Our first idea is a grand opening, a big launch, a press release, or major media coverage. We default to thinking we need an advertising budget. We want red carpet and celebrities. Most dangerously we...
Out of the right speaker in your inner ear will come the endless stream of self-aggrandizement, the recitation of one’s specialness, of how much more open and gifted and brilliant and knowing and misu...
People learn from their failures. Seldom do they learn anything from success. It’s
People seek retreats for themselves in the country, by the sea, or in the mountains. You are very much in the habit of yearning for those same things. But this is entirely the trait of a base person,...
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...
Philosophy is simply asking us to pay careful attention and to strive to be more than a pawn. As Viktor Frankl puts it in The Will to Meaning, Man is pushed by drives but pulled by values.
Philosophy's true use - An operating system for life's difficulties and hardships.
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
Principles are better than instructions and hacks. We can figure out the specifics later—but only if we learn the right way to approach them.
Receive feedback, maintain hunger, and chart a proper course in life.
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.
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...
Remember that this moment is not your life, it’s just a moment in your life. Focus on what is in front of you, right now. Ignore what it represents or it means or why it happened to you. There is plen...
Remember that today when you try to extend your reach outward—that it’s much better and more appropriately directed inward.
Remember: We choose how we’ll look at things. We retain the ability to inject perspective into a situation. We can’t change the obstacles themselves—that part of the equation is set—but the power of p...
Responsibility requires a readjustment and then increased clarity and purpose. First, setting the top-level goals and priorities of the organization and your life. Then enforcing and observing them.
Roger Ebert calls snarking cultural vandalism. He’s right. Snark makes culture impossible, or rather, it makes the conditions that make culture possible impossible. Earnestness, honesty, vulnerability...
Show me someone sick and happy, in danger and happy, dying and happy, exiled and happy, disgraced and happy. Show me! By God, how much I’d like to see a Stoic. But since you can’t show me someone that...
Show me that the good life doesn’t consist in its length, but in its use, and that it is possible—no, entirely too common—for a person who has had a long life to have lived too little. —SENECA, MORAL...
Silence. The ability to deliberately keep yourself out of the conversation and subsist without its validation. Silence is the respite of the confident and the strong.
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