Life

Hard times become manageable if you do what you love

(Extracted from You Better Love This by Morgan Housel) If you view “do what you love” as a guide to a happier life, it sounds like empty fortune cookie advice. If you view it as the thing providing the endurance...

September 10, 2019| Life Read More

Mild success by hard work. Wild success by luck.

(Extracted from Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Taleb) Nero believes that risk-conscious hard work and discipline can lead someone to achieve a comfortable life with a very high probability. Beyond that, it is all...

September 8, 2019| Life, Randomness Read More

Be indifferent with your wins and losses

(Extracted from ThoughtCo.) Sāi Wēng lived on the border and he raised horses for a living. One day, he lost one of his prized horses. After hearing of the misfortune, his neighbor felt sorry for him and came to...

September 8, 2019| Investing, Life Read More

Life isn’t fair

(Extracted from The Lessons of History – Ariel Durant and Will Durant) only the man who is below the average in economic ability desires equality; those who are conscious of superior ability desire freedom; and...

September 8, 2019| Life Read More

Be loved and feared. Otherwise better feared than loved.

(Extracted from The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli) whether it be better to be loved than feared or feared than loved? It may be answered that one should wish to be both, but, because it is difficult to unite them...

September 8, 2019| Machiavellian Read More

Garbage Time, Not Quality Time

Jerry Seinfeld on Father’s Day: I don’t need any special days. I mean they’re all special. We spend a lot of time together and I enjoy every second of it. Again, I’m a believer in the ordinary and the mundane....

September 8, 2019| Life Read More

Letting Go

(Excerpt from KindSpring) A senior monk and a junior monk were traveling together. At one point, they came to a river with a strong current. As the monks were preparing to cross the river, they saw a very young and...

September 8, 2019| Life, Via Negativa Read More

Worrying for nothing, most of the time

(Extracted from The Art of the Good Life by Rolf Dobelli) That’s why we’re plagued by anxiety morning till night. This unease is a totally normal software component of our brains, biologically hardwired and...

September 8, 2019| Life Read More

Life is too short for bad books

(Extracted from The Art of the Good Life by Rolf Dobelli) A book earns ten minutes of my time, maximum, then I give my verdict—to read or not to read. Themulti-trip ticket metaphor helps me be more drastic. Is...

September 8, 2019| Life Read More

Start more books. Quit most of them. Read the great ones twice.

(Quotes taken from 7 Ways to Retain More of Every Book You Read by James Clear) Start more books. Quit most of them. Read the great ones twice. Beware the man of a single book. Thomas Aquinas Life is too short to...

September 8, 2019| Life Read More

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