—Andy Bernard
Category: Psychology
Whenever you think that some situation or some person is ruining your life, it’s actually you who are ruining your life. It’s such a simple idea. Feeling like a victim is a perfectly disastrous way to go through life. If you just take the attitude that however bad it is in anyway, it’s always your fault and you just fix it as best you can – the so-called ‘iron prescription’ – I think that really works
— Charlie Munger
Don’t waste your time arguing with anyone whose opinion you don’t respect…
— Alex Green “… This is doubly true when the person you’re dealing with is a zealot. (I define a zealot as someone who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.) You probably have better things to do than bang your head against the wall. Ideally, you want to converse with someone who
Marshall Goldsmith on self-limiting beliefs:
“I think we have a lot of self-limiting beliefs. And the self-limiting beliefs, a lot of these come from inside us. Basically, I can’t do this. I can’t do that. This is just the way I am. One of the most common problems is, this is just the way I am as if we have
One of the novel’s protagonists — a young black woman in 1930s Philadelphia — becomes an emissary of the power of music as an instrument of self-discovery and self-possession, a living testament to song as the pulse-beat of the soul
— Maria Popova Self-possession: “the state or feeling of being calm, confident, and in control of one’s feelings; composure.” — Dictionary “What is self-possession in philosophy? Self-possession is just that: not being possessed by someone else. It is achieved not through controlling ourselves, but through recognising how we unwittingly cede power to others, and then ceasing
It’s staggering how expectations can alter how you interpret current circumstances …
— Morgan Housel (https://www.collaborativefund.com/blog/goalpost/) ”… In 2004 the New York Times interviewed Stephen Hawking, the late scientist whose motor-neuron disease left him paralyzed and unable to talk since age 21. “Are you always this cheerful?” the Times asked. “My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21,” Hawking said. “Everything since then has been a bonus,” he replied.