The only true voyage would be not to travel through a hundred different lands with the same pair of eyes, but to see the same land through a hundred different pairs of eyes. —MARCEL PROUST
The goal is not to simply eliminate the bad, which does nothing more than leave you with a vacuum, but to pursue and experience the best in the world.
The future is already here—it’s just unevenly distributed.—William Gibson
The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation...
The easiest way to avoid being overwhelmed is to create positive constraints: put up walls that dramatically restrict whatever it is that you’re trying to do.
The difference between winning and losing is most often not quitting. This famous line from Walt Disney on willpower cannot be more true
The best way I can describe the feeling is a Finnish word, sisu—the mental strength to continue to try even after you feel you’ve reached the limits of your abilities. I don’t think failure is sometim...
That’s a simple example, you say, but what if you need to learn to do something your friends haven’t done? Like, say, sell a book to the world’s largest publisher as a first-time author? Funny you sho...
Tara by Maria Popova (page 406), who said, [Tara] has changed my life, perhaps more profoundly than anybody in my life. I then read Tara’s first book, Radical Acceptance,
Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu (5 mentions) Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand (4) Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari (4) Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse (4) The 4-Hour Workweek by Tim Ferriss (4) The Checklist Manifesto by A...
Success should not be measured by financial gain; true success is doing something you love for a living.
Stop wishing and start doing.
Stay humble or get humbled.
Sooner or later, parents have to take responsibility for putting their kids into a system that is indebting them and teaching them to be cogs in an economy that doesn’t want cogs anymore. Parents get...
Sometimes, you think you have to figure out your life’s purpose, but you really just need some macadamia nuts and a cold fucking shower.
Sometimes Cookies Are the Best Medicine For hospice patients at death’s door, big existential conversations aren’t always the needed medicine. One oddly powerful alternative is baking cookies together...
Si esto es un hombre y La tregua (Club Círculo de Lectores, 2004), de Primo Levi,
Sharpening your logical and practical mental toolbox is not being an atheist or unspiritual.
Self-esteem is just the reputation that you have with yourself.
Scott believes there are six elements of humor: naughty, clever, cute, bizarre, mean, and recognizable. You have to have at least two dimensions to succeed.