My first collection

Lean into discomfort: When torn between choices, the path that makes you most uncomfortable is almost always the right one. Human tendency is to avoid hard decisions, so your errors will only go in one direction — toward avoidance.

Roger Federer, on 11-year-old Leo …

Do you coach him?

No. If I’m needed, I’m there. I’m happy to help, with other kids too. But someone else should do the coaching. I see myself more as a general manager with Leo. I didn’t push him for a long time. But for about a year now, since I’ve noticed he wants to play more and more, I’m trying to make that

What’s one thing today that you’re doing, or that you are focused on for your life, that you believe your future self will thank you for?

Knowing of the futility of your actions when facing adversity but continuing to try your best might be pointless, but it is also noble. And if we’re honest, pointless and noble is just another word for tennis player.

In the end, the senseless loss is not senseless at all. It only teaches us something we really don’t want anything to do with when

If you’re lucky, age happens, and when the thought drifts by that I could inject this or lift that, I think of Joan Rivers who said, “You can either look old or weird.” There’s no third option.

An individual human existence should be like a river — small at first, narrowly contained within its banks, and rushing passionately past rocks and over waterfalls. Gradually the river grows wider, the banks recede, the waters flow more quietly, and in the end, without any visible break, they become merged in the sea, and painlessly lose their

Superpowers you can choose:

- Ability to change yourself & your mind
- Not taking things personally
- Not needing to prove you're right
- Careful selection of all relationships
- Staying calm
- Being alone without being lonely
- Being ok with being uncomfortable
- Thinking for oneself

• Shane Parrish