The First Hard Choice
Everything is hard, but you choose your hard. You choose what’s worth it. You don’t choose whether or not you’ll suffer, but you do choose what you want to suffer for.
Brianna Wiest • 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
Every day for the rest of your life you will find yourself at one of three phases: aspiration, success, failure.
Ryan Holiday • Ego Is the Enemy
- How will you use your gifts? What choices will you make?
- Will inertia be your guide, or will you follow your passions?
- Will you follow dogma, or will you be original?
- Will you choose a life of ease, or a life of service and adventure?
- Will you wilt under criticism, or will you follow your convictions?
- Will you bluff it out when you’re wrong, or will you
Jeff Bezos • "What Matters More Than Your Talents"
the only way to live authentically is to acknowledge that you’re inevitably always making decision after decision, decisions that will shape your life in lasting ways, even though you can’t ever know in advance what the best choice might be. In fact, you’ll never know in hindsight, either – because no matter how great or appalling the consequences
... See moreOliver Burkeman • Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts
There are basically three really big decisions you make in your early life: where you live, who you’re with, and what you do.
Tim Ferriss • The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
there are hard choices to be made: which balls to let drop, which people to disappoint, which cherished ambitions to abandon, which roles to fail at.