He would make much of his fortune during these market fluctuations—because he could see while others could not. This insight lives on today in Warren Buffet’s famous adage to be fearful when others ar...
Hello, shitstorm of press. Hello, number one on the New York Times bestseller list. I pulled this off with no connections, no money, and no footsteps to follow.
Help your fellow humans thrive and survive, contribute your little bit to the universe before it swallows you up, and be happy with that. Lend a hand to others. Be strong for them, and it will make yo...
Heraclitus called self-deception an awful disease and eyesight a lying sense. —DIOGENES LAERTIUS, LIVES OF THE EMINENT PHILOSOPHERS,
Here’s a way to think about what the masses regard as being ‘good’ things. If you would first start by setting your mind upon things that are unquestionably good—wisdom, self-control, justice, courage...
His job was to set the priorities, to think big picture, and then trust the people beneath him to do the jobs they were hired for.
How does what you do every day reflect, in some way, the values you claim to care about?
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 you do anything is how you can do everything. We can always act right.
How you do anything is how you can do everything.
How you handle even minor adversity might seem like nothing, but, in fact, it reveals everything.
Humans are still primed to detect threats and dangers that no longer exist—
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 know you had nothing to do with the injustice that brought me to this jail, so I’m willing to stay here until I get out. But I will not, under any circumstances, be treated like a prisoner—because I...
I will keep constant watch over myself and—most usefully—will put each day up for review. For this is what makes us evil—that none of us looks back upon our own lives. We reflect upon only that which...
IN THE INTRODUCTION I EXPLAINED A SCAM I CALL trading up the chain. It’s a strategy I developed that manipulates the media through recursion. I can turn nothing into something by placing a story with...
If Perception and Action were the disciplines of the mind and the body, then Will is the discipline of the heart and the soul.
If a person gave away your body to some passerby, you’d be furious. Yet you hand over your mind to anyone who comes along, so they may abuse you, leaving it disturbed and troubled—have you no shame in...
If action is what we do when we still have some agency over our situation, the will is what we depend on when agency has all but disappeared.
If someone asks you how to write your name, would you bark out each letter? And if they get angry, would you then return the anger? Wouldn’t you rather gently spell out each letter for them? So then,...
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