—Derren Brown
Tag: Caring Too Much About What Others Think
The cost of being who you are is conflict with those who want you to be someone else. The cost of being what others want you to be is conflict with yourself.
— Farnam Street
We should not, like sheep, follow the herd of creatures in front of us, making our way where others go, not where we ought to go
—Seneca
It’s rather difficult to know where this point is, as the boundary between ambition and greed can be blurry…
— https://moretothat.com/the-many-worlds-of-enough/ “… But for the most part, you’ve entered the domain of greed when you no longer pursue an endeavor because you’re curious about it. It’s when the coldness of utility replaces the warmth of curiosity. Ambition morphs into greed when you stop listening to your inner compass, and start paying attention to what
The thing that’s very clear is that when people hear information that comports with whatever their tribe believes, or whatever their tribe supports, they’re willing to accept it without doing a lot of digging into the quality of the source, the quality of the information, the implications of the rest of the information that goes with it. Anything that challenges what their tribe believes they are going to be more dismissive of whether or not it comes from a quality source
— Todd Simkin
You pay a high price for a cheery consensus
— Warren Buffett