When you want to be creative, take a walk. When you need to get some air, take a walk. When you have a phone call to make, take a walk. When you need some exercise, take a long walk. When you have a m...
When you worry, ask yourself, ‘What am I choosing to not see right now?’ What important things are you missing because you chose worry over introspection, alertness or wisdom? Another way of putting i...
Where one is blinded by success, another sees reality with ruthless objectivity.
Where one loses control of emotions, another can remain calm.
Wherever there is a human being, we have an opportunity for kindness. —SENECA, ON THE HAPPY LIFE, 24.2–3
Whether you’re currently a marketing executive or a college grad about to enter the field—the first growth hackers have pioneered a new way. Some of their strategies are incredibly technical and compl...
While you’re sleeping, traveling, attending meetings, or messing around online, the same thing is happening to you. You’re going soft. You’re not aggressive enough. You’re not pressing ahead.
Why bother getting mad at causes and forces far bigger than us? Why do we take these things personally? After all, external events are not sentient beings—they cannot respond to our shouts and cries—a...
With patience and resources, Mr. A would come to say often on his weekly calls with Peter, we can do almost anything. Tolstoy had a motto for Field Marshal Mikhail Kutuzov in War and Peace— Patience a...
Without virtue and training, Aristotle observed, it is hard to bear the results of good fortune suitably.
Work is finding yourself alone at the track when the weather kept everyone else indoors. Work is pushing through the pain and crappy first drafts and prototypes. It is ignoring whatever plaudits other...
Would you have a great empire? Rule over yourself. —PUBLIUS SYRUS W
Yes, it would feel much better in the moment to be angry, to be aggrieved, to be depressed or heartbroken. When injustice or the capriciousness of fate are inflicted on someone, the normal reaction is...
Yet far too many people set out to produce something that, if they were really honest with themselves, is only marginally better or different from what already exists. Instead of being bold, brash, or...
You can always remind yourself: I am in control, not my emotions. I see what’s really going on here. I’m not going to get excited or upset.
You can take the bite out of any tough situation by bringing a calm mind to it. By considering it and meditating on it in advance.
You could say that failure always arrives uninvited, but through our ego, far too many of us allow it to stick around.
You don't convince people by challenging their longest and most firmly held opinions. You find common ground and work from there.
You don’t convince people by challenging their longest and most firmly held opinions. You find common ground and work from there. Or you look for leverage to make them listen. Or you create an alterat...
You must build up your life action by action, and be content if each one achieves its goal as far as possible—and no one can keep you from this. But there will be some external obstacle! Perhaps, but...
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