Freedom? That’s easy. It’s in your choices. Happiness? That’s easy. It’s in your choices. Respect of your peers? That too is in the choices you make.
It doesn't make you a bad person to want to be remembered. To want to make it to the top. To provide for yourself and your family. After all, that's all part of the allure. There is a balance. Soccer...
A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.
It angers me to see armed defenders at the bottom of Lost Cause statues, adding a renewed threat of violence to icons that are themselves part of an ideology of violence and intimidation.
You know what's better than building things up in your imagination? Building things up in real life.
We all have goals: We want to matter. We want to be important. We want to have freedom and power to pursue our creative work. We want respect from our peers and recognition for our accomplishments. No...
Steve Jobs was famous for what observers called his reality distortion field. Part motivational tactic, part sheer drive and ambition, this field made him notoriously dismissive of phrases such as It...
Life without a design is erratic. As soon as one is in place, principles become necessary. I think you’ll concede that nothing is more shameful than uncertain and wavering conduct, and beating a cowar...
Humble in our aspirations Gracious in our success Resilient in our failures
Here’s a lesson to test your mind’s mettle: take part of a week in which you have only the most meager and cheap food, dress scantly in shabby clothes, and ask yourself if this is really the worst tha...
Blogs are assailed on all sides, by the crushing economics of the business, dishonest sources, inhuman deadlines, pageview quotas, inaccurate information, greedy publishers, poor training, the demands...
I have a pet goat.
Seize this moment to deploy the plan that has long sat dormant in your head.
Character is a powerful defense in a world that would love to be able to seduce you, buy you, tempt you, and change you. If you know what you believe and why you believe it, you’ll avoid poisonous rel...
Listen to Marcus Aurelius’s empowering call to get active in your own rescue—if you care for yourself at all—and do it while you can.
When you can break apart something, or look at it from some new angle, it loses its power over you.
Vivre sans temps mort. (Live without wasted time.) —PARISIAN POLITICAL SLOGAN
The single most important practice in Stoic philosophy is differentiating between what we can change and what we can’t. What we have influence over and what we do not.
Once you start attacking an obstacle, quitting is not an option.
Keep a list before your mind of those who burned with anger and resentment about something, of even the most renowned for success, misfortune, evil deeds, or any special distinction. Then ask yourself...