Wisdom
Regarding "one of those days", when everything seems to go wrong: most of these aren't really all that bad, we just make them that way by noticing the everyday negative things more, and by creating opportunities for entropy to manifest simply by expecting it to. Most of "those" days can be conquered by doggedly refusing to accept a whole day
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Talent and potential mean nothing if you can't consistently do the boring things when you don't feel like doing them.
Brain Food: Seizing the Right Moments
“Fanaticism is the death of conversation.”
E.M. Cioran
E.M. Cioran
Here Are 52 of My Favorite Quotes
It’s nice to be important – but it’s more important to be nice.
310 / Crafting work on your own terms
“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
― Mark Twain
― Mark Twain
Mark Twain Quotes (Author of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn)
“If you ask other people about every decision you make, you're going to end up doing exactly what everyone else does and getting the same results that everyone else gets.”
Brain Food: The Rarest Thing You Possess
90 percent of success is not getting distracted.
Brain Food: Seizing the Right Moments
“The short-term crowd is always too distracted to notice the long-term crowd slowly compounding.
An investor obsessing over daily economic data misses the big picture. A teenager chasing fleeting popularity neglects to develop genuine interests and skills. A co-worker stops paying attention to the details to chase attention. All chase false stimuli... See more
An investor obsessing over daily economic data misses the big picture. A teenager chasing fleeting popularity neglects to develop genuine interests and skills. A co-worker stops paying attention to the details to chase attention. All chase false stimuli... See more