“What would you like me to do?” This forces them to consider options and think instead of just vent.

People handle having lots of choices in two ways: by “maximizing” or “satisficing.” Maximizing is exploring all the options, weighing them, and trying to get the best. Satisficing is thinking about what you need and picking the first thing that fulfills those needs. Satisficing is living by “good enough.”

The same traits that make people a nightmare to deal with can also make them the people who change the world.

“Without order, we have anarchy, and when we have anarchy, people die here.”

Everything we do in life is a trade-off. Choosing to do one thing means not doing something else.

Research by Gallup shows that the more hours per day you spend doing what you’re good at, the less stressed you feel and the more you laugh, smile, and feel you’re being treated with respect.

while nefarious groups certainly have negative effects on society, the order they enforce has positive externalities as well. The presence of yakuza in Japanese cities is negatively correlated with civil lawsuits.

Axelrod offers four lessons we can learn from TFT’s success: DON’T BE ENVIOUS Again, most of life isn’t zero-sum. Just because someone else wins, that doesn’t mean you lose. Sometimes that person needs the fruit and you need the peel. And sometimes the strategy that makes you lose small on this round makes you win big on the next. Here’s the crazy

Success doesn’t have to be something you see only on TV. It’s less about being perfect than knowing what you’re best at and being properly aligned with your context.