A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,” Emerson said, “adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
Humans are still primed to detect threats and dangers that no longer exist –.
The more you say,” Robert Greene has written, “the more likely you are to say something foolish.
To be steady while the world spins around you. To act without frenzy. To hear only what needs to be heard. To possess quietude – exterior and interior – on command.
Talk depletes us.
The journey has been enjoyable and well worth making – once!
Reminding ourselves each day that we will die helps us treat our time as a gift. Someone on a deadline doesn’t indulge himself with attempts at.
It’s not about kissing ass. It’s not about making someone look good. It’s about providing the support so that others can be good. The better wording for the advice is this: Find canvases for other people to paint on. Be an anteambulo. Clear the path for the people above you and you will eventually create a path for yourself.
Talk depletes us. Talking and doing fight for the same resources.
Failure really can be an asset if what you’re trying to do is improve, learn, or do something new. It’s the preceding feature of nearly all successes. There’s nothing shameful about being wrong, about changing course. Each time it happens we have new options. Problems become opportunities.
It is impossible to learn that which one thinks one already knows,” Epictetus says. You can’t learn if you think you already know.
Apply yourself to thinking through difficulties –.
Sure, paying attention requires work and awareness, but isn’t that better than being jerked about on a string?
You thought it would get easier when you arrived; instead, it’s even harder – a different animal entirely. What you found is that you must manage yourself in order to maintain your success.
The one way to guarantee we don’t benefit from failure – to ensure it is a bad thing – is to not learn from it.
We develop good character, strong epithets for ourselves, so when it counts, we will not flinch.
If you’re doing the work and putting in the time, you won’t need to cheat, you won’t need to overcompensate.
Our safety is not truly at risk here – there is little danger that we will starve or that violence will break out –.
The extent of the struggle determines the extent of the growth. The obstacle is an advantage, not adversity. The enemy is any perception that prevents us from seeing this.
There’s an old line about how if you want to live happy, live hidden.