Pete Hinzy
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Pete Hinzy
Effective leaders ask questions rather than providing answers. The questions are key. Great leaders don’t tell people, they don’t direct people, and they don’t order people around. They facilitate great thinking through self-reflection. We talked about one ego-bypass question in an earlier chapter: “What would ‘great’ look like?” Here are a few oth
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Harsh feedback hurts less than harsh outcomes
An ancient Greek saying holds that we are tormented not by things themselves but by the opinions that we have of them.
Ward Farnsworth • The Practicing Stoic: A Philosophical User's Manual
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” Ghandi
“Caretake this moment. Immerse yourself in its particulars. Respond to this person, this challenge, this deed. Quit the evasions. Stop giving yourself needless trouble. It is time to really live; to fully inhabit the situation you happen to be in now. You are not some disinterested bystander. Participate. Exert yourself.” -Epictetus
“Rather than living every day as if it’s my last, I’ve shifted to a gentler approach of living every day as if it’s my first. I want to wake up and meet the day with the wonder of a newborn, to cultivate childlike qualities like curiosity and play.”
- Suleika Jaquad
Make your bed first thing in the morning. If you share a bed with a partner, make up your side. By doing this you will have already accomplished something, no matter how small, and started the day by moving forward. Some side benefits are you don’t come back to a messy bed later and you are not pushing the responsibility onto your partner.
The first principle of practical Stoicism is this: we don’t react to events; we react to our judgments about them, and the judgments are up to us.
Ward Farnsworth • The Practicing Stoic: A Philosophical User's Manual
The mind adapts and converts to its own purposes the obstacle to our acting. The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way