Youri Cviklinski

Whenever you see a barrier to what you want, just ask yourself:

Do I really know if this is a barrier? Or does it just look like one?

And if it simply looks like a barrier, you can ask two follow-up questions:

1. What’s the worst that can happen if I try?
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2. What’s the best that can happen if I try?

It’s a simple assessment of cost and benefit.

Here’s often

It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.

– Rabindranath Tagore

All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

– J.R.R. Tolkien

Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.

–Seneca

Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.

– Epictetus

Goldratt’s lesson:

System performance is limited by its constraint. Improving non-bottlenecks does not improve overall throughput.

The hardest truth about happiness is that it’s a choice.

– Shane Parrish

The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.

– Voltaire

Following your genuine intellectual curiosity is a better foundation for a career than following whatever is making money right now.

– Naval Ravikant