Life

Filtered and Unfiltered leaders: Which one are you?

(Extracted from Barking Up the Wrong Tree by Eric Barker) Gautam Mukunda speculated that the reason for the inconsistency in the research was there are actually two fundamentally different types of leaders. The...

September 20, 2019| Life Read More

Care about something greater than yourself

(Extracted from The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson) Whether you’re listening to Aristotle or the psychologists at Harvard or Jesus Christ or the goddamn Beatles, they all say that happiness comes...

September 19, 2019| Life Read More

Immortality is about leaving a legacy

(Extracted from The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson) Becker called such efforts our “immortality projects,” projects that allow our conceptual self to live on way past the point of our physical...

September 19, 2019| Life Read More

Commitment is choice of focus

(Extracted from The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson) But while investing deeply in one person, one place, one job, one activity might deny us the breadth of experience we’d like, pursuing a breadth...

September 19, 2019| Focus, Life Read More

Unconditional love

(Extracted from The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson) It’s not about giving a fuck about everything your partner gives a fuck about; it’s about giving a fuck about your partner regardless of the...

September 19, 2019| Life Read More

Our identity is formed by what we reject

(Excerpt from The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson) The point is this: we all must give a fuck about something, in order to value something. And to value something, we must reject what is not that...

September 19, 2019| Life, Via Negativa Read More

It is more likely you screwed up instead of everyone else screwed up

(Extracted from The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson) …if it’s down to me being screwed up, or everybody else being screwed up, it is far, far, far more likely that I’m the one who’s...

September 19, 2019| Inversion, Life Read More

Be less wrong

(Excerpt from The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson) Most of our beliefs are wrong. Or, to be more exact, all beliefs are wrong—some are just less wrong than others. We shouldn’t seek to find the...

September 19, 2019| Inversion, Life, Via Negativa Read More

How do you get rich without getting lucky?

(Extracted from The Financial Turing Test by Nick Maggiulli) It is probably better to listen to a self-made rich person than a self-made poor person when it comes to financial matters.  However, this doesn’t...

September 18, 2019| Life, Randomness Read More

Habits have compounding effects

(Extracted from Atomic Habits by James Clear) Habits often appear to make no difference until you cross a critical threshold and unlock a new level of performance. In the early and middle stages of any quest, there is...

September 17, 2019| Life, Nonlinearity Read More

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