One of the most valuable mental heuristics i’ve adopted for my life is:
“what you have is what you deserve”
This doesn’t mean you don’t have the potential to become the type of person who “deserves better”. You do. Probably 10X or even 100x so.
But you, as you... See more
Tao Te Ching that says "nature is never in a hurry, yet everything is accomplished."
our lives, thanks to their finitude, are inevitably full of activities that we’re doing for the very last time. Just as there will be a final occasion on which I pick up my son—a thought that appalls me, but one that’s hard to deny, since I surely won’t be doing it when he’s thirty—there will be a last time that you visit your childhood home, or... See more
Literature is loaded with characters who laboured endlessly in their libraries to become learned, but were ultimately unfunctional and incomplete individuals. Mr. Bennet in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice spent his afternoons locked in his oak office, preferring the company of Walt Whitman to his wife, calm and content, while his household... See more