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“An overnight success is ten years in the making.” -Tom Clancy Speaking of measuring progress, this excerpt from Sahil Bloom’s excellent Curiosity Chronicle newsletter… The Chinese bamboo tree can grow to be nearly 100 feet tall—but it’s how it achieves that growth that makes it even more interesting. After being planted in the ground, it requires dailyContinue reading “Chinese Bamboo and You”

“Progress equals happiness. Even if you’re not where you want to be yet. If you’re on the road, if you’re improving, if you’re making progress, you’re gonna love it. You’re gonna feel alive.” – Tony Robbins “The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.” -RichardContinue reading ““How Am I Doing?””

“Expect nothing. Accept anything.” -Jerry Seinfeld “When we just sort of focus on the small things, the big things often accidentally end up taking care of themselves.” -Paul Thomas Anderson Speaking of letting it happen, read this great article from Billy Oppenheimer. Perhaps the reason you’re not getting the result you want is you’re tooContinue reading “The Result”

“In public avoid talking often and excessively about your accomplishments and dangers, for however much you enjoy recounting your dangers, it’s not so pleasant for others to hear about your affairs.” -Epictetus, Enchiridion In life as much as you can, aim to listen to others. Rather than talk about yourself. Try to connect with them.Continue reading “Save Your Storytelling For The Stage”

“The problem with smart people is they can come up with a good reason for not doing anything. They are smart enough to find the cracks, to foresee the challenges, and to talk themselves out of the idea. They are experts at justifying their lack of courage or lack of action with an intelligent excuse. Continue reading “Talk Yourself Into It”

“I am your teacher and you are learning in my school. My aim is to bring you to completion, unhindered, free from compulsive behavior, unrestrained, without shame, free, flourishing, and happy…Your aim is to learn and diligently practice all these things. Why then don’t you complete the work, if you have the right aim andContinue reading “Whatever WORKs”

“The tragedy of an attachment is that if its object is not attained it causes unhappiness. But if it is attained, it does not cause happiness – it merely causes a flash of pleasure followed by weariness, and it is always accompanied, of course, by the anxiety that you may lose the object of yourContinue reading “Detachment Comes From Awareness”

“Most people are not just comfortable in their ignorance, but hostile to anyone who points it out.” -Plato, The Allegory of the Cave “Any one who has common sense will remember that the bewilderments of the eyes are of two kinds, and arise from two causes, either from coming out of the light or fromContinue reading “Right Way Or Your Way?”

“I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig wasContinue reading “Just Choose Something”

If someone reaches out to you–particularly someone you’re close to and whose taste you trust–says “this was one of the best pieces of theatre I’ve ever seen”, then you should go see said show. Pronto. No questions asked. Just go. Realize that when someone reaches out and urges you to see something, that person isContinue reading “IPHIGENIA IN SPLOTT”