Of course, when pushed, the natural instinct is always to push back. But martial arts teach us that we have to ignore this impulse. We can’t push back, we have to pull until opponents lose their balan...
No slavery is more disgraceful, he quipped, than one which is self-imposed.
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...
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...
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...
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
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 three interdependent, interconnected, and fluidly contingent disciplines: Perception, Action, and the Will.
It feels good, but it’s so very wrong.
It can ruin your life only if it ruins your character. —MARCUS AURELIUS
Is there a chance? Do I have a shot? Is there something I can do?
In other words, the best marketing decision you can make is to have a product or business that fulfills a real and compelling need for a real and defined group of people—no matter how much tweaking an...
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 you want to be steady, if you want clarity, proper judgment is the best way.
If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity.
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...
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 have the power within me to keep that out. I can see the truth.
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.