To one person a situation may be negative. To another, that same situation may be positive. Nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so, as Shakespeare put it.
To perceive what others see as negative, as something to be approached rationally, clearly, and, most important, as an opportunity—not as something to fear or bemoan.
To quote Fight Club again, We buy things we don’t need, to impress people we don’t like.
To see an obstacle as a challenge, to make the best of it anyway, that is also a choice—a choice that is up to us. Will I have a chance, Coach? Ta eph’hemin? Is this up to me?
Unhelpful perceptions can invade our minds — that sacred place of reason, action and will — and throw off our compass.
We are prepared for failure and ready for success.
We can channel this, too. We needn’t scramble like we’re so often inclined to do when some difficult task sits in front of us. Remember the first time you saw a complicated algebra equation? It was a...
We can seek to rationalize the worst behavior by pointing to outliers.
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 perspective...
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 must give up many things to which we are addicted, considering them to be good. Otherwise, courage will vanish, which should continually test itself. Greatness of soul will be lost, which can’t sta...
We must understand that we are a small part of an interconnected universe. On top of all this, we have to build an organization and a system around what we do—one that is about the work and not about...
We will learn that though we think big, we must act and live small in order to accomplish what we seek. Because we will be action and education focused, and forgo validation and status, our ambition w...
Welcome to the source of most of our problems down here on Earth. Everything is planned down to the letter, then something goes wrong and the first thing we do is trade in our plan for a good ol’ emot...
What matters is that you learn how to manage yourself and others, before your industry eats you alive. Micromanagers are egotists who can’t manage others and they quickly get overloaded. So do the cha...
What matters is that you learn how to manage yourself and others, before your industry eats you alive. Micromanagers are egotists who can’t manage others and they quickly get overloaded.
What matters to an active man is to do the right thing; whether the right thing comes to pass should not bother him. —GOETHE
When I see an anxious person, I ask myself, what do they want? For if a person wasn’t wanting something outside of their own control, why would they be stricken by anxiety? —EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES,
When it comes to money, where we feel our clear interest, we have an entire art where the tester uses many means to discover the worth . . . just as we give great attention to judging things that migh...
When you have a goal, obstacles are actually teaching you how to get where you want to go—carving you a path.Excerpt From: Ryan Holiday. The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials int...
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