A podium and a prison is each a place, one high and the other low, but in either place your freedom of choice can be maintained if you so wish. —EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 2.6.25
A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts, so he loses touch with reality and lives in a world of illusions.
A mind that isn’t in control of itself, that doesn’t understand its power to regulate itself, will be jerked around by external events and unquestioned impulses.
A man’s job is to make the world a better place to live in, so far as he is able—always remembering the results will be infinitesimal—and to attend to his own soul.
A growth hacker is someone who has thrown out the playbook of traditional marketing and replaced it with only what is testable, trackable, and scalable. Their tools are e-mails, pay-per-click ads, blo...
A growth hacker is someone who has thrown out the playbook of traditional marketing and replaced it with only what is testable, trackable and scalable
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, Emerson said, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
A critic of Napoleon nailed it when remarking: He despises the nation whose applause he seeks.
A MORNING RITUAL Ask yourself the following first thing in the morning: • What am I lacking in attaining freedom from passion? • What for tranquility? • What am I? A mere body, estate-holder, or reput...
1. You can create the aura of exclusivity with an invite-only feature (as Mailbox did). 2. You can create hundreds of fake profiles to make your service look more popular and active than it actually i...
Coding and technical chops are now an essential part of being a great marketer. Growth hackers are a hybrid of marketer and coder...
You’ve got to do something very difficult. Don’t focus on that. Instead break it down into pieces. Simply do what you need to do right now. And do it well. And then move on to the next thing. Follow t...
When the fire is strong, it soon appropriates to itself the matter which is heaped on it, and consumes it, and rises higher by means of this very material.
We don’t need to make decisions that force us to continue to work and work and work and drift further from study and contemplation in order to get more money to pay for the things we don’t need.
Through our perception of events, we are complicit in the creation—as well as the destruction—of every one of our obstacles. There
The world can control our bodies—we can be thrown in jail or be tossed about by the weather. But the mind? That’s ours. We must protect it. Maintain control over your mind and perceptions, they’d say....
The more you say no to the things that don’t matter, the more you can say yes to the things that do.
That it seems wrong to take it slow. This is just our impatience. This is our inability to see that burning ourselves out or blowing ourselves up isn’t going to hurry the journey along.
Take the trouble you’re dealing with and use it as an opportunity to focus on the present moment.
Storytelling in which eventually your talent becomes your identity and your accomplishments become your worth. But a story like this is never honest or helpful. In my retelling to you just now, I left...