(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 Fat, Happy, And In Over Your Head by Morgan Housel) Marcel Hirscher is the greatest ski racer in history, winning the World Cup Overall title in each of the last eight years. Few of you have heard of...
(Extracted from Lee Kuan Yew: The Grand Master’s Insights on China, the United States, and the World) When campaigning, no one has to listen to you at all. And when the campaign is over, people have to believe...
(Extracted from Lee Kuan Yew: The Grand Master’s Insights on China, the United States, and the World) If I had not been able to reduce complex ideas into simple words and project them vividly for mass...
(Extracted from Lee Kuan Yew: The Grand Master’s Insights on China, the United States, and the World) I do not take anything all that seriously. If I did, I would be quite a sick man. A number of foolish things...
(Extracted from Barking Up the Wrong Tree by Eric Barker) The study came up with four metrics that matter most: 1. HAPPINESS: having feelings of pleasure or contentment in and about your life 2....
(Extracted from Barking Up the Wrong Tree by Eric Barker) Isaacson said, “One of his strengths as a thinker, if not as a parent, was that he had the ability, and the inclination, to tune out all distractions, a...
(Excerpt from Barking Up the Wrong Tree by Eric Barker) Another study, titled “Tell Me What I Did Wrong,” showed that a shift takes place when people are on the path to expertise. Novices seek and need positive...
