Getting fired, despite sometimes coming as a surprise and leaving you scrambling to recover, is often a godsend. Most people aren’t lucky enough to get fired and die a slow spiritual death over 30-40...
• Must-watch documentary The Gatekeepers (2012)
You can’t blame your boss for not giving you the support you need. Plenty of people will say, ‘It’s my boss’s fault.’ No, it’s actually your fault because you haven’t educated him, you haven’t influen...
Things in Excess Become Their Opposite. It is possible to have too much of a good thing. In excess, most endeavors and possessions take on the characteristics of their opposite. Thus: Pacifists become...
The minimum effective dose (MED) is defined simply: the smallest dose that will produce a desired outcome.
Maria Popova
Leonard Cohen, even though when I met him I was too tongue-tied to say anything. Anyway, I’ve given away a number of copies of his Book of Longing, since it articulates a sense of the compassionate
It’s lonely at the top. Ninety-nine percent of people in the world are convinced they are incapable of achieving great things, so they aim for the mediocre. The level of competition is thus fiercest f...
If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.—Epictetus
Because being wrong is just an opportunity to find more of the truth.
• Eat decent quantities of fat at each larger meal. Saturated fat is fine if meat is untreated with antibiotics and hormones. • Spend at least 30 minutes eating lunch and dinner. Breakfasts can be sma...
Principio sencillo: Si no puedes ser el primero en una categoría, crea una nueva en la que puedas ser el primero.
El éxito de una persona en la vida suele poder medirse por la cantidad de conversaciones incómodas
Case—a tolerable and comfortable existence doing something unfulfilling. The last is most common and most insidious.
Being able to view things as they are as opposed to what everybody says about them,
What we really need to do, to design, is look at the extremes. The weakest, or the person with arthritis, or the athlete, or the strongest, the fastest person, because if we understand what the extrem...
To find the right things, we’ll need to go to the garden.
The worst that could happen wasn’t crashing and burning, it was accepting terminal boredom as a tolerable status quo.
The second strategy is fairly easy. Everyone has at least a few areas in which they could be in the top 25% with some effort. In my case, I can draw better than most people, but I’m hardly an artist....
The Strategy of Conflict by Thomas C. Schelling The Science of Words by George A. Miller Retreat from Doomsday by John Mueller The Nurture Assumption by Judith Rich Harris The Evolution of Human Sexua...