Who wants to be the person who can never let go? Is there so little meaning in your life that your only pursuit is work until you’re eventually carted off in a coffin? Take pride in your work. But it...
You cry, I’m suffering severe pain! Are you then relieved from feeling it, if you bear it in an unmanly way? —SENECA, MORAL LETTERS, 78.17
You don’t control the situation, but you control what you think about it.
I am going to be myself, the best version of that self. I am in this for the long game, no matter how brutal it might be.
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...
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...
Today, will you be part of the problem or part of the solution? Will you hear the wisdom of the world or drown it out with more noise?
Speculation led to disaster, he realized, and he needed to always ignore the mad crowd and its inclinations.
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 only real failure is abandoning your principles. Killing what you love because you can’t bear to part from it is selfish and stupid.
The Greeks had a word for this: apatheia. It's the kind of calm equanimity that comes with the absence of irrational or extreme emotions. Not the loss of feeling altogether, just the loss of the harmf...
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...
Today, though, if someone were to hand you a hundred-dollar bill, you might rub it between your fingers or hold it up to the light, just to confirm it wasn’t a fake. All this for an imaginary currency...
Be slow in deliberation, but be prompt to carry out your resolves – Demonicus
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 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 ways this separation manifests itself negatively are immense: We can’t work with other people if we’ve put up walls. We can’t improve the world if we don’t understand it or ourselves. We can’t tak...
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’...
When action is our priority, vanity falls away.
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...
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