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Charlie
Novelist Charles Kingsley on happiness:
“We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.”
Citadel founder Ken Griffin on opportunities:
“Often it's the person who goes the extra mile who comes to the right conclusion. That's grit, it's perseverance, it's determination. It's making the effort. One of the things we emphasize is what do you need to do, what extra steps do you need to take to get to the right conclusion faster than those you
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Kant
Kant
Here are 10 of the maxims I took away from this episode and my research:
1. Committees kill revolutions.
2. Learning is the prize.
3. Hold your ideas with the right grip. Let go of incorrect ideas.
4. If it’s worth doing, it’s worth giving it 100%.
5. Obsession isn’t a problem. It’s an advantage.
6. Time will do the work for you if you align with how the... See more
1. Committees kill revolutions.
2. Learning is the prize.
3. Hold your ideas with the right grip. Let go of incorrect ideas.
4. If it’s worth doing, it’s worth giving it 100%.
5. Obsession isn’t a problem. It’s an advantage.
6. Time will do the work for you if you align with how the... See more
Shane Parrish on Steve Wozniak
Novelist and poet Charlotte Bronte reminds us to worry less about what's gone or what's coming, and focus more on what inspires us:
"I avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward."
Source: Letter to her friend Ellen Nussey (January 15, 1849)
Software Engineer Billy Markus on human behavior:
“People are not rational. They are rationalizing. Once you understand this simple fact, all the oddest human behavior will suddenly make way more sense.”
“People are not rational. They are rationalizing. Once you understand this simple fact, all the oddest human behavior will suddenly make way more sense.”
Charlie Munger on how to rise in life:
“I constantly see people rise in life who are not the smartest, sometimes not even the most diligent, but they are learning machines. They go to bed every night a little wiser than they were when they got up and boy does that help, particularly when you have a long run ahead of you.”
“I constantly see people rise in life who are not the smartest, sometimes not even the most diligent, but they are learning machines. They go to bed every night a little wiser than they were when they got up and boy does that help, particularly when you have a long run ahead of you.”
The philosophy of friendship goes further back, to Aristotle. “Without friends no one would choose to live,” he writes in the Nicomachean Ethics, “though he had all other goods.”