Blessings and burdens are not mutually exclusive. It’s a lot more complicated.
Because we only seem to hear about the passion of successful people, we forget that failures shared the same trait.
It’s a common attitude that transcends generations and societies. The angry, unappreciated genius is forced to do stuff she doesn’t like, for people she doesn’t respect, as she makes her way in the world.
This insight lives on today in Warren Buffet’s famous adage to “be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful.
I have observed that those who have accomplished the greatest results are those who “keep under the body”; are those who never grow excited or lose self-control, but are always calm, self-possessed, patient, and polite. – BOOKER T. WASHINGTON.
The orator Demosthenes once said that virtue begins with understanding and is fulfilled by courage.
Remember you are mortal.
Remember that you are an actor in a play, playing a character according to the will of the playwright – if a short play, then it’s short; if long, long. If he wishes you to play the beggar, play even that role well, just as you would if it were a cripple, a honcho, or an everyday person. For this is your duty, to perform well the character assigned you. That selection belongs to another.” – EPICTETUS, ENCHIRIDION, 17.
In reality, we’re made to help each other and be good to each other. We wouldn’t have survived as a species otherwise.
Los mejores no son los que esperaron las oportunidades, sino los que las arrebataron; las asediaron, las conquistaron y las pusieron a su servicio.
And it works. Small tweaks can change what once felt like impossible tasks. Suddenly, where we felt weak, we realize we are strong. With perspective, we discover leverage we didn’t know we had.
Silence is the general consecration of the universe. – HERMAN MELVILLE.
Defiance and acceptance come together well in the following principle: There is always a countermove, always an escape or a way through, so there is no reason to get worked up. No.
Part of the reason why a certain skill often seems so effortless for great masters is not just because they’ve mastered the process – they really are doing less than the rest of us who don’t know any better. They choose to exert only calculated force where it will be effective, rather than straining and struggling with pointless attrition tactics. As someone.
There’s one fabulous way to work all that out of your system: attach yourself to people and organizations who are already successful and subsume your identity into theirs and move both forward simultaneously. It’s certainly more glamorous to pursue your own glory – though hardly as effective. Obeisance is the way forward.
Everything must be done in the service of the whole.
As frightening as death might seem, remember: it contains within it the end of fear.
Every man has a passion gnawing away at the bottom of his heart, just as every fruit has its worm. – ALEXANDRE DUMAS.
It means you’re the least important person in the room – until you change that with results.
Lust is a destroyer of peace in our lives: Lust for a beautiful person. Lust for an orgasm. Lust for someone other than the one we’ve committed to be with. Lust for power. Lust for dominance. Lust for other people’s stuff. Lust for the fanciest, best, most expensive things that money can buy.