Joe Stampone

The purpose of life is to experience things for which you will later experience nostalgia

There’s nothing wrong with ambition. There’s nothing wrong with dreaming big. There's nothing wrong with building for the future.

But there is something wrong with doing it at the expense of appreciating the present.

Tiny Lessons
1. Selflessness is fearless.
2. Presence beats confidence.
3. Your mind quits long before your body.
4. There's no failure, only feedback.
5. Discomfort is your teacher.
6. Fear is self-centered.
7. Perfectionism limits excellence.
8. Vacation shouldn't be an escape.
9. Give 100% of what's available today, not 100% of perfect.
10. Presence

David Foster Wallace on thinking:

“Learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience.”

Mandatory work earns you a living. Voluntary work earns you a future.

The work you do during regular hours earns you a paycheck, but it's what you do (or don't do) outside of those hours that earns you opportunity.

I've seen many people fight this insight, and almost none of them win.

You won’t learn anything unless it hurts your feelings or costs you money.”