If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable - Seneca

What labels me, negates me. - Søren Kierkegaard

A practical definition of opportunity cost: If you spend too much time working on good things, then you don’t have much time left to work on great things. Understanding opportunity cost means eliminating good uses of time. And that’s what makes it hard. - James Clear

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do. - James Harvey Robinson

Scoop a jar of water out of the ocean + put a lid on it. Study its segregated state. Where is the ocean in that jar? Where are the tides + the currents? Pour it back into the ocean + it returns to its integrated state. The temporary entity no longer exists. - Jed McKenna

Forever is composed of nows. - Emily Dickinson

Rules are created as a codification of cultural norms. Rules beget more rules, and over time the culture is forgotten and all that’s left is an industry obsessed with rules. - [email protected] 🐤🇮🇨

Accountability is done to you. It’s done by the industrial system, by those that want to create blame. Responsibility is done by you. It’s voluntary. You can take as much of it as you want. - Seth Godin

When one speaks of awakening, it means de-hypnotization; coming to your senses. But of course to do that, you have to go out of your mind. - Alan Watts

The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily. - Charlie Munger

Sometimes a lot of data can be meaningless; at other times one single piece of information can be very meaningful. It is true that a thousand days cannot prove you right, but one day can prove you to be wrong. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I think the biggest career mistake young people make is they’re afraid to look dumb, so they follow safe paths that cap their downside, not realizing that they also cap their upside. - Erik Torenberg

The older I get the more I realize how many kinds of smart there are. There are a lot of kinds of smart. There are a lot of kinds of stupid, too. - Jeff Bezos

Being busy isn't the same thing as adding value. - Shane Parrish

Whatever we are describing, the human mind cannot be parted from it. - Roger Jones

If you just did all the shit you already know you should be doing but aren’t, you’d be 10x further than you are right now. Sometimes we need to be reminded more than we need to be taught. Less information. More implementation. - Alex Hormozi

The depth of your focus will determine the level of your achievements. - Orange Book 🍊📖

We crave and fear becoming truly ourselves. - Abraham Maslow

Gaining or losing interest in particular problems or sub-problems is part of the creative process and itself constitutes problem-solving. - David Deutsch

It is often more productive to first look at the obstacles to a goal than to directly look for a path to that goal. For if you find the obstacles, you find the path. - Siddha Performance