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Awesome
| “People like that don’t need a reason apart from „because I can“. They have a nightmare and try to make it happen.” ― Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time |
| „She’s a light wherever she goes.“ |
| „Most of graffiti is just a visual spam.“ |
| „Be interesting enough to kill.“ |
| „Don’t treat people as bad as they are. Treat them as good as you are.“ |
| „Being powerful means being able to affect the world around us.“ |
| „Life is… spicy.“ |
| „Intelligence is abstract action.“ |
| „Work is sacrificing present for the future.“ |
| „Active listening experiment: each person can speak up only after he has first restated the ideas and feelings of the previous speaker accurately and to that speaker satisfaction.“ |
| „Luck is macro result of thousand micro actions.“ |
| „Smoking is a form of self-induced anemia.“ |
| „Monster is an amalgam of a predator.“ |
| „Success is a tale of survival.“ |
| „Bhagavat gita is first instance of psychotherapy. It’s between Krishna and a son of a supressed dynasty who refuse to fight for the rights of his people.“ |
| „Sci-fi is very broad it’s just that sci-fi generally lacks magic. But the difference really comes down the themes. Sci-fi is much more about human nature, about the way the world is and the way the future might be. It’s much more political. Fantasy is much more about how we want the world to be. Heroes and villans and defeating evil in some form. In sci-fi the lines of evil and good are usually very blurred.“ |
| „EDM is physical music.“ |
| „Motion is lotion for the body.’ We all want to be moisturized—not dried up prunes.“ |
| „Luck is the residue of effort.“ |
| „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 was a brilliant professor, and another fig was Ee Gee, the amazing editor, and another fig was Europe and Africa and South America, and another fig was Constantin and Socrates and Attila and a pack of other lovers with queer names and offbeat professions, and another fig was an Olympic lady crew champion, and beyond and above these figs were many more figs I couldn’t quite make out. I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn’t make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet.“ – Sylvia Plath |
| „I believe that the age of average is the age of opportunity. When every supermarket aisle looks like a sea of sameness, when every category abides by the same conventions, when every industry has converged on its own singular style, bold brands and courageous companies have the chance to chart a different course. To be different, distinctive and disruptive. So, this is your call to arms. Whether you’re in film or fashion, media or marketing, architecture, automotive or advertising, it doesn’t matter. Our visual culture is flatlining and the only cure is creativity. It’s time to cast aside conformity. It’s time to exorcise the expected. It’s time to decline the indistinguishable. For years the world has been moving in the same stylistic direction. And it’s time we reintroduced some originality. Or as the ad agency BBH says. When the world zigs. Zag.“ |
| „All sins are attempts to fill voids.“ |
| „It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them. I was so preposterously serious in those days, such a humorless little prig. Lightly, lightly – it’s the best advice ever given me… So throw away your baggage and go forward. There are quicksands all about you, sucking at your feet, trying to suck you down into fear and self-pity and despair. That’s why you must walk so lightly.“ |
| „What is more human than being irrational?“ |
| „Imagine defining yourself not by what you do, but by how you exist in the world.“ |
| „Get curious, not furious.“ |
| „Getting an idea should be like sitting down on a pin; it should make you jump up and do something.“ |
| „Inspiration is perishable.“ |
| „Grief is a giant neon sign, protruding through everything, pointing everywhere, broadcasting loudly, „Love was here.“ In the finer print, quietly, „Love still is.“ |
| „Be the most extreme version of yourself.“ |
| „Komunismus vychází ze slova komu – komu, komu? Mně, mně!“ |
| „Necessity is the mother of invention, spite is the father of advancement.“ |
| „Karma je nejvyšší forma spravedlnosti.“ |
| „You’re offended when you fear that it might be true.“ |
| „An educated man has been defined as one who can entertain himself, one who can entertain another, and one who can entertain a new idea.“ |
| „If everything was simple and predictable, it should be predictable in advance, right?“ |
| „Am I decaying? Well, yes. But decay is always a day, a microbe, a rootlet, away from sprouting. Maybe I’m losing touch with a self, and melting into a more-than-human mind.“ |
| „Death was almost the moment when life overflowed its cup. Death wasn’t an end of life. It was the end of the singular. The deer decayed out of its shape into explosive, generative plurality. One narrative diverged into four hundred narratives.“ |
| „Tragedies are about having a hero who is just in the wrong goddamn story. His greatest strengths are totally useless and now we have got all these bodies to bury.“ |
| „A horse is an oat-powered motorcycle.“ – Cosmically Funny |
| „What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.“ – Abraham Joshua Heschel |
| „Awe is a psychedelic emotion.“ |
| „Knowledge is actually quite like the universe: it expands indefinitely, the more space it occupies the more space it creates. When the dots keep moving, could they ever fully connect?“ – someone on Reddit |
| „Internet is a whole new early civilization with its own mythology, wars and legends.“ – internet |
| „A falling tree makes more noise than a growing forest.“ – African proverb |
| „I want people to be afraid of how much they love me.“ |
| „Underrated pleasure in everyday life – watching whatever the fuck the clouds are doing.“ |
| „Be open, you never know where that next great memory is going to come from.“ |
| „Metal is angry music for happy people.“ |
| „What is the truth?“ The answer is, whatever works. The truth is a function of whatever works in relation to what we are trying to accomplish at any given moment.“ |
| „Vděk je násobič.“ – Saška |
| „Maybe the purpose in life is to have a nice day.“ |
| „Living like a river flows, carried by the surprise of its own unfolding.“ |
| „Advertisement is literally mind control.“ – Dr. K |
| „HOPE is not the way that we cope, but the way that we conquer.“ – Salome Agbaroji |
| „Love is the work of mirroring and magnifying each other’s light.“ – Maria Popova |
| „If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings.“ – Henry David Thoreau |
| „To be a smile on the face of a woman // And shine in her memory // As a moment saved without planning.“ – Dejan Stojanovic |
| „When we approach with reverence, great things decide to approach us. When we walk on the earth with reverence, beauty will decide to trust us.“ – John O’Donohue |
| „Video games are „clarity porn“, as they provide with unprecedented level of responsiveness, predictableness and certainty.“ |
| „Optimism is a performance-enhancing drug that’s both legal and free.“ |
| „Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recovered at will.“ – Charles Baudelaire |
| „Curiosity instantly inverts resistance.“ |
| „Joy is not a function of a life free of friction and frustration, but a function of focus – an inner elevation by the fulcrum of choice.“ – Maria Popova |
| „Cynicism is a life-contracting force.“ – Maria Popova |
| „Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening, everything must be said again.“ – André Gide |
| „Burnout happens when you invest emotionally and then don’t get a return on that investment.“ |
| „Extraordinary success requires misunderstood choices.“ |
| „Existential crises are arguably just a weird glitch in the human brain.“ |
| „Essentially, alpha is whatever your investors are willing to pay for.“ |
| „Just because results are not visible doesn’t mean they are not accumulating.“ |
| „Wealth is an option not yet taken to buy something later.“ |
| „Most successful people are just an anxiety disorder harnessed for productivity.“ – Andrew Wilkinson |
| „Any pace is a good pace.“ |
| „Optimism, on the other hand, is the ‚hopefulness and confidence about the future or the success of something‘.“ |
| „The climb is the fun part.“ |
| „An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.“ – Albert Camus |
| Q: „Is it important?“ A: „It’s as important as you want it to be“ |
| „Capitalism turns bodies into machines.“ |
| „When I simply am, it’s interesting how good I can feel.“ – Diane Musho Hamilton |
| „That is the definition of stress, a deviation from homeostasis.“ |
| „The guru’s job is to show the inquirer in some effective way that they are already what they are looking for.“ – Alan Watts |
| „Outer peace leads to inner peace.“ |
| „If you find a contradiction, check your premises. You will inevitably find that one of them is wrong.“ – Ayn Rand |
| „Happiness is experiencing oneself as being right.“ – Brett N. Steenbarger |
| „Prince or pauper, we all dance with the reaper.“ |
| „It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply.“ – Aldous Huxley |
| „Jak budeme stárnout, pořád budeme dělat ty samé hovadiny, jen pomaleji.“ – Lenka |
| „Anger is a secondary emotion that protects you from some deeper, primary emotion.“ |
| „Leadership is not a thing you’re handed, it’s a thing you take.“ |
| „Purpose – To be free. To… to observe. To do whatever you wanted. It is enough to exist in the world and marvel at it. You don’t need to justify that, or earn it. You are allowed to just live. That is all most animals do.“ |
| „He’s on a credit mentality. Enjoy and pay back. I’m on a debit mentality. Create a surplus and do whatever the fuck you want.“ |
| „The point of Buddhism is to stop existing in an universe that has purpose-free reincarnation.“ |
| „The Czech republic is a country where if you called a woman a feminist, she’d finish her beer, put down her combination wrench and punch you in the face.“ |
| Guilt = „I did something bad.“ Shame = „I am bad.“ |
| „Few things are more beautiful than hard-earned scars.“ |
| „Remember, there are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.“ |
| „A strategy is a long-term approach to getting what you want.“ |
| „A tactic is a short to medium-term course of action that helps you live up to your strategy.“ |
| „Všechno se dá vysvětlit. Jen ne všem.“ – Saška |
| „Good negotiation is about being prepared, understanding people’s needs, and exchanging things of low value to you and high value to whoever you’re negotiating with, for things that are low value to them and high value to you.“ |
| „Life’s about learning a new something, meeting a new someone, and seeing a new somewhere.“ |
| „Economically, the print media are in the business of marking up paper.“ |
| „Reciprocity is weaponized karma.“ |
| „Grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot impact, the courage to give feedback to the people I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.“ |
| „If you know how to do something, it’s easy. If you don’t know how to do something, it’s hard.“ |
| „As the monopoly supplier of your time, you get to be choosy.“ |
| „Rationality is systematized winning.“ |
| „Definition of genius: to have a disinterested (objective, unbiased) obsession with something that matters.“ |
| „He will smite you in his just wrath, but there’s no malice in it.“ |
| „Take one simple thing — almost anything — but take it extremely seriously, as if it was the only thing in the world, or maybe the entire world is in it — and by taking it seriously you’ll light up the sky.“ |
| „In a search for infinite enjoyment, we miss one very basic principle that more is not all. When game gives you one single route to travel through, it can bring you through twisting, unfamiliar hallways, to a place that is deeply, deeply memorable.“ |
| „There was nothing on that mountain that could possibly satisfy the hole left inside of him. No answer to his suffering, nothing gained and everything lost. That’s what grief is.“ |
| „Boredom is a stimulation seeking emotional state.“ |
| „Experiences of profound joy – and more broadly the peak experiences described by Maslow – are the positive equivalents of trauma.“ |
| „Peak experiences are not about building or bolstering the ego, but rather about transcending our usual experience. During periods of extreme joy and meaning, we move beyond the common concerns of daily life and operate with a wholly new, energizing perspective. That is positive trauma.“ |
| „I want to speak and comprehend words of wounding without having these words become the landscape where I dwell. I want to possess a light touch that can elevate darkness to the realm of stars.“ |
| „What is time, sacred time, but the acceleration of consciousness?“ |
| „You don’t need any special chair. You can sit on a log if you like. Just don’t sit for so long that your body fatigues and disintegrates into a sad ball of a human.“ |
| „Stop putting caps on what you can do. Every action raises the „cap“ anyway.“ |
| „I will be with me for the rest of my life, so why not to get to know myself better, right?“ |
| „Creepiness is evolutionary feeling of ‚this might not be safe for me‘.“ |
| „Objects are actually a specific subcategory of patterns.“ |
| „Tool is a meaningful pattern.“ |
| „We have refresh rate for our vision, and it’s something like 60 frames per cycle. Anything below and you will start to see flickering.“ |
| „Embodiment of Apollo – irrational frenzy controlled by reason and self reflection.“ |
| „Happiness is basically extraversion minus neuroticism.“ |
| „What you do speaks so loudly I cannot hear what you say.“ – Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| „Deep sense of awe and horror. That’s the quality of the best music.“ |
Behaviour
| „Jacob’s Theorem of the Troll – If you play a game with more than N people, at least one of them is a troll who will play the game in the most incorrect way possible. Or from another angle: if at least N people are playing a game, at least one of them is playing a different game.“ |
| „Why are you helping me?“ „Because my life is a mess right now, and I compulsively take care of other people when I don’t know how to take care of myself.“ – Princess Carolyn, Bojack Horseman show |
| „Transformation happens when you add or subtract something from someone’s life.“ |
| „Your first impulse should always be to find the evidence that disconfirms your most cherished beliefs and those of others. That is true science.“ – The Laws of Human Nature by Robert Greene |
| „Distance yourself from the people you don’t want to become. Cultivate people in your life that make you better.“ |
| „If nothing rattles you or cases you to lose your cool – that’s true growth.“ |
| „Humility is the voice inside your head that says: „Anyone can do it once, that’s luck. But can you do it consistently?’“ |
| „Depression is just a signal, not malfunction. It tells you something.“ |
| „Integrity is a reputation with yourself.“ |
| „Emotions create habits. Not repetition. Not frequency. Not fairy dust. Emotions.“ |
| „What looks like success is often just patience.“ |
| „The direction is enough to make the next choice.“ |
| „To maximize your life enjoyment, you should die with no money left over. Balance your account to zero. You should die broke.“ |
| „Don’t throw anger away, let it fuel something else.“ |
| „Why don’t we intentionally stress our emotions like we know we should with our bodies?“ |
| „Instant gratification steals happiness from your future self.“ |
| „Assets more than liabilities.“ |
| „Calm is contagious.“ |
| „The advice you don’t want to hear is usually the advice you need.“ |
| „Cultivate you inner gorilla.“ |
| „Overreaction is often a sign that something else is going on.“ |
| „Blame is a way of venting anger. „ |
| „Anxiety comes from not seeing the full picture.“ |
| „Avoidance and anxiety are both ways of expressing insecurity.“ |
| „Criticism is often driven by shame.“ |
| „Advice is sometimes regret in disguise.“ |
| „Mistrust is often driven by an unspoken expectation.“ |
| „Doubt arises when outcomes are uncertain.“ |
| „Selflessness is often driven by guilt.“ |
| „Every negative emotion is driven by an unmet need.“ |
| „Discipline needs to be progressively overloaded.“ |
| „Confidence is a byproduct of positive choices.“ |
| „To love; and to be loved.“ |
| „Treating yourself with respect have ridiculous ROI.“ |
| „Average person thinks they are above average.“ |
| „Giving compliments – show respect, just get the words out and do it more often. Compliments make people more happy than we think.“ |
| „Real self-knowledge is knowing of your borders.“ |
| „Part of being the good person is alleviating suffering.“ |
| „Make yourself articulate and you will make yourself deadly in the best possible way.“ |
| „The basis for not letting go of unfair treatment is disgust with yourself. How can you have not stood up for yourself?“ |
| „It’s hard to have humility without being arrogant at the same time.“ |
| „Humility is being in the love with things you don’t know.“ |
| „When you specify a winning condition, you specify the losing one as well. You now know the point of failure, and that’s why so low number of people will do it.“ |
| „Help other person make their argument as strong as it can, because that’s how you treat others seriously. Not weaking them to „win“.“ |
| „Things you hide grow.“ |
| „Play is an instinct.“ |
| „Tyrants don’t have internal control. They will push and push until you push back.“ |
| „Changing the habits without changing the underlying identity makes it almost impossible to commit to them.“ |
| „We want to be mirrored by others.“ |
| „You become what you repeat. So repeat what you want to become.“ |
| „Depression is the anger turned against the self.“ – freudian concept probably |
| „Confidence comes from surviving fear.“ |
| „Familiarity breeds indifference.“ |
| „True Confidence is being less invested in other people’s perceptions of you than in your perception of yourself.“ |
| „The only way to gain True Confidence is to invest more in yourself.“ |
| „To most women, the man with True Confidence is like cute woman with perfect body.“ |
| „Laziness is a fluctuating state.“ |
| „Desires are not worth the suffering.“ |
| „Emotions operate on x-axis. Peacefulness and suffering operates on y-axis.“ |
| „We achieve a fraction of our potential because we’re operating at a fraction of our energy level. We cannot achieve great things in our trading or in our lives if we’re not doing something greatly each day. „ |
| „In *every* relationship, there will be things you and your partner disagree on. Differences are inevitable. It’s when they become incompatibilities that you’ve got a problem. Here’s a useful litmus test to tell them apart: Can you laugh together about your differences?“ |
| „Introvert se brání směrem ven; extrovert se brání směrem dovnitř.“ |
| „There is no difference between inspiration and lack of distraction. They are the same thing.“ |
| „When we are angry, there is an unmet need. We miss that unmet need.“ |
| „Boredom is just existing with yourself.“ |
| „Action is the answer.“ |
| „Psychotherapy only works if the person actually wants help, believes there is a problem, wants their life to improve, wants to do something about their problems, and believes change is possible.“ |
| „Understand and feel that at the deepest level everything and everyone are one single indivisible reality. As long as that’s your bottom line, and that everything you do is consistent with and an expression of that understanding, that’s the only moral code you need.“ |
| „In fact, just being free from the chase is worth more money, than the money itself.“ |
| „If in doubt, try to help them understand what you’re doing and try to learn how you can create more value.“ |
| „Once you’ve said what you want to say, move on.“ |
| „In relationships, nothing can compete with small and consistent acts of kindness.“ |
| „Position yourself to play on easy mode.“ |
| „Maybe consider blindly following advice sometimes? If you’ve repeatedly made terrible choices in some domain, maybe try the wisdom of the crowds instead?“ |
| „What you eat is who you are, and what you read is who you become.“ |
| „Vůdcovský titul s sebou nese jedinou povinnost: udělat všechno lepším.“ |
| „Changing the sense of self starts with shattering your perception of yourself. It’s not about building something new. We gotta break this pot before reforming it.“ |
| „A particularly powerful vision comes from visualizing the kind of person we would ideally like to be. What personality strengths would we most like to develop? „ |
| „We can view our character development much as we view our physical development: use it or lose it. „ |
| „We can also set up routines to exercise our character the way we exercise our bodies.“ |
| „When we become impatient with others and expect them to meet our needs, we naturally put ourselves first and can create toxic interactions. The idea of servant leadership is that we best lead by taking care of others, accepting and addressing their needs.“ |
| „I’m–in a sense–adopting everyone I deal with, committing myself to furthering their lives.“ |
| „Scarcity can work to your advantage. Imagine you’ve got a rare combination of qualities: honest, hardworking, and smart. People like that are scarce, and the world tends to reward them disproportionately. It’s not just about being good at one thing; it’s about having a mix of traits.“ |
| „Your actions reflect your beliefs.“ |
| „Exploration is how you discover what works. Persistence is how you make the most of what already works. What does your situation require? More exploration or more persistence?“ |
| „Tact is not the quality by which you often please, but by which you seldom offend.“ |
| „Reward of raising children is loving someone more than you love yourself.“ |
| „Good things happen when we say to ourselves „This is gonna be fun!“ instead of thinking „Who is that person!“ |
| „Experiment more, break things, and move faster.“ |
| „Conserve your dopamine for the the tasks you want to do in the morning. If you engage in high-dopamine based activities, dopamine pool will be depleted and there will be no more activization left to start the important activity later on.“ |
| „Lots of outcome data, lots of adjustments, constant small improvements. Continuous evolution can create revolutionary results.“ |
| „It feels good to have a concentrated mind.“ |
| „You’ll build confidence by focusing on executing the inputs that are in your control.“ |
| „Learning how to perform under pressure is a skill. It can be acquired and mastered.“ |
| „You have to learn that pressure is a privilege. Instead of “having” to perform under pressure, you “get” to. It’s an honor to be in a situation where you can put on your best.“ |
| „Performance is not a threat to you; it’s actually an opportunity.“ |
| „Goals are for people who care about winning once. Systems are for people who care about winning repeatedly.“ |
| „Keeping your options open now will reduce your opportunities in the long run because you divide your attention and end up doing an average job on seven different things.“ |
| „You don’t have to be good at everything, you just need to double down on what you’re naturally suited for.“ |
| „What if you played the game like you were always on offense? The best way to handle pressure is to apply it.“ |
| „Metal is „angry music“, not because it makes you angry, but because it allows you to be angry in a healthier way.“ |
| „Short-term results come from intensity. Long-term results come from consistency.“ |
| „Optimization often works for you until it doesn’t.“ |
| „Until we actively train our minds to expect a unique outcome, we will continue experiencing only what we know.“ |
| „Když nemůžeš, přidej víc je pro bojovníky. Pro nás je když nemůžeš, uber na tu míru, na které to šlo.“ – Saška |
| „What you call impossible is often just pain you’re unwilling to endure.“ |
| „Reliability isn’t just a virtue – it’s a competitive advantage that compounds over time.“ |
| „Success is being excited to go to work and being excited to come home.“ |
| „When everything is measured in terms of engagement, content will be optimized for addictiveness.“ – Mark Manson |
| „Double the pleasure and divide the pain.“ |
| „When does it benefit me to be patient and when does it not?“ – Nathan Barry |
| „Today’s choices become tomorrow’s position.“ |
| „A military force has no constant formation, water has no constant shape: the ability to gain victory by changing and adapting according to the opponent is called genius.“ – Sun Tzu |
| „Automatic rules turn the best choice the default choice.“ |
| „Any habit needs all its parts in order to function. If some parts are missing, the habit is disassembled.“ — Carlos Castaneda |
| „What looks like discipline is often a carefully created environment to encourage certain behaviors. What looks like poor choices is often someone trying their best to use willpower to go against their environment.“ |
| „The way to improve your defaults isn’t by willpower but by creating an artificial environment where your desired behavior becomes the default behavior.“ |
| „You cannot love what you cannot see afresh. You cannot love what you are not constantly discovering anew.“ |
| „Ninety percent of success can be boiled down to consistently doing the obvious thing for an uncommonly long period of time without convincing yourself that you’re smarter than you are.“ |
| „Elevated standards create elevated results.“ |
| „Find a mode where the friction to getting started declines over time.“ |
| „Elite performers don’t just get better; they get better at getting better.“ – Brett Steenbarger |
| „Change occurs only once the accumulation of problems necessitates the reach for new solutions.“ – Brett Steenbarger |
| „We are most likely to change if our efforts feel evolutionary, not revolutionary.“ – Brett Steinbarger |
| „We often won’t change what we don’t like, but we will change what disgusts us.“ – Brett Steenbarger |
| „It’s not about being great at any one thing — you just need to be pretty good at an array of useful skills that, when combined, make you truly one of a kind.“ |
| „You don’t waste time with reactionaries; rather, you work with active change agents and with the vast middle ground of people who are open-minded.“ |
| „The way to get controversial things done is to do them and draft in believers along the way until the naysayers don’t have a leg to stand on.“ |
| „We should feel good afterwards instead of before. Instead of relying on good feelings to come along and motivate us to do the thing, we can do the thing and get the good feelings afterwards.“ |
| „Big and sudden just doesn’t work, slow and steady does it. It’s the yo-yo effect of discipline. You want to surf the edge of your comfort zone, which is the only sustainable attitude.“ |
| „Terror management theory describes self-esteem as being the personal, subjective measure of how well an individual is living up to their cultural values.“ |
| „As a civilization, we have succeeded so much that the optimal strategy in life has changed from minimax to maximax – while it historically made sense to cover the downside and maximise the value of the worst-case scenario at the price of sacrificing upside opportunities, we have insured the downside so well that it is now in fact optimal to maximise the best-case scenario and play it pretty risky.“ |
| „The main risk of moderm times is no longer doing something wrong, but not doing something right.“ |
| „It’s amazing how attractive calm people can be.“ |
| „The more you can get other people’s worlds to collide, the bigger your own world will become.“ |
| „This is self-improvement’s dark secret. Since it’s all about getting better, you’re left with only two opinions of other people: They’re better than you or You’re better than them. Whichever one you settle on, you lose, as conparison is the birth of misery nevertheless the outcome.“ |
| „I wasn’t able to start doing controversial public work until I realized that I’m not particularly a big deal, life’s a circus, and getting nonsense thrown at me is totally acceptable and necessary to doing meaningful work.“ |
| „People love hoarding options.“ |
| „Rules and norms are arbitrary games that can be changed.“ |
| „People have vastly different desires, except for three things: Respect, feeling useful, and control over their time. Those are nearly universal.“ |
| „Marketing makes customers to move.“ |
| „Eventually you will physically change into the person your body is pretending to be.“ |
| „Being smart is only worth it if you’re smarter than everyone else. If you aren’t, it’s better to be dumb.“ |
| „All behavior makes sense with enough information.“ |
| „People want to be with healthy people.“ |
| „The surface area of luck increases if you get more shots on goal, you’re well-positioned (changes in environment, ability to endure pain, etc.), you have a long time horizon, you have access to a network of successful people, and you mix curiosity, energy, and integrity.“ |
| „If you don’t want to do it, just don’t do it. If you want to do it, do it as fast as you can.“ |
| „Compete with yourself and root for everybody else.“ — Candice Millard |
| „Indulging in curiosity tends to increase it rather than to sate it. Questions lead to more questions.“ |
| „So… you’ve been able to skillfully chop up Laziness into bite-sized goals. It exists to help you realize what is important for you. And converted the troll of Self-Doubt into an ally by realizing it’s a form of love, barrier to protect you from harm. Hug the uncertainty now, embrace it and love deeply. It exists to keep the game going.“ |
| „Set goals in every habit you do.“ |
| „Accept the hurt. Then accept responsibility – don’t ruminate in it, reassure it didn’t always happen this way, and reconnect with yourself.“ |
| „Gossiping, judgement, negativity, complaining, excuses, exaggeration and confusing opinions with facts.“ – seven deadly sins of speaking |
| „Honesty – being clear and straight. Authenticity – standing in your own truth. Integrity – do what you say. Love – wish them well.“ – four virtues of speaking |
| „Always give credit, take blame.“ |
| „Humility is what you don’t know is more important than what you know.“ |
| „If you are bored, sometimes you are pursuing thing you no longer want to pursue.“ |
| „Calmness is low-arousal emotion. It’s hard to switch high to low. That’s why „Calm down!“ never works.“ |
| „Everything you say must be as authentic as possible.“ |
| „Rage is a hell of an anesthetic.“ |
| „Purpose of habit is to achieve a certain identity.“ |
| „Bragging is the inverse of how satisfied you are with life.“ |
| „You can never get used to something if it never stays the same.“ |
| „You peruse the games, movies and stories like a museum of the past. We come back not to play the game or read the story, but to relive the memories.“ |
| „Treat somebody like an celebrity and they will treat you like a fan.“ |
| „Want to take your rightful place in the kingdom? Get your tongue straight.“ |
| „Raw anger under control is unbelievely sexy. Transmute that force into something.“ |
| „Predictible; with some interesting variations.“ |
| „You don’t breathe AND have an emotions. Your emotions breathe.“ |
| „Practice till you can’t get it wrong.“ |
| „Successful communication of an idea is about asserting what they already know and filling the rest.“ |
| „Any job can be enjoyable when there’s no internal conflict. And there’s no internal conflict when the mind doesn’t run around like a child high on cocaine. You now work for the sake of working.“ |
| „Personality is not shaped by what you do, but how you react to things. It’s all about your default reactions.“ |
| „Body naturally wants to return to healthy state. When you get 20 points of fear and process only 2, you store 18. Once you start to pick that 18 stored points back up later, body and mind start to process and heal automatically.“ |
| „When our emotion control our thoughts, the direction of all of our thoughts leads to the same place.“ |
| „The only way to become good at something is to practice the ordinary basics for an uncommon length of time. Boredom and impatience are the greatest threats to results.“ |
| „The moment we start to expect something, our happiness is going to decline.“ |
| „You can’t have regret while immersed in the present moment, nor you can’t have anxiety. Regret lives in the past, anxiety lives in the future.“ |
| „Separate your emotions from other people’s actions and your own action.“ |
| „Goals can be accomplished and then it’s done; motivations continues.“ |
| „Confidence is default state. Gaining confidence is actually more or less just unlearning insecurity.“ |
| „Dharma is about having a higher than yourself thing that you ought to do, so you can willingly withstand uncomfortableness and even danger. Dharma is about living a life based on values, not desires.“ |
| „Only values drives action. Desires almost never drives action. Only way to really move forward in life is to build value-based life.“ |
| „The cycle of abuse continues. Unless you acknowledge you being abused is no valid reason for you to pass it onto others.“ |
| „There’s no failed experiment. There’s just data. You expected thousand things and got something else. So when you discover why you got something else, you retroactively change the thousand expectations you had before and that’s how you make an huge impact.“ |
| „Accept you shouldn’t plan your life based on what you think you should do or what you think you are capable of. Devote yourself doing things you care about and not worrying about whether you do good enough job or not.“ |
| „Identity set standards for ourselves.“ |
| „Enlightement is living in the state of detachment from your identify – as a mere experiencer of things.“ |
| „Greed may be the strongest motivator, after sexual drive, that we all possess.“ |
| „We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.“ |
| „Nothing and no one will ever fix you. You will always feel mildly inadequate and somewhat dissatisfied with your life.“ |
| „Environmental influence is the most effective form of behavioral control. Accordingly, if you want radical change, radically change your environment.“ |
| „We all play the game we think we can do better at. People with mostly economic capital play the Expensive Cars game. People with mostly cultural capital play the Glass Bead Game.“ |
| „If we really have this unconscious programming that determines all the stuff we like, then we can’t overcome that programming and probably shouldn’t.“ |
| „It’s amazingly hard to be angry with someone who just says, “Sorry, I forgot”.“ |
| „If our performance depends upon our mindset, it will always be fragile. If our performance follows from a flexible process that we internalize, it will always be robust.“ |
| „Growth comes when we deny the path of least resistance and choose what is more beneficial.“ |
| „Perhaps curiosity is the compass here. Don’t do what you love, do what you are curious about.“ |
| „Resisting sexual urges gives power to do things otherwise impossible.“ |
| „Make habit of disobeying your lizard brain.“ |
| „Make your actions and expressions outside of your body.“ |
| „When you are in pain, that’s when you learn who you really are.“ |
| „You have to purposely do it before you feel ready. People want to see you when you are not ready, someone who is just slightly above them.“ |
| „Low confidence is caused by low challenges, high confidence is caused by high challenges.“ |
| „Change the attitude of others for better – give them a reputation to live up to. And give one to yourself too.“ |
| „To try a new things – I think that is a way of showing hope.“ |
| „Create sound consciously and consume sound consciously.“ |
| „Act as if you are on your side. Treat yourself as somebody you are responsible for helping.“ |
| „At the end of the day, you are still responsible for your own happiness, regardless of whose fault your current happiness level is.“ |
| „Voluntarily turn into a monster with something good in mind.“ |
| „Without capability for mayhem you are potential victim of mayhem.“ |
| „When presented a choice – to transform for a better, or to remain the same – it’s better to transfor in positive direction.“ |
| „Self awareness growns in proportions to your lack of distractions.“ |
| „Women like men four years older, who manifest signs of success, are handsome and with great personality. All of this to offset the implied costs of pregnancy. Competence and generosity. Two crucial traits to have.“ |
| „Truth is discovered in action.“ |
| „Have systems to get your job done.“ |
| „Addiction is aggressive narrowing of the things that bring you pleasure.“ |
| „One of the biggest keys to success at anything hard is believing that you can figure it out as you go along. A lot of people won’t start until they figure it out. And because most hard things can’t be figured out in advance, they never start.“ |
| „I am responsible for what I say, not what you understand.“ |
| „Whatever the issue, it seems as if we spend the first half of our lives shutting down feelings to stop the hurt and the second half trying to open everything back up to heal the hurt.“ |
| „Excitement is the more practical synonym for happiness, and it is precisely what you should strive to chase. It is the cure-all.“ |
| „Reading for curiosity is better than reading for self improvement.“ |
| „Aggression is about intent – it’s the willingness to act without hesitation. You can be aggressive without rage or anger. „ |
| „Masculine obsesses about goals, femine about love and joy. Set and achieve goals that make you a man you want to be.“ |
| „You can do massive progress by just doing nothing.“ |
| „The satisfaction of junk food comes from how much taste we got to enjoy from it, not from the fullness of the belly.“ |
| „If something is not working, change the variables under your control.“ |
| „Daily streak is completely toxic. Better way – how many times I did it in the last month?“ |
| „Train your mind to be able to deal with uncertainty.“ |
| „Your job as a parent is to make your child socially desirable by the age of four.“ |
| „A man has to decide he’s going to do something. Otherwise you are like a sled dog that doesn’t have a sled to pull.“ |
| „You want to be in a sphere of jobs where your intelligence will put you in higher quartile. You will be a big fish in a small pond.“ |
| „Human beings without goals can’t have any perception, because there isn’t any focus, any filter to pass the world through.“ |
| „Shadow side is the aggressiveness of your childhood that got socialized out. You have to integrate it back. Otherwise it will be screaming for attention.“ |
| „If don’t let the agressive energy to manifest itself, you turn it onto you.“ |
| „Anger is the antidote to poison that would otherwise freeze you.“ |
| „You stay away from places where you don’t fell normal.“ |
| „Feeling of meaningfulness is response to neurological question whether you are doing the right thing in the right place in the right time. It’s where the potential is transforming into reality.“ |
| „Stop doing the things you know that are wrong that you could stop doing.“ |
| „If something surprises you over and over, stop being surprised.“ |
| „Any good habit is a memorization of a good sequence of action.“ |
| „When you stumble over basic, repeatable action, you need to put a system in place.“ |
| „You don’t have to improve. But when you do, you need to put a focused effort in it.“ |
| „We often monetize buffers and margins of safety.“ |
| „Perpetually play offense – make things better, even when they are good already. You will be better positioned when things go south eventually.“ |
| „Emotional work is not about solutions. It’s about digesting and processing.“ |
| „Visualization is most powerful when it augments and extends work being done physically and may be more useful for a master to hone and develop skills than for a beginner to build those skills.“ |
| “Find the thing you do really well that doesn’t drain your energy.” |
| „Hold yourself to a higher standard and the people around you will alter their behavior to meet that standard, or they’ll simply cease to be the people around you.“ |
| „You need to integrate sexuality. You need to integrate aggressiveness.“ |
| „You want to be continuously stepping away from your previous self.“ |
| „If you are chronically rejected by people, it’s because of your own insufficiencies.“ |
| „Good hygiene, good clothes, well groomed, well rested. Physical traits women are looking for. The signs of health.“ |
| „If you want something to happen, make it happen.“ |
| „When you change belief and mindset, behaviour follows.“ |
| „To be extremely attractive, you need to imply being rich and famous, or to merely display potential to have them. It’s about perception, not reality.“ |
| „Social status is determined by your behaviour – how you treat yourself, how you treat other people and how other people treat you.“ |
| „The more confident one is, the more attractive he is. Regardless of situation.“ |
| „True confidence is knowing you are valuable. Respectable. Whether or not others recognize it. True confidence is expressing yourself without shame or inhibition. Your values, your ideas, your interests.“ |
| „True confidence is irresistible and sexy. The way you get it – invest more in yourself.“ |
| „Like a knife, we need constant sharpening. The sharpening comes when we engage with resistance.“ |
| „There are consequences if we avoid sharpening. We become dull, stagnant, and complacent in body, mind, and spirit.“ |
| „A lot of errors happen when you try to speed up what’s naturally going to happen. The lack of patience changes the outcome.“ |
| „In order to negotiate properly you have to put yourself in a position, in which you can push back as hard, as hard you can be pushed back.“ |
| „You cannot live without nobility of purpose. It’s not optional. You cannot live without a noble cause to lean against.“ |
| „Respect comes from doing difficult things. Do them well. Pick up your burden and lift everybody else with it.“ |
| „Accept the burdensome condition of suffering voluntarily and you will transcend it.“ |
| „No one can be a good person without integrating capacity for aggression. Because you cannot say no otherwise.“ |
| „You integrate aggression by inviting it to the game. But it’s a controlled force. Not something wreaking havoc.“ |
Funny
| „Je to pochod na dlouhou trať.“ – Alička |
| „Kup si kořenovou zeleninu a narvi si ji do polívky!“ |
| „Karpatský makak na pět? Babiš.“ / „Jaké národnosti je Andrej Babiš? Karpatský makak.“ |
| Cyclepath / suicycle / cyklopati |
| „Víš, jak se jmenuje ten strom, jak se z něj dělají papírové kapesníky? Smrk!“ |
| „Perhaps evolution is process of becoming tastier.“ – Kim, movie Castaway on the Moon (2009) |
| „No statue has ever been erected in honour of a critic.“ |
| „Hiking up to mountain vistas just means your mind is distracted by beauty and doesn’t have to deal with existential crisis.“ |
| „I’m not traditionally qualified = my perspective is different.“ |
| „For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.“ – H. L. Mencken |
| „When you meditate, you can consciously tell when your mind starts to rant like a little bitch.“ |
| „Pessimists see closed doors. Optimists see open doors. And probably kick open every closed door they see along the way.“ |
| „Getting offended at all is childish, because nobody fucking care.“ |
| „The finance sector is where smart people go to make 6 figures for 3-5 years until they do acid, heal their trauma and realize they don’t want to do their jobs anymore.“ |
| „I love the phrase ‘have a good one’ because it’s just like, whatever you’re having – a Monday, an existential crisis, an incredible mushroom trip, a murder fantasy – I hope it’s good.“ |
Marketing
| „You charge for the benefit they are getting.“ |
| „Everybody’s obsessed with finding a niche when what they should be doing is expressing a worldview“ |
| „Marketing at its best, where you are actually listening to the customer and then delivering value on what they want, totally ethically.“ |
| „You want to deliver to the world what you would buy if you were on the other end.“ |
| „When the topic is you – go make friends and market how you provide value.“ |
Practical
| „Pain that’s embraced by choice is much easier to tolerate than pain that must be endured by consequence.“ |
| „Writing a blog creates value for you even if no one reads it.“ |
| „Writing is networking for introverts.“ |
| „Never less than X, never more than Y.“ |
| „When stuck, apply another constraint.“ |
| „Cologne – spray into the air and walk into it; don’t spray it on yourself.“ |
| „The best strategy is simply to be aggressively open-minded.“ |
| „Jak si to udělat v životě hezký?“ |
| „Compliment people behind their back.“ |
| „Dance with your hips.“ |
| „Minimum viable product is like a really good first draft.“ |
| „Done is better than perfect.“ — Sheryl Sandberg |
| „Invite people to do stuff.“ |
| „Be default „yes“.“ |
| „Catch people doing noble things and highlight them.“ |
| „Two brains are better than one.“ |
| „Think positive, plan negative.“ |
| „Short-term experiments beat long-term planning.“ |
| „Writing is formalized thinking. First, you need a problem. Then you need to say something about the problem. Then you distill and summarize what you REALLY know.“ |
| „Write about things you find important. See if you discover what you believe to be true.“ |
| „One adjustement at the time.“ |
| „When you are smiling and having fun, you will instantly become more attractive than when you are not smiling and not having fun.“ |
| „When in doubt, be quiet.“ |
| „If you want to master it, teach it.“ |
| „You don’t have a better bloody plan than to do your best.“ |
| „A calm mind, a fit body, and a house full of love.“ |
| „Sleep is where the brain heal itself.“ |
| „Happiness is exceptations exceeded.“ |
| „Fix the things you repeat every day.“ |
| „For peace of mind, cultivate skill of detachment by ignoring desires of the mind.“ |
| „Key to peacefulness is doing stuff and observing.“ |
| „Cognitive reframing is the most effective coping skill.“ |
| „When you subvocalize your mantra or affirmation, it gets deeper into your soul, because brain activates orbitofrontal cortex and frontal lobe instead of usual cerebellum.“ |
| „Instead of asking yourself, “How do I create something new?” ask yourself, “How can I change something old to make it feel new?” |
| „Stretching tends to feel good because it activates your parasympathetic nervous system and increases blood flow to your muscles.“ |
| „Even when your skills are mediocre, an astute combination of mediocrity can turn you into something priceless.“ |
| „Finding the good stuff can be done by exploiting survivor bias. As someone informed me, the good stuff is whatever costs more than $100 in a pawn shop or an antique store.“ |
| „Arguing works if you make a good case and leave them some room for retreat. You may find that their position is a bit softer the next time X comes up in conversation.“ |
| „Things that work: Dogs, vegetables, index funds, jogging, sleep, lists, learning to cook, drinking less alcohol, surrounding yourself with people you trust and admire.“ |
| „Prioritize your health. Like it or not, you’re a physical object.“ |
| „Desire paths should be paved. For example – you leave once-worn clothes on a furniture. So you should get a coat racks or make a dedicated space for them.“ |
| „If you’re going to take the desire path no matter what, blocking it is counterproductive.“ |
| „In reality, suffering is bad for you. If you suffer, you’ll hate running. If you hate running, you’ll stop. So not suffering is your top priority.“ |
| „Keeping a list of what other people are doing and proactively helping when you can is a cheat code for a good life.“ |
| „An unexpected gift at an unexpected time is the key to someone’s heart.“ |
| „Ten years ago I made the decision to never correct anyone who’s wrong unless I’m paid to do that. Never been happier.“ |
| „Give people what they want in a way they’re not expecting.“ |
| „If I can’t control it, how can I use it to my advantage?“ |
| „Creativity starts with taking the known – don’t reinvent wheel, at least not yet, and adapting it to fit your own needs.“ |
| „Great performance lies in small tweaks in commonly available knowledge.“ |
| „The best way to think is to write.“ |
| „Je důležité vědět, co sluší mému ksichtu, očím a tvaru obličeje, a ne, co se mi líbí.“ |
| „You’re always a 15 minute walk away from a better mood.“ |
| „Become what you want to see in the world, and the world will return it to you.“ |
| „Specific knowledge is found by pursuing your genuine curiosity and passion.“ |
| „Leverage is a force multiplier for your judgement.“ |
| „The selfish reason to be ethical is that it attracts the other ethical people in the network.“ |
| „Learn what drives the human and facilitate it with your exposure.“ |
| „It’s required for happiness to get really attached to mundane things. I have few jackets I really love, my instruments, my dog, my child, my girlfriend. I can really treasure these things because they fill up so much of my life. I don’t value having them, I value experiencing life with them.“ |
| „Numeracy is harder to acquire and more accepted to be bad it. Basic mathematics is probably more important than anything else. Nothing fancy – just basic stats.“ |
| „Give yourself permission to create junk. Most of what you create will be mediocre or bad. But that’s okay. You only have to show people the good stuff. Make 100 things, discard 90, and share the 10 best. Write, write, write, edit, edit, edit.“ |
| „It is also apparent that in walking one constantly gets as close to well-being as possible, even if one does not quite reach it—but by sitting still, and the more one sits still, the closer one comes to feeling ill.“ |
| „Never travel with what you can’t afford to lose.“ |
| „Make accomplishing things as easy as possible.“ |
| „If it’s worth doing, it’s worth doing poorly.“ |
| „The cheat code is the work you’re avoiding.“ |
| „Inspiration comes on the twenty-fifth attempt, not the first. Inspiration reveals itself after you get the average ideas out of the way.“ |
| „The reality of your own nature should determine the speed. If you become restless, speed up. If you become winded, slow down.“ |
| „The ‚gift of fear‘ – if something is triggering your survival instinct, it’s best to listen to it. Fear helps us survive.“ |
| „The most basic reason for meditation is to control your attention.“ |
| „Once you’re calm and fit, you have everything worth having, as the rest just comes and goes.“ |
| „Improving life with autism is about reshaping your relationship with your body.“ |
| „Move the body, rest the mind.“ |
| „Always strive to give value before you ask for value.“ |
| „The most intelligent men, like the strongest, find their happiness where others would find only disaster: in the labyrinth, in being hard with themselves and with others, in effort; their delight is in self mastery; in them asceticism becomes second nature, a necessity, an instinct. They regard a difficult task as a privilege; it is to them a recreation to play with burdens that would crush all others.“ – Friedrich Nietzsche |
| „This is how you become a writer: just pick one of the things that is deeply wrong with you. Make it a character. Now send it on a self-help journey or try to kill it. Now call it a book.“ – someone on bluesky |
| „It doesn’t matter what position you find yourself in right now. What matters is whether you improve your position today. Every ordinary moment is an opportunity to make the future easier or harder. It all depends on whether you’re thinking clearly.“ |
| „The easy, conversational tone of good writing comes only on the eighth rewrite.“ |
| „Share enough to make conversation easy for the other person.“ – Charisma on Command on youtube |
| „If you want new ideas, read old books.“ |
| „The real leverage is in finding and fixing the bottlenecks.“ |
| „Focus on the body to free the mind.“ – Thich Nhat Hanh |
| „To learn, wander. To achieve, focus.“ |
| „You are better equipped to deal with stress when you are moving.“ |
| „Think about the little things you enjoy, then turn around and do them for someone else.“ |
| „The fundamental algorithm of life: repeat what works.“ |
| „The bigger the issue, the smaller you write. Remember that. You don’t write about the horrors of war. No. You write about a kid’s burnt socks lying on the road. You pick the smallest manageable part of the big thing, and you work off the resonance.“ – Richard Price |
| „We should not try to alter circumstances but to adapt ourselves to them as they really are, just as sailors do.“ – Bion of Borysthenes |
| „If you want to get paid, find the contrast. No one hears you if you sneeze in the middle of New York. But if you sneeze in a library, everyone does. The same concept applies to work. It’s better to dominate a small pond than drown in an ocean.“ |
| „So let’s review: I had a problem. The ultimate solution to my problem was to do the most obvious possible thing. But I convinced myself that wouldn’t work and spent two years trying everything else.“ |
| „If you want your mind to function in the different way, change the diet of the mind.“ – Dr. K |
| „When dreaming, imagine success. When preparing, imagine failure.“ – James Clear |
| „We (bullfighters) control fear by our physical presence.“ – Martín Vázquez |
| „You need basic knowledge AND skillset. You can’t learn how to swim reading book. You need to get into water and get feedback. Then you can improve with knowledge while deliberately practicing swimming.“ |
| „Sketchy travel plans and travel to sketchy places are ok. Take a chance. If things fall apart, your vacation has just turned into an adventure. Perfection is for watches. Trips should be imperfect. There are no stories if nothing goes amiss.“ – Kevin Kelly |
| „In games that you can’t win, the only winning move is not to play.“ |
| „Whoever or whatever is in your life right now has not yet been taken away from you. Right now, we stand on sacred and holy ground, for that which will be lost has not yet been lost, and realising this is the key to unspeakable joy. Loss has already transfigured your life into an altar.“ – Jeff Foster |
| „What you build matters more than what you could have built.“ |
| „Excellence lives in doing a bit more than others.“ |
| „If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it. The same is true of any endeavor: if the solution you seek doesn’t exist, create it.“ – Toni Morrison |
| „Real success comes from making others successful.“ |
| „What obstacle can I remove today?“ |
| „The simplest way to achieve simplicity is through thoughtful reduction. When in doubt, just remove. But be careful of what you remove. … When it is possible to reduce a system’s functionality without significant penalty, true simplification is realized.“ |
| „If you’re writing a book, focus on writing the best paragraph and not the entire book. If you’re playing sports, focus on the next play and not winning the game. If you’re starting a company, focus on delighting one customer. Don’t focus on the enormity of the task, rather focus on the smallest thing you can do that moves you forward.“ |
| „Focus on one thing you can do today to make tomorrow easier. Repeat.“ |
| „Thinking in decades avoids a lot of bad behavior. If you think about relationships lasting decades, you’ll often handle the current moment differently. This works for co-workers, partners, suppliers, customers, friends, etc.“ |
| „One of the best secrets of a happy life is the art of extracting comfort and sweetness from every circumstance.“ – Thomas Mitchell |
| „Prevent your mind from dealing with existential crisis by doing the healthy stuff.“ |
| „We consider spending money a failure to solve our problems by smarter means.“ – Jacob Lund Fisker |
| „Wealth is just the accumulated leftovers after you spend what you take in. You can build wealth without a high income, but have no chance of building wealth without a high savings rate.“ |
| „One of the most powerful ways to increase your savings isn’t to raise your income. It’s to raise your humility. When you define savings as the gap between your ego and your income you realize why many people with decent incomes save so little.“ |
| „Optimism is a belief that the odds of a good outcome are in your favor over time, even when there will be setbacks along the way.“ |
| „There’s this pill that you can take that will improve your wellbeing significantly for over a month, you take one pill, and months later you’re feeling good, you’d be like, “Man, I’m going to do that.” The simple act of writing a thank you letter can do that.“ |
| „The hard path today makes an easier path tomorrow. The choice is yours, but the mountain isn’t going away.“ |
| „Joining groups whose defaults are your desires is an effective way to create an artificial environment. If you want to read more, join a book club. If you want to run more, join a running club. If you want to exercise more, hire a trainer. Your environment will do a lot of the heavy lifting for you if you align it with where you want to go.“ |
| „What if you reframed (redefined) what you’re doing to make it seem more fun? It’s not simply „doing math problems“ but rather „doing brain teasers.“ It’s not simply „exercising“ but rather „testing my body’s capabilities.“ It’s not simply „meditating“ but rather „upgrading my brain.“ |
| „I’m so glad you’re talking to me about this. It is the most beautiful first line to say to someone when they’re upset because what you’re deeply saying to them and how they receive it is “I am interested in the part of you who’s feeling this way. The part of you who’s feeling this way is connectable to me. … I want to hear more about it. I will attach to this part of you.” And when you tell that to someone, they’re automatically willing to tell you more because it’s like an opening of a door.“ |
| „Raise the bar to raise the results.“ |
| „What you really want to optimize for is (1) an income that exceeds your spending by a healthy margin and (2) a lifestyle that is free from rushing.“ |
| „The key is assembling old information in new ways.“ |
| „Real optimism is the ability to attribute the good stuff to “that’s how life is” and the bad stuff to “that’s how things are [at] this moment, but not forever.“ |
| „Your first task is to find what feels effortless to you. Your second task is to put maximum effort into it.“ |
| „Anything of value rests on a foundation built by someone else.“ |
| „When there is so much on the web, it is easy to fall prey to the impression that this has been done before when you come up with an idea. When this happens, ask: ‘What is my take on this?’“ |
| „When in doubt, do the stuff nobody else is doing.“ |
| „It’s always your fault. It’s not productive to be someone’s else fault. Because it’s yours, you can do something about it.“ |
| „Next time you’re fed up with something, treat it like you would if you were about to bail. See if that makes the bailing unnecessary. Stopping caring in stresful job before quitting can as well solve the stress of job“ |
| „You should look for the fire around a problem. If someone gets fired up when they talk about a problem they’re having, that one is worth solving. Stop solving problems that nobody’s fired up about.“ |
| „The requirement to add an intro and a conclusion to your writing is some high school language arts nonsense. We’ve all learned to skip over that noise when reading. Write the meat and be done with it.“ |
| „Treat everyone like the person you want them to be, rather than the person you think they are.“ |
| „Being enthusiastic is worth 25 IQ points.“ |
| „Luck = [Doing Things] * [Telling People]“ |
| „Whatever you’re excited about, be excited about it publicly.“ |
| „Find the good stuff, and then devour it.“ |
| „Those who shine the spotlight on others still catch some rays themselves.“ |
| „The key to success is found in being persistently generous.“ |
| „People are drawn to warmth.“ |
| „Sometimes simply asking, of a given task, “how would someone much, much better than me approach this?” immediately makes you better at it. Like, right away. It’s easier to imitate wholeness than it is to assemble it from parts.“ |
| „If anyone does anything nice for you, really go out of your way to do 10 times as much for them. Hell, even if you deliver a business deal that makes them twice as much money as you made, then buy them a gift and thank them humbly. This astounds people. No one does it.“ |
| „I can’t predict specific winners in new forms of content, I can offer a recipe for recognizing them. When you see something that’s taking advantage of new technology to give people something they want that they couldn’t have before, you’re probably looking at a winner. And when you see something that’s merely reacting to new technology in an attempt to preserve some existing source of revenue, you’re probably looking at a loser.“ |
| „Less common approach is to focus on the most general ideas and see if you can find something new to say about them. Because these start out so general, you only need a small delta of novelty to produce a useful insight. It’s doubly important not to let yourself be discouraged by people who say there’s not much new about something you’ve discovered. „Not much new“ is a real achievement when you’re talking about the most general ideas.“ |
| „Máslo se nepřipaluje, když se k němu přidá trochu rostlinného oleje.“ |
| „Relationship, not the quality of the work will get you repeated business.“ |
| „Most people also define “expertise” simply as “someone who has spent more time on a thing than I have”. The bar is depressingly low, to be honest. People should have higher standards, but they just don’t. This is a systematic weakness you can – responsibly – exploit“ |
| „It is just a good general principle to own your own distribution.“ |
| „If you’re not getting complaints about how you’re showing up everywhere, you’re not doing it enough.“ |
| „The more times you interact with the outside world, the more chances you have to get lucky.“ |
| „Do yourself a favor. Read old books (as opposed to these “how-to” manuals). What you are going to discover is that anything in them that is still true today will be true forever.“ |
| „Half-ass everything, with everything you’ve got. Very few people seem capable of deploying their full strength to hit „mediocre“ as efficiently as possible.“ |
| „Being a good listener is about two things: 1) Demonstrating that you’ve heard exactly what was said by the other person, and 2) encouraging them to continue.“ |
| „If you did a sequence of actions 3 times, make a checklist.“ |
| „When you remove the shock absorbers, you get the shocks.“ |
| „You won’t be depressed when you run.“ |
| „Slowing time is all about living presently, creating memories, and spending as much time as possible on the things that truly matter. This obviously includes removing everything from your life that speed time up. These distractions include: people who hold you back, social norms and expectations, fear, and traditional approaches.“ |
| „When an object is lost, 95% of the time it is hiding within arm’s reach of where it was last seen. Search in all possible locations in that radius and you’ll find it.“ |
| „To quiet a crowd or a drunk, just whisper.“ |
| „You need a reason to get out of bed on a terrible day.“ |
| „Have realistic expectations. Most advice isn’t followed. If you really want to have impact, focus on giving advice that is easy to follow.“ |
| „Let’s start by defining what is a curated idea. Well, at the very basic level, it’s an idea that has been filtered. The filter I like to use, is to only listen to advice from people that have achieved exactly the thing I want to achieve.“ |
| „Key strategy for controlling negative thought loops and ruminating is “distanced self-talk” — talking to youself as if you were another person. This involves calling yourself by name and using non-first pronouns like “you”. „ |
| „See all human behaviour as one of two things: either love, or a call for love.“ – Marianne Williamson |
| „When you work from a place of good foundation, everything you do will be three times better.“ |
| „Where people are expected to talk to each other, all you need is „Hi, I don’t think I have met you yet. I’m…“ |
| „The cheaper your pleasures, you happier you will be.“ |
| „Prioritize, plan, execute.“ |
| „One of the ways out of the depression is to increase in service to other people.“ |
| „Use your breath as a source of stability.“ |
| „(so I decided) I am going to adopt self-consciously as my narrative that I am the happiest person anybody knows.“ |
| „The key to happiness – it’s all about being in the present free of expectations.“ |
| „Skill needed for a test is information recall, not mass retention. Reading chapter once and then trying to recall it is much efficient than reading it twice.“ |
| „Remember two overarching principles: 1) the more time you spend in nature, the better, and 2) the wilder the nature, the better. Get out there as much as you can.“ |
| „Know how to become funnier if you’re not naturally gifted at comedy. Simply say the stupidest things that enter your head, in a normal tone of voice.“ |
| „In a world of scarcity, instant gratification is the optimal strategy. In a world of abundance, delayed gratification is the optimal strategy.“ |
| „Run in a gliding fashion, keeping the knees close together and always one foot on the ground.“ |
| „Long-term thinking eliminates a lot of poor behavior.“ |
| „If people you respect are repeatedly giving you advice that doesn’t make sense, consider that you might be missing something.“ |
| „To block out your internal monologue practice expanding your peripheral vision. The trick is to keep your vision as ‚open‘ as possible, not to focus on anything unless it’s necessary for a specific task.“ |
| „Increase your value. Open up front of your body. Smile mentally. Talk louder. Make pauses and breath through your nose. End sentences lower.“ |
| „Life rewards what is hard to do.“ |
| „Express polite disagreement by acknowledging something you agree first.“ |
| „Responsibility. That’s where the meaning of life is.“ |
| „Education drives motivation for change. It happens automatically then.“ |
| „When you put yourself together, people will present opportunities to you.“ |
| „If you want to experience holiness, go up to the mountain.“ |
| „Staring at something for a short time has been proven to improve and boost mental focus on subsequent tasks.“ |
| „If you’re trying to do the right thing, the right thing might be to eliminate the cost of making a mistake rather than try to guess what’s right.“ |
| „Ask people what they want and give them that.“ |
| „Reframe nervousness as excitement. Just switch polarity, it’s the same neurological path anyway.“ |
| „Ask yourself a question just before sleep. You will get your answer by tomorrow.“ |
| „If life is falling apart, that implies that there was an order that you wanted to maintain. But no order can ever be maintained. Is it worth saving? Or is it worth building something new? Start small. Connect with others. Build something new. Give shape to another, more interesting puzzle.“ |
| „Live as if you’ve died and come back. Every minute is bonus time.“ |
| „If the dominating color of a graphic t-shirt is dark, pair with a lighter bottom. And vice versa.“ |
| „The goal of the wedding speech is to celebrate the couple and make them look good.“ |
| „Once you aim, the world will reconfigure itself to match that aim. Be careful what you aim at. And there can be always a better aim.“ |
Relationships
| „The conversation is not about the relationship. The conversation IS the relationship.“ – Susan Scott |
| „Mentor takes responsibility for your progress but takes no credit.“ |
| „Forming of a relationship is basically mutual opening of your shells.“ |
| „It’s the autistic love language of „Penguin Pebbling.“ |
| „A good marriage is one in which each spouse secretly thinks he or she got the better deal, and this is true also of our friendships.“ |
| „Never gave up because the upsides to a good relationship are so high.“ |
| „To understand a person, observe his/her parents of the opposite sex. A person’s ability to love comes from parents of the opposite sex, and discipline comes from same-sex parents.“ |
| „Engage people on emotional level.“ |
| „There’s a trick to the Graceful Exit. It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life stage, a relationship is over—and to let go. It means leaving what’s over without denying its value.“ – Ellen Goodman |
| „Take off the mask you use to fit in. And don’t let others to put their’s back on once they toss it away.“ |
| „People are starving to get into conversation, believe it or not.“ |
| „Part of feeling your life is robust is being seen.“ |
| „Listening to win is, ‚Let me make the problem go away by telling you you don’t have a problem.‘ Listening to learn is getting underneath what’s being said and reflecting back to the person. And listening to fix is, ‚Let me take your problem and solve it for you, or help you solve it.’“ |
| „Where there is a certainty you guild trip somebody, correct the other way around – „I am not saying to put your phone down, it’s just I feel overlooked when you do that.“ – and let them their freedom to choose.“ |
| „People with history of trauma will become mind readers. But it’s just a survival mechanism of a mind primed to lookout for danger. It’s not telling the truth.“ |
| „That’s your family and best friends. If you don’t have a family, create one. Most people in life are only visitors. Family is for life.“ |
| „Curing loneliness comes from providing value to others.“ |
| „You need to be surrounded by people who hold you to higher standard.“ |
| „You are the leader, if you ask a question: „How’s your day?“ and you actually want to hear the answer.“ |
| „If you see attractive girl, picture her as male version of herself. Works wonders.“ |
| „Problem with polygamy is that is subjects to pareto distribution.“ |
| „There’s no fun in taming someone who is already tame.“ |
| „There is nothing more attractive then being casual.“ |
| „People will tell you amazing things if you listen to them. It’s like getting little tools for your Batman toolbox.“ |
| „People are thinking less of themselves. Help them out and praise the good in them.“ |
| „Be kind to less intelligent people because the world is not.“ |
| „Attractiveness is based on a sum of your non-needy behaviour.“ |
| „We behave in needy ways when we feel bad about ourselves.“ |
| „If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.“ – John Quincy Adams |
Thinking
| „Like mental states, ideas are contagious.“ |
| „Kdo hledáte klid, nechť vás lesy obejmou.“ |
| „The answer to your challenge is a different question.“ |
| „Writing is often the process by which you realize that you do not understand what you are talking about.“ |
| „What does this narrative do to my being?“ |
| „Stay humble in your pursuit.“ |
| „Will this choice enlarge me or diminish me?“ |
| „Let your brain think.“ |
| „Go to the source. Read original book. Find facts. Form your own perspective and then only seek thoughts of other people. Do your own cognitive heavy lifting.“ |
| „If it affects you, what will you do about it?“ |
| „Are you a flame of a candle, or a moth?“ |
| „Do you want to be right, or do you want to be learning? Or put that way – do you want to be tyrannical king who has everything figured out, or do you want be continuously transforming hero, or fool, who is getting better all the time?“ |
| „Look at you. You are useless. Easily hurt. Easily killed. Why you should have any self respect.“ |
| „You want a horizon of ever expanding possibility.“ |
| „You, that you identify with YOU – that’s the ego.“ |
| „Writing can be an exercise in a sustained thought.“ |
| „You need to understand other’s point of view so well, you can summarize it for them.“ |
| „The dialog is a mental hygiene. When you summarize the thoughts of others back to them, you remove them of all the informational baggage, like you prune a tree of dead weight and branches.“ |
| „We organize our brains by talking. And by writing too to that extend.“ |
| „There are parts of our psyché which are not under our control.“ |
| „Your personality influences your perception.“ |
| „Your consciousness is continually building your unconsciousness.“ |
| „Sense of meaning is an instinct that orients people in time and space.“ |
| „Meaning means you are positioned correctly between an order and chaos.“ |
| „We outsource our sanity.“ |
| „When in doubt, choose to show MORE gratitude.“ |
| „An excessively deeply thinking man must realize he can go mad.“ |
| „Call attention to what is.“ |
| „You rise until you equilibrate.“ |
| „Acceptance leads to freedom.“ |
| „Ne všechno je naše zrcadlo.“ |
| „Boredom is just introspection in disguise.“ |
| „The ego is the you that you think you are.“ |
| „Pokud si to myslíš ty, může si to myslet každý.“ |
| „Asking “what-if?” about your past is a waste of time; asking “what-if?” about your future is tremendously productive.“ |
| „The written word is meaningless and nonsense unless it is assimilated as a life experience.“ |
| „Restlessness is a sign you’ve overstayed your welcome with where you are and need to leave by moving toward the person you can be. Our love of stability keeps us where we are. The key is to leave just before you’re ready. If you leave too late, you miss the opportunity.“ |
| „Ethics are important when designing habits. They only complicate life on day-to-day basis.“ |
| „Law of diminishing return is about that at some point, more of the same stops paying off.“ |
| „The best way I know to fix difficult problem fast, is by getting a ton of exposure to new curated ideas. Trying to come up with the solution just using your own imagination, is quite an inefficient process.“ |
| „The soul is dyed the color of its leisure thoughts.“ |
| „All the great questions have only personal answers.“ |
| „Specific knowledge is knowledge that you cannot be trained for.“ |
| „Try to disprove your best loved ideas.“ |
| „At the end of the day, it’s all about concentration of the mind.“ |
| „Concentrated mind is like a laser. When the light isn’t diluted, it burns through. If mind isn’t concentrated, it wanders around.“ |
| „Be careful not to be influenced by people who are playing a different game than you are.“ |
| „(In economics) the nature of any equilibrium achieved depends partly on the process of getting there.“ |
| „Essentially we experience awe when we encounter something of such magnitude and grandeur that we reach the horizon of our comprehension and our chattering mental dialogue short-circuits.“ |
| „Making choices and attempting transformation from a place of fear and hatred begets more fear and hatred.“ |
| „How do I position myself where my natural traits are assets?“ |
| „A lot of advantages can be gained simply by avoiding the standard paths to failure.“ |
| „If you’re your own boss, you can move fast. When ideas have to be implemented overnight, speed, flexibility, and authority to make decisions without consulting shareholders are of utmost importance.“ |
| „Thought is not chosen – no thought is chosen. All thoughts just appear.“ |
| „Do you want new wants?“ |
| „In face of complex problem… instead of thinking, look. Maybe that’s the bitter lesson for real life.“ |
| „The only model for success is to avoid most of the world’s models for success.“ – Mark Manson |
| „You will avoid negative things that threaten your identity like failure, loss, and rejection. But you will also avoid positive things that threaten your identity – even things like success, love, and happiness.“ – Mark Manson |
| „Learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience.“ |
| „When you first start to study a field, it seems like you have to memorize a zillion things. You don’t. What you need is to identify the core principles – generally three to twelve of them – that govern the field.“ |
| „Paper isn’t that great as a store of information. You can’t search, cross-references are iffy, and it’s hard to copy or modify. Nobody I know really often their old paper notes. So don’t optimize for storage. Optimize for thinking.“ |
| „Two elements contribute to clear visions of the future: new observations and new information. To do new things, you have to be looking at new things. New observations spawn new questions and those can generate fresh answers.“ – Brett Steenbarger |
| „The best path to the “aha!” moment is to look at many things in many ways—truly to play with perceptions and ideas.“ |
| „The root of heuristic thinking is the ability to relate new experiences to old, already processed information: „Oh, this looks like that.“ A heuristic is a rule of thumb, a cognitive shortcut that can quickly find the answer to a problem that might otherwise be intractable. They are extremely fast and efficient |
| „Beliefs are placebos. You’ve got to believe whatever works for you.“ |
| „Close eyes when thinking.“ |
| „An initial period of concentration — conscious, directed attention — needs to be followed by some amount of unconscious processing.“ |
| „To listen to your resentment is one of the best thing you can possibly do.“ |
| „IQ predicts how rapidly you can learn something.“ |
| „Creativity is the focused combination of unlikely things. Your mind locks onto a certain element and then searches widely for something unexpected that fits with it. What can scuba diving teach you about agriculture? What can trees teach you about public speaking? There is always some connective tissue between disciplines. If you wish to be more creative, look for the connections between two previously unconnected things.“ |
| „When you need to think, let the silence sit.“ |
| „Are you in touch with your own shadow?“ |
| „Making better decision is based on understanding the rationale behind the previous decision.“ |
| „Error is infinite source of information. As a dragon it can take you down, but it also posses the treasure at the same time.“ |
| „Wisdom is knowing the long-term consequences of your actions. Wisdom applied to external problems is judgment.“ |
| „Peace and contentment is the cessation of the fluctuation of the mind.“ |
| „Stop trying to figure out things so elegantly. Be a little idiotic and distrust your mind. Where does your mind led you anyway in all its brilliance?“ |
| „Core training of the monks is to look at their reactions.“ |
| „Awareness precedes control the same way diagnosis precedes treatment.“ |
| „We can only measure what’s external. But we see don’t internal work that lead to that point. So we fall into a trap – if I do what I see he does, I will feel the same as him.“ |
| „Ego is who you think you are, not who you are.“ |
| „Being healthy critical is about pointing out where I am, not where I should be.“ |
| „Information doesn’t change your mind. Experience does.“ |
| „If you wish to not get stuck, seek to perceive what you have not yet perceived.“ |
| „The independent-minded are the gluttons of curiosity, who keep eating even after they’re full.“ |
| „Entertainment versus education ratio – where are you now?“ |
| „What you think other people owe you, you owe yourself.“ |
| „You need extremely complex mental maps, that take time and experience to develop. And they don’t develop, when all you do is simple.“ |
| „Develop an articulate philosophy of evil. You need a better framework.“ |
| „Your perceptions manifest themselves, using your body as a vehicle for their activity.“ |
| „Thinking allows our thoughts to die instead of us.“ |
| „Thoughts are internalized speech. The other way around – quality of our thoughts is dependent on our ability to speak our minds.“ |
| „You don’t know enough, and you can tell because your life is not what it could be. Nor the lives of other people.“ |
| „Intelectual brilliance is not a moral superiority.“ |
| „Guesses aren’t random. All are educated ones. You aim like an archer for the bull’s eye, and do everything you can to make it close as possible.“ |
| „Success involves decisions making skills. Exercising your power to execute decisions is your pathway to success. Indecisiveness will get you nowhere.“ |
| „Attention is the teacher of the intellect.“ |
| „Consciousness constantly balances between allowing imperfection and aiming towards perfection.“ |
| „Objective world will object to any of your errors in judgement.“ |
| „Surprises are a clue that you’re missing something. Dive and figure out what.“ |
| „Man who doesn’t read is no different to the man who can’t read.“ |
| „People think by talking. And in order to think you have to have somebody to listen.“ |
| „Hardly anyone can think, and even they can only think about limited number of things. But almost everybody can talk.“ |
| „When in doubt, check your intentions.“ |
| „When you recieve advice, consider its opposite as well. You might be filtering the one you need.“ |
| „To start defining your problems, say out loud: „Everything in my life is completely fine.“ Notice what objections arise.“ |
| „If something is terrifying you, pay more attention to it.“ |
| „When something undesirable happens, what is the narrowest point of view on it, and what minimal change in behaviour I must make to prevent it from repeating?“ |
| „Calm mind isn’t free of stress or conflict, it’s above them, coping with them. It’s the ability to reason and then respond.“ |
| „Accuracy of forecast stays the same, confidence in it raise with amount of incoming information.“ |
| „What you consume today become the raw material you utilise tomorrow.“ |
| „Error is a manifestation of the excluded world in the work of your current understanding.“ |
| „If you survey enough people, all of the advice will cancel to zero. You have to have your own point of view.“ |
| „If you tend to get stressed out or reactive around certain family members, you can be sure there’s a pattern at play. After all, where there’s reactivity, there’s a wound.“ |
| „Junk values don’t meet your psychological needs, just like junk food don’t meet your nutritional needs.“ |
| „Your inner force can turn you into tyrant, coward or a hero. These are your options.“ |
| „If you want to know what someone think, don’t infect them with what you think. Quarantine your opinion.“ |
| „Decision is good when upside potential compensate for the downside risk.“ |
| „Knowledge is the road between the „no information“ and „perfect information“. |
| „Without great judgement, none of your skills matter. And judgement is knowing the long-term consequences of your actions.“ |
| „Choose from a place of comfort and security.“ |
| „How do you feel about [blank]? Have no opinion? Well, try finding stuff out until you do.“ |
| „The best choices compound. Most of the benefits come at the end, not the beginning. The best decisions have little to no immediate payoff.“ |
| „Working to understand the natural world counts as creating rather than consuming.“ |
| „You burn out the things that prevents integration of shadow. You can let things go if you know there are new things to come. And you need to do it regularly like a snake shedding its skin.“ |
Trading
| „Trading is not so much about making money; it’s ultimately about making correct decisions. If you consistently make good decisions, your account will grow accordingly.“ |
| „You don’t treat trading as a business. You treat yourself like an olympian athlete on the rise.“ |
| „The more you enjoy the actual process of trading, the more successful you’re likely to be.“ |
| „Risk – your exposure to the downside.“ |
| „Trading is a thinking game.“ |
| „Winning in trading is just landing on the good side of profitability.“ |
| „Trading forces self mastery.“ |
| „My job is to perform well.“ |
| „What does it mean to be a professional? I think the answer is that a professional shows up for work and does the right thing.“ |
| „We (traders) cultivate will: the ability to formulate goals and direct our actions toward reaching those goals. When you enhance your performance as a trader, you replace a small piece of randomness with intention.“ |
| „The short-term crowd is always too distracted to notice the long-term crowd slowly compounding.“ |
| „Risk is never eliminated, only shifted somewhere else.“ |
| „Change your image of a „trader“, because you have nothing to do with wins or losses. You are nothing more than executor of the system, someone who accurately generates wins and losses of the system. There is no FOMO, no anxiety, no fear—just the job given to you.“ |
| „As with any sport or activity, practice mimics the actual performance.“ |
| „The markets take the stairs up and the elevator down.“ |
| „The edge lies beyond numerous losing streaks and drawdowns.“ |
| „Solve via iteration. Then get paid via repetition.“ |
| „Find your edge first, then work on your discipline.The interesting thing is, once you find your edge, discipline becomes 10x easier.“ |
| „At the end of the day, high-level athletics and trading share a common thread—both are about mastering yourself.“ |
| „Perseverance, discipline, and letting go of the outcome are three key skills. Every day, you have to show up, put in the work, and trust that the results will follow. But even more than that, you have to learn how to embrace pressure and see it as a privilege—a chance to prove to yourself that you can perform when it matters most.“ |
| „The trading world is less about possessing the most intricate tool in the toolbox and more about knowing when to use even the simplest of tools to your advantage.“ |
| „Building wealth in this business is about compounding the returns you’ve made from previous cycles. If you throw it all away after every reversal, then you can’t grow.“ |
| „When you’re a good futures trader, everything you do hurts.“ |
| „Inputs for stuff that is sensitive to inaccuracies such as Kelly, must be dynamic due to the non-stationary nature of what we do.“ |
| „Edge principle: x tends to get mispriced when y happens because z.“ |
| „If you know other people are making money trading an idea, it is often a good idea to pursue it too. This isn’t school. The market gods give no prizes for originality or showing your work. An edge is an edge however you got to it. But be smart about it.“ |
| „What can I do today to earn money today with what I have today?“ |
| „It’s not discipline problem, it’s confidence problem. You haven’t put in enough effort to build your confidence.“ |
| „Your trading success is going to depend on you being able to do the same thing over and over.“ |
| „The essential work of trading, however, is finding opportunity—and that is fundamentally a creative activity.“ – Brett Steenbarger |
| „Being aware of the risks is enlightenment, not a curse. Knowing that the sun will burn out someday is not a bad thing to know. Knowing that driving at 80 km/hour will cause 16 times the impact as driving one-fourth that speed is beneficial to know, in that enlightenment allows us to better assess those risks we wish to take.“ – Ralph Vince |
| „Everything that works is pretty simple.“ – Adam Grimes |
| „Every edge we have, as technical traders, comes from an imbalance of buying and selling pressure.“ – Adam Grimes |
| „Famous traders in our history made extravagant wealth from growth and not the random fluctuations of hours or even days.“ |
| „Only a dip before the volatile breakout on your equity curve.“ |
| „Probably the first step to being a winning trader is getting rid of most of the self-doubt. When you „know that you know“ you are on your way. Mentally, and physically, at that point you have become a professional. Why? Well, I thinks it’s because you are no longer the effect of the market … you are the cause of what you are doing.“ – Larry Williams |
| „Trading is about finding weak stocks and getting short at levels that offer an excellent risk/reward.Trading is about finding strong stocks and getting long at levels that offer an excellent risk/reward. Do not make things so complicated.“ |
| „Discipline is the outcome of the right mental framework, emotional skills (largely including the systematic desensitization to the stimuli of trading achieved over many years of exposure), and process. These things matter, and perhaps we don’t focus on them enough.“ |
| „What if a path to elite trading is active trading, active collection of detailed data on our trading, and the continuous making of small adjustments?“ |
| „You are most likely to become consistent in your trading if you are consistent in working on your trading. The consistency and intensity of your work on yourself will shape your rate of progression.“ |
Training
| „Athlete able to deliver additional ground force of only one tenth of their bodyweight would realize an increase in maximum speed of one full meter per second.“ |
| „Weight training for athletes, in any sport, should be focused only on strength and to do so means focusing exclusively on Type IIB fibers for strength with minimal mass.“ |
| „The general rule is to set protein intake per pound of LEAN MASS.“ |
| „Only by pushing ourselves to our limits — and then breaking them — can we reach our full potential.“ |
| „Push your heels through the floor – use it to lift weights more capably.“ |
| „There’s no such thing as overtraining. It’s under-recovery.“ |
| „For testosterone production, the explosive movement over a large amount of muscle volume really does help elicit a bigger anabolic hormone response.“ |
| „Great strength is a result of two factors…(1) individual potential, which cannot be improved…and (2) hard training, which will increase the strength of almost anybody. But a third factor exists as a prerequisite…NORMAL HEALTH, without which, reaching the limits of potential strength is simply impossible. So you can improve a sick individual in some cases, but you can NOT turn a normal individual into a superman by chemical means.“ |
| „Real fat loss is hard and slow. Anybody who says otherwise is trying to sell you something,“ |
| „If you don’t feel psychologically challenged by a workout, it’s too easy.“ |
| „Certain exercises done in certain ways using certain tools and exerting certain intensities invariably produce certain results. Body has to adapt.“ |
| „Temporary retention of fluids in heavy training can result in up to 2 kilograms of increase in weight.“ |
| „I was coming up with mantras today while running: Suffer more. Push harder. Go for glory. Suffering is glorious. The last one is my favorite.“ |
World-view
| „To control the experience, you have to control the mind.“ |
| „Isn’t the point of art less what people put into it, and more what people get out of it?“ – from Bojack Horseman |
| „What if your setback is really just a setup for your next breakthrough?“ |
| „Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.“ — Anne Lamott |
| „Life is hard. Relationships are hard. Being a good person in the world is hard. Business is a subset of all of those things, and in some ways a magnifier. But the hard of business is no different than the hard of life. But nobody suggests you avoid life because it’s hard. Nobody says, “Oh, life is too risky. Better to die early and save yourself the trouble.” Nobody says, “Oh, are you sure you want life? My sister’s best friend’s cousin’s husband’s brother had a real problem with his.” |
| “Don’t you think dreams and the internet are similar?” Paprika asks Otsuka at one point. “They are both areas where the repressed conscious mind vents.” |
| „In a world where apathy rules, five or ten percent (of people) is an enormous number.“ |
| „Life is a series of closing doors.“ |
| „Be a light in the darkness.“ |
| „What can you do today that you couldn’t do a year ago?“ |
| „Benign selfishness – not harming anybody, just doing what feels right.“ |
| „Be a good ancestor. Do something a future generation will thank you for. A simple thing is to plant a tree.“ |
| „Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.“ — Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| „Personal evolution is a choice. It’s an approach to life.“ |
| „You choose either data that raise you up, or data that put you down.“ |
| „Blindly trust the process.“ |
| „Internet consumes everything.“ |
| „Watching porn is watching some other man fucking a women you are attracted to. How any more pathetic can it be?“ |
| „We are given countless second chances in life.“ |
| „What’s behind the game you are playing?“ |
| „Women are nature, because they select. It’s not symbolic. They are gatekeepers for specie survival. Evolve or die.“ |
| „Your rights are my responsibility.“ |
| „You can’t be weak if you prepare yourself for a battle.“ |
| „You need to be armed with virtue to not to turn your world in hell.“ |
| „You wanna be like an active warrior, climbing a hill with your sword in hand. That’s dynamic, that’s exiting. That’s why young men disappear into videogames. That’s all acted out in them.“ |
| „Opposite of disgust is purity.“ |
| „You are a product of unbelievable number of deaths.“ |
| „You are home whenever you know what to do.“ |
| „How do you do your job?“ |
| „You play an integral role of maintaining of the structure that supports you.“ |
| „We are beasts of burden. We need a load.“ |
| „Conservatism is the immune system of society.“ |
| „The other person is entitled to their suffering. You don’t take it away. From this position, you don’t need to take their problems as your, they are their to solve them.“ |
| „Politics is deliberately making things better for some people by deliberately making them worse for others.“ |
| „Did you know madness sets you free?“ |
| „You are who you attract.“ |
| „Bored people are boring.“ |
| „Life is anti-entropic process.“ |
| „Everyone is working off of their current best guess.“ |
| „Emotion is biological action potential.“ |
| „The purpose of life is individualized.“ |
| „A good idea taken to the extreme is always a bad idea.“ |
| „Pure observing, or watching yourself, doesn’t feel good nor bad. It just is. It’s a third way of operating and living.“ |
| „Start with an idea that you suck at life. That’s when your life will begin.“ |
| „‚Enough‘ is just a concept. There is only what is.“ |
| „Too often, we run our lives to reduce stress, not to maximize well-being.“ |
| „The world loves a winner, and a winner loves the world. Life is easy then… all green lights and blue skies.“ |
| „Speech is a modified exhale.“ |
| „A lack of patience changes the outcome.“ |
| „Disorder is not a mistake; it is our default. Order is always artificial and temporary.“ |
| „It will be all right, just let it be.“ |
| „There is no point in being afraid of the inevitable.“ |
| „Good work is the art of giving a fuck about the living.“ |
| „Aim to be effective, but unpredictable. That is, you want to act in a way that AIs have trouble modeling or imitating. That makes you irreplaceable.“ |
| „We are notes in life’s melody, not its composer.“ |
| „Living each day if it were your last achieves nothing, bar an exceptional readiness to die.“ |
| „Extreme ideas become mainstream incrementally, by sort of creeping up a ladder where gradually higher-status people are willing to talk about them.“ |
| „Evolution doesn’t care if you’re happy. Evolution only wants you to pass on your genes.“ |
| „If you can’t be a fan, don’t be a critic.“ |
| „Víra znamená, že ať se děje cokoli, věříš tomu, že nad tebou někdo bdí. A důvěřuješ mu, že všechno zařídí dobře. Znamená, že ze všeho je cesta ven.“ |
| „Aby člověk věřil, musí chtít věřit. Ve věcech, které někomu připadají nahodilé, vidí věřící člověk zázrak. Znamení. Milovaná osoba se začne uzdravovat z nemoci, někdo uzavře výhodný obchod, dostane příležitost setkat se s přítelem, kterého dlouhou dobu neviděl. Obyčejné lidi nedělaly věřícími doktríny ani velké ideály, ale kouzlo obyčejného světa kolem nich.“ |
| „The healing is found in the suffering.“ |
| „Games are fun, because they give us an abstract sense of us being the one doing the actions, instead of just watching them.“ |
| „I don’t search for great strategies, I make them.“ |
| „Nobody breaks down on purpose.“ |
| „Freedom, ideally, is being able to choose your responsibilities.“ |
| „The age at which we become old is the age at which we determine that our best years are behind us.“ |
| „Suppose we are all like Clark Kent: an ordinary person on the outside with hidden superpowers and also a vulnerability to Kryptonite.“ |
| „We are superheroes with super vulnerabilities.“ |
| „Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.“ – Ayn Rand |
| „Dr. Miller says we are pessimistic because life seems like a very bad, very screwed-up film. If you ask „What the hell is wrong with the projector?“ and go up to the control room, you find it’s empty. You are the projectionist, and you should have been up there all the time.“ – Colin Wilson |
| „It is not desirable to rule in hell or to serve in heaven; far preferable, to paraphrase Ayn Rand, is to fight for tomorrow’s Valhalla in order to walk its halls today.“ |
| „Universal appeal means universal indifference.“ |
| „Best investments have long feedback loops.“ |
| „A fit body, a calm mind, a house full of love. These things cannot be bought – they must be earned.“ |
| „The rarest thing you possess is your own potential.“ |
| „Old and boring has a general tendency of beating new and shiny.“ |
| „It’s important to look at everything you do as an art to be mastered. Anything and everything takes some level of skill that can be mastered. Could be as simple as walking.“ |
| „Mastery is contagious. When you master the little simple things, the bigger ones become light weight and easier to master.“ |
| „The future is unevenly distributed because of how technically illiterate people are.“ |
| „Idea that we can somehow make AI safe is absurd. It’s a logical contraction, because it doesn’t have its own desires. It’s not solving new problems that we didn’t know. It’s largely doing intellectual drudgery – translation, transcription, coding, driving, categorization. This is what AI excels at.“ |
| „Health and salvation can be found only in motion.“ |
| „The closer you are to the truth, the more silent you become inside.“ |
| „Modern society will shame you for earning money, shame you for being happy, shame you for being raised well, shame you for having children, and ultimately, shame you for existing. It isn’t just religion that controls you by declaring you a sinner.“ |
| „Nature doesn’t care about being convenient or politically correct.“ |
| „Grief is love’s natural continuation.“ |
| „I mute the nitpickers, block the outraged, like the kind, follow the insightful.“ |
| „Jsou dva dny v týdnu, kdy nemůžeš nic udělat. Včerejšek a zítřek.“ |
| „A happy person isn’t someone who’s happy all the time. It’s someone who effortlessly interprets events in such a way that they don’t lose their innate peace.“ |
| „The story you emphasize is the one you notice.“ |
| „Simple solutions to complex problems are always appealing to people of low engagement and/or low intelligence.“ |
| „I believe it’s hard to practice „memento mori“ until you’ve experienced significant loss. Then you can feel its full gravity.“ |
| „Loss can plant the seed of deep gratitude for all the love that remains.“ |
| „This is a lens on life where you’ve already attended everyone’s funeral and you’ve been gifted the ability to go back and still be with them.“ |
| „The secret to life is to waste time in ways you like.“ |
| „The idea is to die young as late as possible.“ |
| „The love of your fate.“ – Whatever your fate is, whatever the hell happens, you say, „This is what I need.“ It may look like a wreck, but go at it as though it were an opportunity, a challenge. If you bring love to that moment — not discouragement — you will find the strength is there. Any disaster you can survive is an improvement in your character, your stature, and your life. What a privilege!“ |
| „The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.“ – Albert Camus |
| „By seeing beyond the front and center, we find an abundance of reasons to love this world as it is, despite its flaws.“ |
| „It’s about seeing what is there that we no longer notice. Countless treasures get rendered into the background as we age and our constructs of the world solidify.“ |
| „Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.“ – Albert Camus |
| „Common sense is a superpower these days. Common sense is not a flower that grows in everyone’s garden.“ |
| „In your totality, you are a category of one. A category of one, by definition, cannot be compared.“ |
| „You need enough persistence to keep working and enough flexibility to enjoy success when it comes in a different form than you imagined.“ |
| „You are under no obligation to be the same person you were five minutes ago.“ – Alan Watts |
| „All behavior is always multifactorial with multiple levels of causality: evolution + genes/epigenetics + prenatal environment + sensory environment + hormone levels + neural plasticity + culture + traumas + stress + mood + nutrition + subliminal/unconscious + more—and factoring it all into the previous minute, this morning, the last few months, you in adolescence, you in childhood, you as a fetus, your ancestors, and more.“ |
| „Opportunities are renewable resources.“ |
| „Everything you are given is material for the next move. Everything.“ |
| „Life can only grow outward in proportion to how stable it is inward. If the joy is not in the little things first, the big things won’t fully find us.“ – Brianna Wiest |
| „The best things in life, more times than not, don’t come with a roadmap.“ |
| „Besides, the life of a writer is a lonely one. You think you are alone as the years go by, if the stars are on your side, you may discover that you are at the center of a vast circle of invisible friends whom you will never get to know but whom love you. And that is an immense reward.“ – Jorge Luis Borges |
| „Even if you’re not going to be remembered by history, you want to be remembered by your barista.“ |
| „Life is good if it squishes nicely when you poke it.“ |
| „A frictionless, unresponsive life is simply not a human one—we are born troublemakers who need to make marks.“ |
| „How quickly and responsibly we react to adversity is far more important than the adversity itself. When things change, we must change. We must struggle to our feet again and reset the sail to steer us toward the destination of our own deliberate choosing. The set of the sail—how we think and how we respond—has a far greater capacity to alter our lives than any challenges we face.“ – Jim Rohn |
| „I can’t help but wonder if all this effort we’re putting into keeping work at arm’s length is actually holding us back from being our best selves.“ |
| „The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.“ |
| „In life, everything passes, and our duty is to carry on. But we can’t carry on if we can’t play.“ |
| „People have existential peace because that’s their nature or because they’ve developed happy lives and healthy thought patterns that don’t lead to them spending their time moping around.“ |
| „If it can’t be reduced, reused, repaired, rebuilt, refurbished,refinished, resold, recycled or composted, then it should be restricted, redesigned or removed from production.“ – Pete Seeger |
| „One should always be curious. Not a passive curiosity dependent upon information received, but an aggressive curiosity that compels one to seek things out and ascertain them for oneself.“ – Issey Miyake |
| „The person who aligns themselves with the general principles of the world goes further and faster than the person who doesn’t.“ |
| „So I think that in many ways the source of our stress in modern life is the constant stimulation, the constant hits of pleasure from reaching for our phone in the morning to our morning cup of Joe to the donuts, to the Netflix binges at night, to the hookup, you name it. We’re actually experiencing stress as a result of overabundance.“ |
| „Not every closed door is locked.“ |
| „Life is about allowing yourself to be played by nature.“ – Bernardo Kastrup |
| „Mastery is the best goal because the rich can’t buy it, the impatient can’t rush it, the privileged can’t inherit it, and nobody can steal it. You can only earn it through hard work. Mastery is the ultimate status.“ – Derek Sivers |
| „History is a long, winding road, but it tends to eventually move in the right direction.“ |
| „You don’t need to have life in certain way to live a good life.“ |
| „Weak men work to preserve their own physical and psychological safety, above all else. Weakness in men is the embrace of victimhood as a core pillar of identity.“ |
| „Every lesson in life comes at the expense of unlearning another. When you learn to be confident, you unlearn to be shy. If you react with humility, you have forgotten your ego. When you’re comfortable taking risk, you ignore other’s opinions, and so on.“ |
| „A big takeaway from economic history is that the past wasn’t as good as you remember, the present isn’t as bad as you think, and the future will be better than you anticipate.“ |
| „Democracy is run on conflict-resolution mechanisms.“ |
| „No one understands a working complex system.“ |
| „The past is a Third World country.“ |
| „Without having a future to look forward and stretch to, the present becomes meaningless and unbearable.“ – Viktor Frankl |
| „I’ve contemplated the process of teaching someone to walk again. I realized that this process has a lot to do with thrusting a leg out into the terror of losing your balance, then regaining your equilibrium, moving forward, and then repeating with your other leg. Failure as loss of balance, the success of equilibrium, and you move forward. Terror of falling, confidence, regaining your balance — it’s a fascinating metaphor for life. Risk is half of the process of moving forward. The risk of failing is inherent in achieving a goal.“ |
| „The key to staying young psychologically is always having a guiding vision that we pursue intensively, challenging and inspiring us.“ |
| „Partial answer to the question of life is self-identification with the spirit that generates order out of chaos.“ |
| „You are either holding a mirror or a magnifying glass.“ |
| „Free will is a voluntary accommodation to what is in any case inevitable.“ – stoicism |
| „Beyond temporal by meditation, beyond individuality by service, beyond separation by community. In any way you like.“ |
| „Upbringing and schooling is tutorial of life. When it sucked, the game of life will take longer to understand.“ |
| „As long as you have the will to live, you can turn anywhere into paradise.“ |
| „You take shape through recognizing how you are different from others.“ |
| „Enjoyment is not about achievement. This is confusing for a lot of people.“ |
| „We chase happiness and achievements because when mind is unhappy, it seeks what it doesn’t have and thinks: „If only I had that, everything would be alright.“ |
| „There is no objective quality of art. If you don’t agree, read 1 star reviews of the most highly acclaimed books.“ |
| „It is never too late to be the champion you always wanted to be; but the days turn into weeks, and the weeks turn into months, and the months turn into years, and before you know it… your dreams are gone with the wind.“ – Tom Wiswell in his book „Education of a Speculator“ |
| „You should enjoy the little detours. To the fullest. Because that’s where you’ll find the things more important than what you want.“ |
| „Eventually, ignorance will be corrected or fraud will be stopped; but in the meantime the public suffers.“ |
| „The realization that life is absurd cannot be an end, but only a beginning.“ – Albert Camus |
| „Any artform is just an excuse to meet a human being.“ |
| „What philosophy should look like: quite general observations that would cause someone who understood them to do something differently.“ |
| „Overestimate your future, underestimate your past.“ |
| „People who evolve make the new standards.“ |
| „Lower grades teachers don’t read books on how to develop little boys and little girls. They think of ways how to silence this class so they can talk uninterrupted.“ |
| „There is so much to learn in these periods of darkness.“ |
| „You can be a pathetic monster, or you can be a monster with some power.“ |
| „We all think the thoughts of dead philosophers. We think we have our own opinions, but that’s rare.“ |
| „If you merely repeat thoughts of other people… are YOU individual at all?“ |
| „Higher classes needs to distinguish from contaminated lower classed constantly.“ |
| „The truth is always shining through.“ |
| „Evil is more of an unnecessary tragedy.“ |
| „Industry of advertising is telling you what you want from life.“ |
| The spiritual teacher Jiddu Krishnamurti said his secret was simple: „I don’t mind what happens.“ |
| „Velikost člověka se měří jeho službou druhým a společnosti. Schopností sebeobětování, láskou, velikostí a ušlechtilostí jeho ideálu, životního cíle a horizontu, za kterým člověk v životě kráčí. „ |
| „Maybe the real differences occur in the extremes.“ |
| „Alternative to valued responsibility is impulsive low-class pleasure.“ |
| „People are pack animals, they need to pull against the weight.“ |
| „Other people are WAY more like me than I think, and they try madly to cover that.“ |
| „All of men’s goals aim for greater freedom.“ |
| „The truth you cannot live is not truth.“ |
| „Not hierarchy, but ethics determine success.“ |
| „You are the wellspring of ethical action that replenish the dying world.“ |
| „What’s the meaning of life with all that misery, suffering and meaninglessness? It’s putting yourself against that – how far can you push back? |
| „Time is either invested, or spent – difference is what compounds.“ |
| „Maybe you’re a frequency holder who’s not interested in creating, building, or having big impact on the world. You can just be – aligned with the source, engrossed in anything you do. These people are important.“ |
| „All complaints, including negative talk about others or yourself, are just frustrated wishes. And there are two types of wishes: ones that can you can make come true and ones that you have no control over.“ |
| „Over a long enough timeline, bad people eventually destroy themselves. They ignore relevant data because it doesn’t agree with them, they take unwarranted risks, they end up alone, without any friends. They might achieve external success, but they lack inner calmness and clarity.“ |
| „Depression is being a human with unmet needs.“ |
| „Life will break your heart, and take everything you have, and everything you hoped for, but in the darkness, there will be beauty and love.“ |
| „When you are engaging life fully, you often don’t see you are there.“ |
| „The purpose of life is to find a mode of being that’s so meaningful that the fact that life is suffering is no longer relevant.“ |
| „You want a goal you can never attain, you know? We derive our value from pushing uphill, and when we climb one summit, we can appreciate the view, but we need to find bigger and higher hill to remain happy. Climb the biggest hill you can envision. That’s better than happiness.“ |
| „Do I think more like a soldier or like a scout? Soldier defends, scout explores.“ |
| „We were meant to be physically experiencing life, not just mentally.“ |
| „If you are at top of the food chain, you have no reason to be intimidated or influenced by others. You do what you want.“ |
| „Without courage, there is no growth or change. Without courage, you’re simply living a life crowdsourced for you by the expectations of others. Find courage.“ |
| „You want your professional life to have a story, not just be a list.“ |
| „The key to a happy life is to find amusement in the stupidity of people instead being triggered by it.“ |
| „The West has produced too many unhappy playboys, and the East too many genuinely peaceful sages.“ |
| „When fear approaches us in its fullest form, it has this tendency to make us double down on what we think we know about ourselves and this world.“ |
| „If it can shine in the darkest places, then you know it’s a real light.“ |
| „Once reproduction became a biological choice for a mother, then fatherhood became social choice for a man for that matter.“ |
Writing
| „It’s not a plot hole. It’s a hiding place for massive plot twist. They are easy to mix up at first.“ |
| „First words punch. Last words linger.“ |
| „Blog about what you believe and what you don’t.“ |
| „No one who blogs regularly ever regrets doing so.“ |
| „Your blog is a collection of answers to questions people (including you) will ask you in the future.“ |
| „He’s not writing! He’s just having ideas and then editing!“ |
| „The power of writing is not about the praise you receive from others. It’s about the realization that a kinder and wiser version of yourself is accessible whenever you need that person the most.“ |
| „Having good ideas is most of writing well. If you know what you’re talking about, you can say it in the plainest words and you’ll be perceived as having a good style.“ |
| „The test of utility I propose is whether we cause people who read what we’ve written to do anything differently afterward.“ |
| „If word sequence sounds wrong, it is probably wrong.“ |
| „What value you can give to other people?“ |
| „Go to war with words.“ |
| „When you write, you make a case for something. If you make the best case, you win. And then you get what you were aiming at.“ |
| „Your capacity to articulate only comes with distance.“ |
| „To tell a good story, you must reveal a surprise; otherwise it is just a report.“ |
| „Most writing is just people yelling over each other.“ |
| „Trying to make writing sound good makes you fix mistakes unconsciously, and also helps you fix them consciously; it shakes the bin of ideas, and also makes mistakes easier to see.“ |
| „An essay is a cleaned up train of thought, in the same way dialogue is cleaned up conversation.“ |
| „Text is most legible with no more than 70 characters per line.“ |
| „With every piece of content you put out there (especially on a platform with longevity, like YouTube or a blog), you’re leaving a breadcrumb trail that will lead interesting people to you in the future.“ |
| „Stop lying about who you are, and write the things that are actually inside you.“ |
| „Great art is modified perfectionism – someone said repeatedly: „It’s STILL not good enough.“ |
| „Are there better ways to formulate this thought?“ |
| „Our thoughts are in constant battle with each other. Until we actively share them out, they are never refined, and they will remain in conflict.“ |