No matter what you tell the world or tell yourself, your actions reveal your real values. Your actions show you what you actually want.

“Yes, I can ignore what you’re saying and just look at your actions. Our actions always reveal our real values.”

Refuse almost everything. Do almost nothing. But the things you do, do them all the way.

Art is useless by definition. If it was useful, it would be a tool.

Old opinions shouldn’t define who we are in the future.

Before you start something, think of the ways it could end. Sometimes the smart choice is to say no to the whole game.

But if a graduate’s time could be worth $200 per hour, yet they’re doing work that locals could do better for $10 per hour (and without airfare and hotels), then they’re actually doing a disservice to others. (For more thoughts on this, find two articles online: “Efficient Charity: Do Unto Others” and “The Reductive Seduction of Other People’s

And then if you stopped doing all these things you’re doing just for the money or the attention, what would be left? Who would you be if you didn’t do these things? If you were completely satiated, then what? After an understandable period of relaxing, what would you pursue?

success comes from doing, not declaring.