What is rare is not raw talent, skill, or even confidence, but humility, diligence, and self-awareness.
We will learn that though we think big, we must act and live small in order to accomplish what we seek. Ryan Holliday, Ego is the Enemy, pg 22
We decide what we will make of each and every situation. We decide whether we’ll break or whether we’ll resist.
There is something of a civil war going on within all of our lives. There is a recalcitrant South of our soul revolting against the North of our soul. And there is this continual struggle within the v...
Then imitate the action of the tiger; stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood. —SHAKESPEARE
Then imitate the action of the tiger; stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood. —SHAKESPEARE P
The only relationship between work and chatter is that one kills the other.
The most powerful predictor of what spreads online is anger.
The more you do, the harder you work, the luckier you seem to get.
Stop looking for angels, and start looking for angles.
Rommel, for instance, was renowned for his Fronter-führing, his sixth sense for the decisive point in battle. He had an acute ability to feel—even in the heat of the moment—the precise instance when g...
Perfectionism rarely begets perfection—only disappointment.
Of all the things that are, some are good, others bad, and yet others indifferent. The good are virtues and all that share in them; the bad are the vices and all that indulge them; the indifferent lie...
In life, there will be times when we do everything right, perhaps even perfectly. Yet the results will somehow be negative: failure, disrespect, jealousy, or even a resounding yawn from the world. Dep...
In an age of images and entertainment, in an age of instant emotional gratification, we neither seek nor want honesty or reality. Reality is complicated. Reality is boring. We are incapable or unwilli...
For any project, you must know what you are doing—and what you are not doing. You must also know who you are doing it for—and who you are not doing it for—to be able to say: THIS and for THESE PEOPLE....
Every conspiracy is a story of people. The protagonists of this one are two of the most distinctly unique personalities of their time, Nick Denton and Peter Thiel. Two characters who, not unlike the c...
Even one minute without playing the blame game is progress in the art of living.
Especially when the leaders in your supposed community make it clear that that is exactly how they feel about you when it comes down to the crunch. But no, ignore that. It is in this moment that we mu...
Each would collapse beneath the process. We’ve just wrongly assumed that it has to happen all at once, and we give up at the thought of it. We are A-to-Z thinkers, fretting about A, obsessing over Z,...