Life Advice

Tips for happiness, family, networking etc.

"Work is endless. Exercise is endless. Parenting is endless. Same with marriage, writing, investing, creating, and more. You get to choose the parts of your life, but many of the important things in life cannot be "finished."

Do not approach an endless game with a finite mindset. The objective is not to be done, but to settle into a daily lifestyle

"The truest form of intelligence is designing the life you want to live."

"Compete externally and you compare.

Compete internally and you improve."

“Mediocrity is invisible until passion shines a light on it.”

Nike founder Phil Knight on balance:

"My life was out of balance, sure, but I didn't care. In fact, I wanted even more imbalance. ... If my life was to be all work and no play, I wanted my work to be play."

Focus means choosing what doesn't matter.

What you refuse to do determines what you can do.

In an age when outputs multiply endlessly and meaning feels scarce, where a million artificial distractions compete for our attention all at once, the hunger for real environments - for truth we can touch and feel - will only grow.

People will not starve for things to do. They will starve for places to be, to belong, to become.

Isaac French • Tweet

Classical thinkers from Aristotle to Aquinas understood this clearly. We become what we attend to. Environments shape habits, and habits shape character. The places we live, work, and socialize are constantly making us into certain kinds of people, whether we notice or not.

Isaac French • Tweet

1. Your identity is rented, not owned.

Nothing is permanent in this world. You don’t deserve it today because you had it yesterday. You have to do the thing. Chop wood, carry water. Show up and do the work. Rent is due every single day.

I can’t call myself a writer if I don’t write. I can’t call myself a leader if I don’t lead. I can’t call myself a