Is the sense of our own path and how to stay on it without getting distracted by all the others that intersect it. In other words, it’s not about beating the other guy. It’s not about having more than...
It’s really just taking action—whether that’s approaching someone you’re intimidated by or deciding to finally crack a book on a subject you need to learn.
Just begin the work. The rest follows.
Learn how to limit our passions and their control over our lives.
Magine if for every person you met, you thought of some way to help them, something you could do for them? And you looked at it in a way that entirely benefited them and not you. The cumulative effect...
No one is truly successful because they are delusional, self-absorbed,
No podemos trabajar con otra gente si hemos levantado barreras a nuestro alrededor. No podemos mejorar el mundo si no lo entendemos ni nos entendemos a nosotros mismos.
Or possibly thriving because of—them.
Physically loose and mentally tight.
Self-confidence becomes arrogance, assertiveness becomes obstinacy, and self-assurance becomes reckless abandon. This
Shouldn’t we be just as invested in building ourselves as we would be to any company?
Slowly building muscle and strengthening his upper body against his weak lungs and for the future. By his early twenties the battle against asthma was essentially over, he’d worked—almost literally—th...
Social media isn’t a set of tools to allow humans to communicate with humans. It is a set of embedding mechanisms to allow technologies to use humans to communicate with each other, in an orgy of self...
That what matters most is not what these obstacles are but how we see them,
The more you say no to the things that don’t matter, the more you can say yes to the things that do.
The old Celtic saying tells us, See much, study much, suffer much, that is the path to wisdom.
The strength to endure, contextualize, and derive meaning from the obstacles we cannot simply overcome (which, as it happens, is the way of flipping the unflippable). Even
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....
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.
We shouldn’t forget at each moment to ask, is this one of the unnecessary things?
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