Live a life of standards, not descriptors. Wake up each morning and live like a boss.

Don’t fake it until you make it. Shut up until you make it. And then when you make it, you’ll be so used to being that way that you still won’t feel all that inclined to talk about it.

the description of the temperate man reminds me of bill cunningham

has "follow your passion" type advice, but otherwise good

i love ryan holiday:

ryan nails it again

thinker and a do-er

need to know the strategy before worrying about tactics, otherwise: "tactical hell"

plutarch's consolation to his mother

Reason is necessary for happiness because it is what enables us to live a life of virtue. However, happiness is not merely virtue, rather happiness consists in doing virtuous activity. In order to experience the highest good, one must be actually becoming good themselves.

SOME THOUGHTS
by Paul Smith
Start something new
Take pleasure seriously
Life/work is not about shorter hours or longer hours, it's about every hour
Look at the world through the eyes of someone you respect, admire and love
You can't do it without doing it
Make room to BREAK THE RULES
Stop making sense...logic is predictable...think differently

On any plausible view of what is truly wonderful in almost any human life, impact hardly comes into the story at all... We can think of living well as giving meaning—ethical meaning, if we want a name—to a life.

Advice: be the quiet one in the corner, working away. Avoid information you’re unlikely to actually make use of, and avoid extrapolations as much as you can—because “this means that which means this which could become” is just a chain of illusions based on something you’ll probably never have to deal with. Don’t tell people what you do, if you can get away with it. Just lie, or downplay it. Plan as little as possible, set your life up so there’s less you need to plan about anyway (rent, have less stuff, keep commitments loose). Refuse to accept conflation—this is not the same as that, no matter how similar they might seem. Insist on critical evaluations, even negative ones. Finally, accept that you have this impulse to reify. It is natural to feel drawn towards making the abstract into the concrete (we’re not good with things that turn out to be for naught). Just recognize when you’re doing it. The point is that it’s better to know when you’ve submitted to something rather than be blindly enslaved to it.

books are not trophies -- let them motivate you to action. go!

online sales of audio courses covering a whole range of topics

how power is inextricably linked with its inverse. Become empowered and simultaneously disempowered.

good warning to not take metaphors too far. focus on the big things

what are you working towards?

BRILLIANT essay on leadership, concentration and solitude. must re-read from time to time

some people never get past the imaginary audience, don't be a slave to it.

the most important thing a company looks for when they hire a young person is not his skill but his ability to maintain and utilize those skills within the existing order.

Let's think of the positives as personal, general, and permanent. Let's think of the negatives as impersonal, specific, and temporary.

interesting quotes on present/future orientation