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...
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.
Where one person sees a crisis, another can see opportunity. Where one is blinded by success, another sees reality with ruthless objectivity. Where one loses control of emotions, another can remain ca...
Where one loses control of emotions, another can remain calm.
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...
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 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...
When you are not practicing, remember, someone somewhere is practicing, and when you meet him he will win.
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,
What matters to an active man is to do the right thing; whether the right thing comes to pass should not bother him. —GOETHE
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.
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...
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 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 can seek to rationalize the worst behavior by pointing to outliers.
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...
Unhelpful perceptions can invade our minds — that sacred place of reason, action and will — and throw off our compass.
Uber, a car service start-up founded by Travis Kalanick and Garrett Camp, has been giving out free rides during Austin’s SXSW conference for several years. During a single week, thousands of potential...
Today, make sure you take a walk. And in the future, when you get stressed or overwhelmed, take a walk. When you have a tough problem to solve or a decision to make, take a walk. When you want to be c...
Today I escaped from the crush of circumstances, or better put, I threw them out, for the crush wasn’t from outside me but in my own assumptions. —MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS,