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What man needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for a worthwhile goal, a freely chosen task. What he needs is not a h

Variance Equals Strength

Ok, this year I’m going to get better at this. Next year, that.’ And so forth and so on. And patiently, I got better.” Patiently, he repeats. “It was

I would suggest that we all spend some time considering the likelihood that when nothing is happening, something is happening

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But look beneath the technique and what did you find? A sameness, a mental weariness, a mediocrity of ideas. But they could defend every ad on the bas

Let us blaze new trails. Let us prove to the world that good taste, good art and good writing can be good selling.

All knowledge is intuitive. Intelligence is a measure of presence.

The Riddle of Ambition

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A good life doesn’t ask you to be good at everything. It asks you to find the small circle where you have unusual leverage, and to be peacefully avera

My father was a Sarkari Babu (government officer with basic salary) his entire life, he was at one job throughout his life. He drove a Bajaj scooter

Oliver Burkeman – Time Management for Mortals

The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy. It is to fund and capitalize our acquisitions, a

That is, be systematically ascetic or heroic in little unnecessary points, do every day or two something for no other reason than that you would rathe

5/ You try to figure things out rather than feel through them How do you drop a hot frying pan? You feel it, and you will let go. All your bad hab

The lowest level of choice is not making a conscious choice at all, which happens when you don’t notice that you even could make a choice. In this cas

David Lynch: “Ideas are like fish. If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you’ve

If you touch an idea too much without actually making it, just like a dough or plaster, it dies. I think it’s better to make and bake it and throw it

We’ve replaced time in the field with time on our phones. What we now call experience is the weighted average of our own and the residue of what other

Four shifts, and notice what they have in common.Oral defense. A student sits with the work and answers for it live. You cannot outsource what you hav

when someone tells me to keep writing, it feels like a command to keep living.

Everyone wants to be picked, but no one wants to organize the collective ‘we’. It’s the ‘we’ that creates a school of thought, a movement, a network,

Craft is the new "growth hack". Investing in craft, means you invest in quality of the experience, and that benefits in all of areas of the business

Da spricht wahrscheinlich der ehemalige Chemielehrer aus mir aber ich muss jedes Mal den Kopf schütteln, wenn es heißt, man habe „chemische Substanzen

most of success comes from doing the mundane and often distasteful stuff, like identifying and dealing with problems and pushing hard over a long time

Viktor Frankl wrote dozens of books, but only one,  Man’s Search For Meaning,  was not aimed at commercial success. Frankl wrote  Man’s Search For Mea

How to Be Successful

Winston Churchill hit the nail on the head when he said, “Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.”