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

“Owners are different from tenants.”

Critics, to steal a phrase from elsewhere, “you will always have with you.”

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.

“Receive without pride, let go without attachment.”

There is no outside white knight or savior who can or will magically hand you the results you seek. Only you can do that.

Perfect is the enemy of good, often serving as an excuse for not doing something at all rather than a motivating force to do something better.

this tendency to “look at whether the result was good or bad to figure out if the decision was good or bad” is so common that it has a name: resulting.

Redefining wrong allows us to let go of all the anguish that comes from getting a bad result. But it also means we must redefine “right.”

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