Motivational

If you do not actively choose a better way, then society, culture, and the general inertia of life will push you into a worse way. The default is distraction, not improvement.

Novelist Ernest Hemingway on acting with confidence while living with humility:

“Be humble after but not during the action.”

There is too much bad news to justify complacency. There is too much good news to justify despair.

Roman scholar and philosopher Marcus Tullius Cicero on the value of making numerous attempts:

“For who is there who, shooting all day, will not sometimes hit the mark?”

The key is to enjoy hanging out on the edge. That is, you find it interesting to attempt things one step beyond where you are right now. It could be the edge of your ability or the edge of your knowledge or the edge of your network.

If you reach — but just a little — and you do it every week, then you’ll take on challenges that are manageable enough... See more

Poet and novelist Charles Bukowski on forging your own reality:

"I was waiting for something extraordinary to happen but as the years wasted on nothing ever did unless I caused it."

Two simple rules:

1. You get better at what you practice.


2. Everything is practice.

Look around and you may be surprised by what people are “practicing” each day. If you consider each moment a repetition, what are most people training for all day long?

Many people are practicing getting mad on social media. Others are practicing the fine art of noticing how... See more

You can lose yourself one small compromise at a time.

You can transform yourself one small win at a time.

You don’t have to be good at everything, you just need to double down on what you’re naturally suited for.