#tenets-to-live-by

Six years ago I celebrated my 68th birthday by gifting my children 68 bits of advice I wished I had gotten when I was their age. Every birthday after that I added more bits of advice for them until I had a whole book of bits. That book was published a year ago as Excellent Advice for Living , which many people tell me they read very slowly, just... See more

Learn to interrogate yourself. This is not the same as doubting your abilities. Never doubt that you are capable of just about anything, whether from willful action or under stress. But question what you think, why, follow alternative lines of thought. For yourself & for society

• About 99% of the time, the right time is right now.

• No one is as impressed with your possessions as you are.

• Dont ever work for someone you dont want to become.

• Cultivate 12 people who love you, because they are worth more than 12 million people who like you.

• Dont keep making the same mistakes; try to make new mistakes.

• If you stop to listen

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“Fidelity to daily tasks” is Albert Borgmann’s line, quoted in the same post I linked to a few lines up.