(Extracted from The Obstacle is the Way by Ryan Holiday) In 1915, deep in the jungles of South America, the rising conflict between two rival American fruit companies came to a head. Each desperately wanted to acquire...
(Extracted from The Obstacle is the Way by Ryan Holiday) We are A-to-Z thinkers, fretting about A, obsessing over Z, yet forgetting all about B through Y....
(Extracted from FckdEx by Scott Galloway) There was a great deal of discussion on whether to sell. I urged the founders, naturally optimistic about the firm’s prospects, to sell. The difference between $1 million and...
(Extracted from Raising the Best Kids You Can by Ben Carlson) In his book, Sapolsky references the work of psychologists Carol Dweck and Claudia Mueller. In the late-1990s, they worked with a classroom of 5th...
(Extracted from Atomic Habits by James Clear) At some point, you need to make sure you’re playing the right game for your skillset. How do you figure that out? The most common approach is trial and error. Of...
(Extracted from Types of ego by Nithyananda) The active ego is easy to recognize. People with an active ego will behave in a highhanded fashion; they will claim selfimportance openly. They will be arrogant. This ego is...
(Extracted from Ego is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday) We are all faced with this same challenge in the pursuit of our own goals: Will we work hard for something that can be taken away from us? Will we invest time...
(Extracted from Ego is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday) Our own path, whatever we aspire to, will in some ways be defined by the amount of nonsense we are willing to deal with. Our humiliations will pale in...
(Extracted from Ego is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday) The famous epigrammist Martial fulfilled this role for many years, serving for a time under the patron Mela, a wealthy businessman and brother of the Stoic...
(Extracted from Ego is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday) Passion is seen in those who can tell you in great detail who they intend to become and what their success will be like—they might even be able to tell you...
