite the obstacles that may come, this strength in will must be built.
If you can’t swallow your pride, you can’t lead. He
We can learn to focus on what things really are.
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.
If you wish to improve, be content to appear clueless or stupid in extraneous matters—don’t wish to seem knowledgeable. And if some regard you as important, distrust yourself. —EPICTETUS, ENCHIRIDION,...
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.
Apply yourself to thinking through difficulties—hard times can be softened, tight squeezes widened, and heavy loads made lighter for those who can apply the right pressure. —SENECA, ON TRANQUILITY OF...
As Sean Ellis, one of the first growth hackers—he coined the term with Patrick Vlaskovits—puts it: Focusing on customer acquisition over ‘awareness’ takes discipline. . . . At a certain scale, awarene...
In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune’s habit of behaving just as she pleases. —SENECA
Because though our doubts (and self-doubts) feel real, they have very little bearing on what is and isn't possible.
You thought it would get easier when you arrived; instead, it’s even harder—a different animal entirely. What you found is that you must manage yourself in order to maintain your success.
The next step after we discard our expectations and accept what happens to us, after understanding that certain things—particularly bad things—are outside our control, is this: loving whatever happens...
Next, we must examine our impulses to act—that is, our motivations. Are we doing things for the right reasons? Or do we act because we haven’t stopped to think? Or do we believe that we have to do som...
Think of the life you have lived until now as over and, as a dead man, see what’s left as a bonus and live it according to Nature. Love the hand that fate deals you and play it as your own, for what c...
Product Market Fit is a feeling backed with data and information.
Too many people think that great victories like Grant’s and Edison’s came from a flash of insight. That they cracked the problem with pure genius. In fact, it was the slow pressure, repeated from many...
Oh, how blessed young men are who have to struggle for a foundation and beginning in life, he once said. I shall never cease to be grateful for the three and half years of apprenticeship and the diffi...
I judge you unfortunate because you have never lived through misfortune. You have passed through life without an opponent—no one can ever know what you are capable of, not even you. —SENECA, ON PROVID...
We defeat emotions with logic, or at least that’s the idea. Logic is questions and statements. With enough of them, we get to root causes (which are always easier to deal with).
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