There is clarity (and joy) in seeing what others can’t see, in finding grace and harmony in places others overlook.
The pretense of knowledge is our most dangerous vice, because it prevents us from getting any better. Studious self-assessment is the antidote. The
The link economy encourages bloggers to repeat what other people are saying and link to it instead of doing their own reporting and standing behind it. This changes the news from what has happened int...
So what do we own? Just our lives—and not for long.
Our safety is not truly at risk here—there is little danger that we will starve or that violence will break out—
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...
No one is crushed by Fortune, unless they are first deceived by her … those who aren’t pompous in good times, don’t have their bubbles burst with change. Against either circumstance, the stable person...
Networking is not going to networking events and handing out business cards—that’s flyering. It is instead about forming, developing, and maintaining real relationships. It’s about being valuable and...
Lots of people, as the poet and artist Austin Kleon puts it, want to be the noun without doing the verb. To make something great, what’s required is need. As in, I need to do this. I have to. I can’t...
Like any good school, learning from failure isn’t free. The tuition is paid in discomfort or loss and having to start over.
It’s much easier to control our perceptions and emotions than it is to give up our desire to control other people and events.
It is sad to consider how much time many people spend in the course of a day doing things they have to do—not necessary obligations like work or family, but the obligations we needlessly accept out of...
It is just one word: Conspiracies. What follows is Machiavelli’s guide for rising up against a powerful enemy, for ending the reign of a supposed tyrant, for protecting yourself against those who wish...
It can ruin your life only if it ruins your character. —MARCUS AURELIUS
In the pay-per-pageview model, every post is a conflict of interest.
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.
If you want to be steady, if you want clarity, proper judgment is the best way.
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...
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.
How you handle even minor adversity might seem like nothing, but, in fact, it reveals everything.