Moi Jamri

As long as you have a vision, you have rules, or guideposts. He says that not having rules is like mashing a bunch of different-colored Play-Doh together

The rebbe quoted his great great great grandfather (Tzemach Tzedek, 3rd rebbe of chabad), “ Tracht gut, vet zayn gut!” (=Think good, and it will be good).We have the power to affect our own reality for the better with our positive thoughts. We might not be always control our circumstances but we can control our mindset.

Balance might be overrated. If your life is perfectly balanced—everything going smoothly—is it as dynamic as it could be? When life is out of balance, usually something is changing, and that’s not always a bad thing. It gives you a new perspective. New projects always send things out of balance. I embrace disruptions to circumstances I’ve grown... See more

Well, so much for Carson’s three prescriptions. Here are four more prescriptions from Munger:

“This is the essence of the Rebbe’s Positivity Bias: To believe in G-d’s ultimate goodness, to know that blessings await us beneath the surface of our experience, no matter how bleak, to actively seek those blessings out, and to spread their light to the world beyond.”

If somebody hits you like an electric shock, you need to think. But when you realise those are the challenges you go back, train more, have a comeback in full swing.

You may have noticed  students who just try to remember and pound back what is remembered. Well, they  fail in school and in life. You've got to hang experience on a latticework of models in  your head.  What are the models? Well, the first rule is that you've got to have multiple models—  because if you just have one or two that you're using, the... See more