Ego is the Enemy: The Fight to Master Our Greatest Opponent

“imaginary audience.”

According to Seneca, the Greek word euthymia is one we should think of often: it is the sense of our own path and how to stay on it without getting distracted by all the others that intersect it. In other words,

Play for the name on the front of the jersey, he says, and they’ll remember the name on the back.

She wasn’t driven by passion, but by reason.

Failure and adversity are relative and unique to each of us. Almost without exception, this is what life does: it takes our plans and dashes them to pieces. Sometimes once, sometimes lots of times.

Don’t let stubbornness make a bad situation worse.

Doing great work is a struggle. It’s draining, it’s demoralizing, it’s frightening—not always, but it can feel that way when

A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts, so he loses touch with reality and lives in a world of illusions. — ALAN WATTS

Clear the path for the people above you and you will eventually create a path for yourself.

We can name ourselves CEO of our exists-only-on-paper company.