We should take wandering outdoor walks, so that the mind might be nourished and refreshed by the open air and deep breathing. —SENECA, ON TRANQUILITY OF MIND
Ordinary people shy away from negative situations, just as they do with failure. They do their best to avoid trouble. What great people do is the opposite. They are their best in these situations. The...
Think of what you have been putting off. Issues you declined to deal with. Systemic problems that felt too overwhelming to address. Dead time is revived when we use it as an opportunity to do what we’...
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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.
Sometimes being superficial—taking things only at first glance—is the most profound approach.
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...
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...
If what’s up to us is the playing field, then what is not up to us are the rules and conditions of the game. Factors that winning athletes make the best of and don’t spend time arguing against (becaus...
Sometimes the longest way around is the shortest way home.
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...
Our safety is not truly at risk here—there is little danger that we will starve or that violence will break out—
No slavery is more disgraceful, he quipped, than one which is self-imposed.
It’s three interdependent, interconnected, and fluidly contingent disciplines: Perception, Action, and the Will.
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.
In other words, through our perception of events, we are complicit in the creation—as well as the destruction—of
The pretense of knowledge is our most dangerous vice, because it prevents us from getting any better. Studious self-assessment is the antidote. The
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
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...
Instead, the timeless, recurring problems that make us human—those are ambitious problems to tackle. Some
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