Amelia loves doing training runs in the rain and cold, as she knows her competition is probably opting out. This is an example of rehearsing the worst-case scenario to become more resilient
Always make new mistakes! I actually get royalties of about $50 per year from Quotable Quotes for this one.
All those artists and writers who bemoan how hard the work is, and oh, how tedious the creative process, and oh, what a tortured genius they are. Don’t buy into it. . . . As if difficulty and struggle...
All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it’s impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the s...
Alex Honnold, free solo climbing phenom: The Last of the Mohicans soundtrack Rolf Potts, author of Vagabonding and others: ambitones like The Zen Effect in the key of C for 30 minutes, made by Rolfe K...
Absurdism is unreasonably effective because it apparently has very little to do with any setting in particular, but still (I claim) ends up useful in practice in lots of settings. This is especially n...
A) You should taste the food as you go, which a surprisingly small number of people do; and B) salt and olive oil actually are cheating and they’re secret weapons and they always work. Audiogon
A little part of me dies every time someone tells me they’ve taken a job as a steppingstone to something else, when they clearly aren’t invested in it. You have one life to live. Time is valuable. If...
A great amount of software will make outbound connections to the Internet, typically for legitimate purposes, though not necessarily. If you wish to prevent or at least learn when an application is do...
36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction by Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
2,000–3,000 PEOPLE, NOT GENERAL FAME This is one of the messages Eric burned into my brain last year, and it’s guided many decisions since. We were sitting in a large soaking tub talking about the wor...
18. Notice how I take you out of the sentence to avoid finger-pointing, even though it’s implicit. Normally, you make priorities clear sounds like a backhanded insult. If this is a significant other,...
10 por ciento mayor, no suele resultarte cien veces más difícil, pero la recompensa sí es cien veces mayor.»
Who do you think of when you hear the word successful? The first people who come to mind are the real heroes of Task Unit Bruiser: Marc Lee, first SEAL killed in Iraq. Mike Monsoor, second SEAL killed...
Do you have any quotes that you live your life by or think of often? [Among others] The future is already here—it’s just unevenly distributed.—William Gibson If we continue to develop our technology w...
Únete a gente y a organizaciones que ya tengan éxito, funde tu identidad con la suya, y haz crecer ambas a la vez. Desde luego, tiene más encanto perseguir tu propia gloria,
¿Qué coste tendrá cada uno de ellos para ti y para la gente que te importa dentro de uno, tres, cinco y diez años? Míralo, óyelo, siéntelo.
¿Qué coste te ha supuesto cada creencia o convencimiento en el pasado y qué coste le ha supuesto a la gente que has amado en el pasado?
«¿Qué es lo peor que podría pasar si dejara de hacer lo que estoy considerando?
«¿Por qué hacer el esfuerzo de explicar por qué algo no sirve si los demás no han hecho los deberes para comprobar si sirve?»