Aishwarya Goel

The other thing: your shticks have to be visible, else they might as well not exist. And if you don’t define them yourself, the world will do it for you. When attention is currency and visibility is constant, your shticks are your anchors.

“If you only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier than other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.”

Meditation is also the process of moving up abstraction layers. From living inside of your thoughts to observing your thoughts

Whatever you say should also be at least somewhat novel to you, however old you are. It's not an essay otherwise, because an essay is something you write to figure something out. But whatever you figure out will presumably be more of a surprise to younger readers than it is to you.

As much as we know about how crazy, weird, talented, and insightful people can be, we are blind to perhaps 99.99999999% of it. The most prolific over-sharers disclose maybe a thousandth of one percent of what they’ve been through and what they’re thinking.

It’s choosing a frame that doesn’t turn every interaction into a drama where someone always has to be wrong.