You realize that you will never be the best-looking person in the room. You’ll never be the smartest person in the room. You’ll never be the most educated, the most well-versed. You can never compete...
What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for a worthwhile goal, a freely chosen task. —VIKTOR E. FRANKL, Holocaust survivor; author of Man’s Search for...
What are three tests or practices from the military that civilians could use to help develop mental toughness?: STAN: The first is to push yourself harder than you believe you’re capable of. You’ll fi...
Thoreau writes, ‘The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure. There will be a wide margin for...
The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything. Substitute master learner for novel, and you have my philosophy...
The decent method you follow is better than the perfect method you quit.
The concept of lifestyle design as a replacement for multi-staged career planning is sound. It’s more flexible and allows you to test different lifestyles without committing to a 10- or 20-year retire...
The Happiest Baby on the Block by Harvey Karp. If you want to be a hands-on parent and also have some version of a career, this book is gold. I usually send it with another book called The Sleepeasy S...
THE DANGER OF BIG QUESTIONS Most of the time, What should I do with my life? is a terrible question. What should I do with this tennis serve? What should I do with this line at Starbucks? What should...
Second, you must have a direct relationship with your fans. That is, they must pay you directly. You get to keep all of their support, unlike the small percentage of their fees you might get from a mu...
Scott me ayudó a reorientar mi atención hacia los sistemas, por usar su propio lenguaje, en lugar de concentrarme en las metas.
Place an ice pack on the back of the neck or upper trapezius area for 20–30 minutes, preferably in the evening, when insulin sensitivity is lowest. I place a towel on the couch while writing or watchi...
Piensa en la edad que tienes ahora y en la versión de ti mismo dentro de diez años.
Pero démosle la vuelta para que no parezca tan degradante: No se trata de besarle el culo a nadie. No se trata de hacer quedar bien a otros. Se trata de dar el apoyo necesario para que los demás lo ha...
People look for retreats for themselves, in the country, by the coast, or in the hills. There is nowhere that a person can find a more peaceful and trouble-free retreat than in his own mind. . . . So...
Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center. Big, undreamed-of things—the people on the edge see them first. —Kurt Vonnegut Routine, in an intelligent man, is a sign of a...
Our sprint coach, Barry Ross, has a most unusual zoo. In fact, he can engineer mutants at will. His best female distance runner has deadlifted 415 lbs at a body weight of 132 lbs. His youngest male li...
One evening, intending to ask my host mother to wake me the next morning (okosu), I ask her to violently rape me (okasu). She is very confused.
On my coffee table at home, I have a piece of driftwood. Its sole purpose is to display a quote by Anaïs Nin, which I see every day: Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. It’s a shor...
Normalmente nunca quieres formar parte de una tendencia popular. No quieres ser la cuarta empresa que vende comida para mascotas por internet a finales de la década de 1990.