Lines: A Beginner’s Guide
Waiting Here’s a quiz. Which is longer—15 minutes of waiting for someone who is late, or 15 minutes of keeping others waiting? Objectively, it’s the same period of time, but when you have managed to successfully negotiate life on your end and have arrived for your appointment on time (leaving countless other things undone in the process), you can b
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If someone we knew took traffic signals personally, we would judge them insane. Yet this is exactly what life is doing to us. It tells us to come to a stop here. Or that some intersection is blocked or that a particular road has been rerouted through an inconvenient detour. We can’t argue or yell this problem away. We simply accept it.
Ryan Holiday • The Obstacle is the Way: The Ancient Art of Turning Adversity to Advantage
Are you a habitual “waiter”? How much of your life do you spend waiting? What I call “small-scale waiting” is waiting in line at the post office, in a traffic jam, at the airport, or waiting for someone to arrive, to finish work, and so on. “Large-scale waiting” is waiting for the next vacation, for a better job, for the children to grow up, for a
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