Life Lessons

In my whole life I’ve never been good at something I wasn’t very interested in. It just doesn’t work. There’s no substitute for strong interest.

— Charlie Munger

Nobody tells a better story than a person wanting to borrow money.

The ultimate outcome in any given situation is governed far more by the actions that follow a decision than the decision itself.

—Sahil Bloom

Tact is not the quality by which you often please, but by which you seldom offend.

— Alice Wellington Rollins

 Night owls may have sharper minds than early risers. If the birds are chirping right now, you’re about to feel a bit offended. In a study of 26,000 people in the UK, those who stayed up late showed “superior cognitive function” across tests of intelligence, reasoning, reaction time, and memory than people who wake up early, according to

What Kind of Game are You Playing

In the 1999 tennis book, Extraordinary Tennis for the Ordinary Tennis Player, author Simon Ramo broke down the difference between amateur and professional tennis, writing that they were two different types of games:

• Amateur tennis is a Loser's Game: 80% of points are lost on unforced errors. You win by avoiding error

“You can’t change your life overnight, but you can change your direction.”

—James Clear

The Loudest Alarm is Probably False

A curious thing I've noticed: among the friends whose inner monologues I get to hear, the most self-sacrificing ones are frequently worried they are being too selfish, the loudest ones are constantly afraid they are not being heard, the most introverted ones are regularly terrified that they're claiming more than

The greatest sign of an ill-regulated mind is to believe things because you wish them to be so.

~ Louis Pasteur

Listen up, guys: this is good [drawing a question mark on the board]... and this is bad [drawing an exclamation point].

Good is doubt, when you meet someone who doubts, relax, it means they're a good person, it means they're democratic, tolerant.

But when you meet these ones [pointing at the exclamation point], those who are certain, with unwaverin