No podemos recibir retroalimentación si somos incapaces de oír lo que viene de otras fuentes, o sencillamente no nos interesa. No podemos reconocer las oportunidades, ni crearlas, si en lugar de ver l...
No one has ever said this better than Mike Tyson, who, reflecting on the collapse of his fortune and fame, told a reporter, If you’re not humble, life will visit humbleness upon you. If
Next, we must examine our impulses to act—that is, our motivations. Are we doing things for the right reasons? Or do we act because we haven’t stopped to think? Or do we believe that we have to do som...
Men, the philosopher’s lecture-hall is a hospital—you shouldn’t walk out of it feeling pleasure, but pain, for you aren’t well when you enter it. —EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 3.23.30
Many of the Stoic aphorisms are simple to remember and even sound smart when quoted. But that’s not what philosophy is really about. The goal is to turn these words into works. As Musonius Rufus put i...
Let's be honest. Most of the time we don't find ourselves in horrible situations we must simply endure. Rather, we face some minor disadvantage or get stuck with some less-than-favorable conditions. O...
Knowledge—self-knowledge in particular—is freedom.
Just because your mind tells you that something is awful or evil or unplanned or otherwise negative doesn’t mean you have to agree. Just because other people say that something is hopeless or crazy or...
June 16th NO SHAME IN NEEDING HELP Don’t be ashamed of needing help. You have a duty to fulfill just like a soldier on the wall of battle. So what if you are injured and can’t climb up without another...
Jobs learned to reject the first judgments and the objections that spring out of them because those objections are almost always rooted in fear. When he ordered a special kind of glass for the first i...
It’s three interdependent, interconnected, and fluidly contingent disciplines: Perception, Action, and the Will.
It’s not enough to just not do evil. You must also be a force for good in the world, as best you can.
It’s important to connect the so-called temptation with its actual effects. Once you understand that indulging might actually be worse than resisting, the urge begins to lose its appeal. In this way,...
It’s a cliché question to ask, What would I change about my life if the doctor told me I had cancer? After our answer, we inevitably comfort ourselves with the same insidious lie: Well, thank God I do...
It takes a special kind of humility to grasp that you know less, even as you know and grasp more and more. It’s remembering Socrates’ wisdom lay in the fact that he knew that he knew next to nothing.
It is one of many campaigns I have done in my career, and by no means an unusual one. But it illustrates a part of the media system that is hidden from your view: how the news is created and driven by...
In the novel Fight Club, the character Jack’s apartment is blown up. All of his possessions—every stick of furniture, which he pathetically loved—were lost. Later it turns out that Jack blew it up him...
In failure or adversity, it’s so easy to hate. Hate defers blame. It makes someone else responsible. It’s a distraction too; we don’t do much else when we’re busy getting revenge or investigating the...
If your purpose is something larger than you—to accomplish something, to prove something to yourself—then suddenly everything becomes both easier and more difficult.
If we can focus on making clear what parts of our day are within our control and what parts are not, we will not only be happier, we will have a distinct advantage over other people who fail to realiz...