Focus on where you are: Make one good decision, then another one, then another one.
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Writer and programmer Simon Sarris on the value of effort:
"If you make lists of lofty goals, it can be easy to leave them to accumulate, as happens sometimes, into a mountain of to-do's and notes and half-forgotten plans. Dreaming alone is seductive, even a little sweet, since it lacks the pain of trying. So it feels proper to prize attempts more than dreams. You should have ideals, but you cannot only love an idealized future, you must cultivate a love of effort, too. If you really want something, then the soul must make demands of the body."
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"If you make lists of lofty goals, it can be easy to leave them to accumulate, as happens sometimes, into a mountain of to-do's and notes and half-forgotten plans. Dreaming alone is seductive, even a little sweet, since it lacks the pain of trying. So it feels proper to prize attempts more than dreams. You should have ideals, but you cannot only love an idealized future, you must cultivate a love of effort, too. If you really want something, then the soul must make demands of the body."
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The purpose of negative emotions is not to cause misery. It’s to prevent mistakes.
Outrage is a signal to speak up. Anxiety is a prompt to prepare. Guilt is a reminder to repair. Disappointment is a cue to persist.
Pain reveals principles. Where we hurt is a clue to what we value.
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Outrage is a signal to speak up. Anxiety is a prompt to prepare. Guilt is a reminder to repair. Disappointment is a cue to persist.
Pain reveals principles. Where we hurt is a clue to what we value.
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Life is hard for all of us.
You are not special.
No one is coming to save you.
Stop being a snowflake
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You are not special.
No one is coming to save you.
Stop being a snowflake
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Psychiatrist Thomas Szasz on what is required to learn:
"Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily; and why older persons, especially if vain or important, cannot learn at all."
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"Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily; and why older persons, especially if vain or important, cannot learn at all."
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"As long as we continue to think we will be happy in the future, we will never be happy in the moment, and that is the same as saying that we will never be happy. If we think that our lives will be better when we get that better job or retire, stay or go, gain or lose weight, or when our children grow and leave or come back, we are putting off the happiness that there is in today."
— Aminu Kano
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— Aminu Kano
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Competence: The desire to learn and improve is natural. Create evidence of improvement and expanding competence.
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The more my heart yearns to accept, the more my fractures cease
Because life will never apologize to you; learn to let go.
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Because life will never apologize to you; learn to let go.
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"The victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won." - Sun Tzu
Most battles are won long before they begin.
Preparation in the dark creates victory in the light.
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Most battles are won long before they begin.
Preparation in the dark creates victory in the light.
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"A day well spent brings a pleasant sleep.
A life well lived brings a pleasant death."
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A life well lived brings a pleasant death."
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"Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances."
— Orison Swett Marden
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— Orison Swett Marden
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