Welcome to the power of perception. Applicable in each and every situation, impossible to obstruct. It can only be relinquished.
We will learn that though we think big, we must act and live small in order to accomplish what we seek. Ryan Holiday, Ego is the Enemy, pg 22
We should not trust the masses who say only the free can be educated, but rather the lovers of wisdom who say that only the educated are free. —
We like to say that we don’t get to choose our parents, that they were given by chance—yet we can truly choose whose children we’d like to be. —SENECA
We don’t get to choose what happens to us, but we can always choose how we feel about it.
Unhelpful perceptions can invade our minds — that sacred place of reason, action and will — and throw off our compass.
Uber, a car service start-up founded by Travis Kalanick and Garrett Camp, has been giving out free rides during Austin’s SXSW conference for several years. During a single week, thousands of potential...
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...
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...
To quote Fight Club again, We buy things we don’t need, to impress people we don’t like.
Those who receive the bare theories immediately want to spew them, as an upset stomach does its food. First digest your theories and you won’t throw them up. Otherwise they will be raw, spoiled, and n...
Those obsessed with glory attach their well-being to the regard of others, those who love pleasure tie it to feelings, but the one with true understanding seeks it only in their own actions…. Think on...
This means that our outward-facing marketing and PR efforts are needed simply to reach out to and capture, at the beginning, a group of highly interested, loyal, and fanatical users. Then we grow with...
This is what you should teach me, how to be like Odysseus—how to love my country, wife and father, and how, even after suffering shipwreck, I might keep sailing on course to those honorable ends. —SEN...
Think of George Washington, putting everything he had into the American Revolution, and then saying, The event is in the hand of God. Or Eisenhower, writing to his wife on the eve of the Allied invasi...
There’s a quote from Bismarck that says, in effect, any fool can learn from experience. The trick is to learn from other people’s experience. This
There is clarity (and joy) in seeing what others can’t see, in finding grace and harmony in places others overlook. Isn’t that far better than seeing the world as some dark place?
There is always a countermove, always an escape or way through. No one said it would be easy and of course the stakes are high, but the path is there for those ready to take it.
There is always a countermove, always an escape or a way through, so there is no reason to get worked up. No one said it would be easy and, of course, the stakes are high, but the path is there for th...
The struggle against an obstacle inevitably propels the fighter to a new level of functioning. The extent of the struggle determines the extent of the growth. The obstacle is an advantage, not adversi...