Never be distracted by people’s glamorous portraits of themselves and their lives; search and dig for what really imprisons them.

The secret to success in the 21st century. This clip is from my conversation with Naoufal Fillali

The three things you should not do if you want power: 1. Don't be in a hurry to get power. 2. Don't take people at face value. 3. Don't try to be like other people. youtu.be/jnaBgr91ETk?si…

The conventional mind is passive - it consumes information and regurgitates it in familiar forms. The dimensional mind is active, transforming everything it digests into something new and original, creating instead of consuming.

Most people are perpetually locked in the present. Their decisions are overly influenced by the most immediate event; they easily become emotional and ascribe greater significance to a problem than it should have in reality.

The problem is that we humans are deep conformists.

This is the sublime.

In the face of the Sublime, we feel a shiver, a foretaste of death itself, something too large for our minds to encompass. And for a moment it shakes us out of our smugness and releases us from the deathlike grip of habit and banality.

Learn to imagine more possibilities than you generally consider. Avoid fixating only on what is present. Ponder what is absent.

The legacy I wish to have.

Try the thing you don’t think you’re quite ready for.

In dealing with any problem, you must train yourself to look at how it inevitably connects to a larger picture.

Knowledge is always progressing. Don’t let your ego fool you. You are always knowledge’s inferior.

Do not waste time on things you cannot change or influence.