Epicurus, Seneca, Marcus Aurelius, Plato, Michel de Montaigne, Arthur Schopenhauer, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Bertrand Russell.
Doing something unimportant well does not make it important. 2. Requiring a lot of time does not make a task important.
The tricky thing about life is, on the one hand having the courage to enter into things that are unfamiliar, but also having the wisdom to stop exploring when you’ve found something worth sticking aro...
If we’re serious all the time, we’ll wear out before we get the truly serious stuff done.
Adopta el hábito más importante de quienes destacan y disfrutan con ello: actuar.
You’re not responsible for the hand of cards you were dealt. You’re responsible for maxing out what you were given.
You don’t succeed because you have no weaknesses; you succeed because you find your unique strengths and focus on developing habits around them. . . . Everyone is fighting a battle [and has fought bat...
You are forced to shed artificial constraints, like shedding a skin, to realize that you had the ability to renegotiate your reality all along. It just takes practice.
With a decrease in the number of pirates, there has been an increase in global warming over the same period. Therefore, global warming is caused by a lack of pirates. Even more compelling: Somalia has...
When you have the best and tastiest ingredients, you can cook very simply and the food will be extraordinary because it tastes like what it is. And: Good cooking is no mystery. You don’t need years of...
What would you do if there were no way you could fail? If you were 10 times smarter than the rest of the world? Create two timelines—6 months and 12 months—and list up to five things you dream of havi...
What is the book (or books) you’ve given most as a gift, and why? Or what are one to three books that have greatly influenced your life? Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl. He introduces the...
WHEN 99% OF PEOPLE DOUBT YOU, YOU’RE EITHER GRAVELY WRONG OR ABOUT TO MAKE HISTORY.
To have an uncommon lifestyle, you need to develop the uncommon habit of making decisions, both for yourself and for others.
To boil water, the MED is 212°F (100°C) at standard air pressure. Boiled is boiled. Higher temperatures will not make it more boiled. Higher temperatures just consume more resources that could be used...
To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.—Elbert Hubbard
The aura of exclusivity is really code for bad atmosphere.
The more absurd, the more impossible the question, the more profound the answers. Take, for instance, a question that serial billionaire Peter Thiel likes to ask himself and others: If you have a 10-y...
The moment you start thinking someone else's gain is your loss, you limit yourself by thinking in terms of competition and shortages.
The disease of our times is that we live on the surface. We’re like the Platte River, a mile wide and an inch deep. I always say, If you want to become a billionaire, invent something that will allow...