When you have a goal, obstacles are actually teaching you how to get where you want to go—carving you a path. The Things which hurt, Benjamin Franklin wrote, instruct.
When you’re at your wit’s end, straining and straining with all your might, when people tell you you look like you might pop a vein . . . Take a step back, then go around the problem. Find some levera...
When, as the football coach Bill Walsh explained, self-confidence becomes arrogance, assertiveness becomes obstinacy, and self-assurance becomes reckless abandon. This is the ego, as the writer Cyril...
Whenever someone has done wrong by you, immediately consider what notion of good or evil they had in doing it. For when you see that, you’ll feel compassion, instead of astonishment or rage. For you m...
Whenever you get an impression of some pleasure, as with any impression, guard yourself from being carried away by it, let it await your action, give yourself a pause. After that, bring to mind both t...
Where is Good? In our reasoned choices. Where is Evil? In our reasoned choices. Where is that which is neither Good nor Evil? In the things outside of our own reasoned choice. —EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES,...
Wherever you are, whatever you’re doing, your worst enemy already lives inside you: your ego.
Whether what you’re going through is your fault or your problem doesn’t matter, because it’s yours to deal with right now.
Whether you live in the snake pit of Washington, D.C., work among the materialism of Wall Street, or grew up in a closed-minded small town, you can live well. Plenty of others have.
While others are excited or afraid, we will remain calm and imperturbable. We will see things simply and straightforwardly, as they truly are—neither good nor bad. This will be an incredible advantage...
With their aggression, intensity, self-absorption, and endless self-promotion, our competitors don’t realize how they jeopardize their own efforts (to say nothing of their sanity). We will challenge t...
Working on improving your product until it screams Share me with everyone you know—that’s less fun than buying a back-page ad that everyone (who still reads newspapers) will see.
Would you have a great empire? Rule over yourself.
You can only see this if you want to see it.
You know you’re not the only one who has to accept things you don’t necessarily like, right? It’s part of the human condition. If someone we knew took traffic signals personally, we would judge them i...
You rush in to stamp out the sparks and end up fanning them into flames. This is the risk.
You shouldn’t give circumstances the power to rouse anger, for they don’t care at all. —MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 7.38
You’ll have far better luck toughening yourself up than you ever will trying to take the teeth out of a world that is—at best—indifferent to your existence. Whether we were born weak like Roosevelt or...
You’ve got your mission, whatever it is. To accomplish it, like the rest of us you’re in the pinch between the way you wish things were and the way they actually are (which always seem to be a disaste...
Desapego es una especie de antídoto natural contra el ego. Es fácil sentirse emocionalmente comprometido y enamorado del trabajo propio. Todos los narcisistas pueden hacerlo. Lo raro no es el talento...
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