Try praying differently, and see what happens: Instead of asking for ‘a way to sleep with her,’ try asking for ‘a way to stop desiring to sleep with her.’ Instead of ‘a way to get rid of him,’ try ask...
That on which you so pride yourself will be your ruin, Montaigne had inscribed on the beam of his ceiling.
Through our perception of events, we are complicit in the creation—as well as the destruction—of every one of our obstacles. There
Prefiero la disciplina del conocimiento a la anarquía de la ignorancia. Perseguimos el conocimiento de la misma forma en que un cerdo persigue trufas. —David Ogilvy
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool. — RICHARD FEYNMAN
Too often we react emotionally, get despondent, and lose our perspective. All that does is turn bad things into really bad things. Unhelpful perceptions can invade our minds -- that sacred place of re...
THE FOOL WHO FEEDS THE MONSTER. I knew I had to find this century-old drawing, though I wasn’t sure why. As I rode the escalator through the glass canyon of the atrium and into the bowels of the centr...
T he single most important practice in Stoic philosophy is differentiating between what we can change and what we can’t.
Receive feedback, maintain hunger, and chart a proper course in life.
Ultimately, nerve is a matter of defiance and control.
Reflect, then, he said, that your ancestors set up those trophies, not that you may gaze at them in wonder, but that you may also imitate the virtues of the men who set them up.
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool. —RICHARD FEYNMAN M
Remember that it’s not only the desire for wealth and position that debases and subjugates us, but also the desire for peace, leisure, travel, and learning. It doesn’t matter what the external thing i...
Perspective has two definitions. Context: a sense of the larger picture of the world, not just what is immediately in front of us Framing: an individual’s unique way of looking at the world, a way tha...
The first product of self-knowledge is humility,
Some things are in our control, while others are not. We control our opinion, choice, desire, aversion, and, in a word, everything of our own doing. We don’t control our body, property, reputation, po...
Some companies like Airbnb and Instragram spend a long time trying new iterations until they achieve what growth hackers call Product Market Fit (PMF);
The Russians call this maskirovka—the art of deception and confusion. It is as old as strategy itself. Undermine your enemy, Sun Tzu advised 2,500 years ago. Subvert him, attack his morale, strike at...
So what do we own? Just our lives—and not for long.
The historian E. P. Thompson said that history never happens as the actors suspect, that history is instead the record of unintended consequences. The assassination of Julius Caesar does not restore t...
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