Get Out of My Head: Creating Modern Clarity With Stoic Wisdom

“Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.”

“Waste no more time arguing what a good [person] should be. Be one.”

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”

quote from Angela Davis: “I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.”

we can control our own thoughts and actions—and nothing more.

Things in our control are opinion, pursuit, desire, aversion, and, in a word, whatever are our own actions. Things not in our control are body, property, reputation, command, and, in one word, whatever are not our actions.

To identify your own gaps in words and action, and to close them, use the Bridging the Gap exercise. a.State the value. b.Identify the conflicting action. c.Find a circumstance in which you have matched a value and action in the past. d.Map how to bridge the gap between the value and action. e.Track and refine as needed.

When you are a leader, people won’t always do as you say, but they will always do as you do.

Talk is cheap. Action is everything, and the only thing that matters.