Only the rational and disciplined mind could hope to profit from
Never in a hurry never worried never desperate never stopping short
La seguridad en uno mismo se vuelve arrogancia, la asertividad se vuelve obstinación y la confianza en nuestras capacidades se convierte en descuido.
He was willing to risk great personal harm and expend massive amounts of energy to develop that hardiness. You’ll have far better luck toughening yourself up than you ever will trying to take the teet...
Any fool can learn from experience. The trick is to learn from other people’s experience.
And transform that negative situation into an education, a skill set, or a fortune.
You shouldn’t give circumstances the power to rouse anger, for they don’t care at all. —MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 7.38
When you worry, ask yourself, ‘What am I choosing to not see right now?’ What important things are you missing because you chose worry over introspection, alertness or wisdom?
What happened yesterday—what happened five minutes ago—is the past. We can reignite and restart whenever we like. Why not do it right now?
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).
Understand at last that you have something in you more powerful and divine than what causes the bodily passions and pulls you like a mere puppet. What thoughts now occupy my mind? Is it not fear, susp...
To steady our nerves To ignore what disturbs or limits others To place things in perspective To revert to the present moment To focus on what can be controlled
To one person a situation may be negative. To another, that same situation may be positive.
To borrow from Budd Schulberg’s description of a media manipulator in his classic novel The Harder They Fall, I was indulging myself in the illusions that we can deal in filth without becoming the thi...
To argue, to complain, or worse, to just give up, these are choices. Choices that more often than not, do nothing to get us across the finish line.
This is the nature of the American legal system, and of conspiracy as well. It’s slow, adversarial. Moral quandaries and personal issues are reduced to brief moments and decided on small points of law...
This insight lives on today in Warren Buffet’s famous adage to
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’...
There are a few things to keep in mind when faced with a seemingly insurmountable obstacle. We must try: To be objective To control emotions and keep an even keel To choose to see the good in a situat...
The race has changed. The prize and spoils no longer go to the person who makes it to market first. They go to the person who makes it to Product Market Fit first.