If the definition of insanity is trying the same thing over and over and expecting different results, then passion is a form of mental retardation- deliberately blunting our most critical cognitive fu...
If something is in our control, its worth every ounce of our efforts and energy. Death is not one of those things. It is not in our control how long we'll live or what will come and take us from life....
I can’t call a person a hard worker just because I hear they read and write, even if working at it all night. Until I know what a person is working for, I can’t deem them industrious. . . . I can if t...
I am a great believer in luck. The harder I work, the more of it I seem to have.
Humility engenders learning because it beats back the arrogance that puts blinders on. It leaves you open for truths to reveal themselves. You don’t stand in your own way. . . . Do you know how you ca...
How does your ruling reason manage itself? For in that is the key to everything. Whatever else remains, be it in the power of your choice or not, is but a corpse and smoke. —MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIO...
How does what you do every day reflect, in some way, the values you claim to care about?
Here’s the other part: once you win, everyone is gunning for you. It’s during your moment at the top that you can afford ego the least—because the stakes are so much higher, the margins for error are...
Heraclitus called self-deception an awful disease and eyesight a lying sense. —DIOGENES LAERTIUS, LIVES OF THE EMINENT PHILOSOPHERS,
Hate defers blame. It makes someone else responsible.
Hate at any point is a cancer that gnaws away at the very vital center of your life and your existence. It is like eroding acid that eats away the best and the objective center of your life.
Growth hackers are a hybrid of marketer and coder, one who looks at the traditional question of How do I get customers for my product? and answers with A/B tests, landing pages, viral factor, email de...
Greatness comes from humble beginnings; it comes from grunt work. It means you’re the least important person in the room—until you change that with results. Ryan Holiday, Ego is the Enemy, pg 56
For the rest of his life, the greater the chaos, the calmer Rockefeller would become,
For the rest of his life, the greater the chaos, the calmer Rockefeller would become, particularly when others around him were either panicked or mad with greed. He would make much of his fortune duri...
For some reason, these days we tend to downplay the importance of aggression, of taking risks, of barreling forward. It’s probably because it’s been negatively associated with certain notions of viole...
Focusing exclusively on what is in our power magnifies and enhances our power.
First, see clearly. Next, act correctly. Finally, endure and accept the world as it is.
Feel unprotected against the elements or forces or surroundings. Remind yourself how pointless it is to rage and fight and try to one-up those around you. Go and put yourself in touch with the infinit...
Fear is debilitating, distracting, tiring, and often irrational. Pericles understood this completely, and he was able to use the power of perspective to defeat it. The