—Seneca
Tag: Caring Too Much About What Others Think
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
I can’t give you a surefire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time
— Herbert Bayard Swope
Your time is limited. Don’t waste it living someone else’s life.
— Steve Jobs For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself, ‘If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?’ And whenever the answer has been no for too many days in a row, I