The majority of my generation decides to move back in with their parents after college. Unemployment, for them, is twice the national average. According to one 2011 study by the University of Michigan...
The implications of our obstacle are theoretical—they exist in the past and the future. We live in the moment. And the more we embrace that, the easier the obstacle will be to face and move.
The implications of our obstacle are theoretical -- they exist in the past and the future. We live in the moment. And the more we embrace that, the easier the obstacle will be to face and move. You ca...
The great strategist Saul Alinsky believed that if you push a negative hard enough and deep enough it will break through into its counterside.
The fundamental purpose of most people at Facebook working on data is to influence and alter people’s moods and behaviour. They are doing it all the time to make you like stories more, to click on mor...
Seneca put it best when he said, Life is long if you know how to use it. Sadly, most people don’t—they waste the life they’ve been given. Only when it is too late do they try to compensate for that wa...
See things for what they are. Do what we can. Endure and bear what we must.
Respect the craft and make something beautiful.
Reminding ourselves each day that we will die helps us treat our time as a gift. Someone on a deadline doesn’t indulge himself with attempts at the impossible, he doesn’t waste time complaining about...
Remind yourself how pointless it is to rage and fight and try to one-up those around you. Go and put yourself in touch with the infinite, and end your conscious separation from the world. Reconcile yo...
Remember, then, if you deem what is by nature slavish to be free, and what is not your own to be yours, you will be shackled and miserable, blaming both gods and other people. But if you deem as your...
Remember that today when you try to extend your reach outward—that it’s much better and more appropriately directed inward.
Remember that this moment is not your life, it’s just a moment in your life. Focus on what is in front of you, right now. Ignore what it represents or it means or why it happened to you. There is plen...
Reflect, then, he said, that your ancestors set up those trophies, not that you may gaze at them in wonder, but that you may also imitate the virtues of the men who set them up.
Problems are rarely as bad as we think—or rather, they are precisely as bad as we think. It’s
Prefiero la disciplina del conocimiento a la anarquía de la ignorancia. Perseguimos el conocimiento de la misma forma en que un cerdo persigue trufas. —David Ogilvy
Por lo tanto, las tres partes en que está organizado este libro son: Ambición, Éxito y Fracaso.
Placed in some situation that seems unchangeable and undeniably negative, we can turn it into a learning experience, a humbling experience, a chance to provide comfort to others.
Philosophy's true use - An operating system for life's difficulties and hardships.
Peter thought he’d be greeted as a liberator, that Gawker was a scourge that once eliminated would allow for open, collaborative discussion. If anything, the opposite has happened. The candidate he he...