Life

Happiness = Reality – Expectations

(Extracted from Wait But Why) It’s pretty straightforward—when the reality of someone’s life is better than they had expected, they’re happy. When reality turns out to be worse than the expectations,...

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Failure is the Mother of Success

“I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that...

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Pain + Reflection = Progress

(Extracted from Principles by Ray Dalio) When you experience pain, remember to reflect. You can convert the “pain” of seeing your mistakes and weaknesses into pleasure. If there is only one piece of advice I...

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Gifts are easy. Choices are hard. We are our choices.

(Extracted from Jeff Bezos’s speech delivered to graduates from Princeton University on May 30, 2010.) What I want to talk to you about today is the difference between gifts and choices. Cleverness is a gift, kindness...

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The most important question of your life: What are you willing to struggle for?

(Extracted from MarkManson.net) If I ask you, “What do you want out of life?” and you say something like, “I want to be happy and have a great family and a job I like,” it’s so ubiquitous that...

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