Transient Stoicism

Constant Improvement

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The Met

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expansive

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To explore the minds of Greatness - wash, rinse, repeat, Curiosity.

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Importance of Grit - doing well takes more than just pure brain horsepower

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Searching for the life

Wading in viscosity

Constant improvement

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Awesome

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Famous writers’ sleep habits vs. literary productivity, visualized – see the full graphic, a labor of love months in the making, here.

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Meditative Workouts

Be mindful of your posture during lifts - it makes your workouts more effective and safer. Paying attention to how your body feels signals your muscles to work harder, opens your mind to really listen to the tensions developing throughout the lift, and make adjustments to your posture before it causes an injury.

Keep in mind the correct shoulder position, your shoulder discomfort is probably the result of incorrect posture or overexertion. Keep them tight throughout the whole lift, and pull them back and down (bench press, pull down, shoulder press, dead lift).

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"You can do anything, but not everything."

—David Allen, a productivity consultant who is best known as the creator of the time management method known as “Getting Things Done”.

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How to read a book

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What Will We Miss?, Vsauce

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The tears began to flow and sobs shook him. He gave himself up to them now for the first time on the island; great, shuddering spasms of grief that seemed to wrench his whole body. His voice rose under the black smoke before the burning wreckage of the island; and infected by that emotion, the other little boys began to shake and sob too. And in the middle of them, with filthy body, matted hair, and unwiped nose, Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man’s heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy.

William Golding, Lord of the Flies

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Remember: it’s not owning property that gives you security; it just fives your creditors security. Real security comes from having a steady income, as the Duke of Buckingham found out in the 1840s, and as Detroit homeowners are finding out today. For that reason, it may not be necessary for every entrepreneur in the developing world to raise money by mortgaging his house. Or her house. In fact, home ownership may not be the key to wealth generation at all.

Niall Ferguson, The Ascent of Money

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Inflation is a monetary phenomenon, as Milton Friedman said. But hyper inflation is always and everywhere a political phenomenon, in the sense that it cannot occur without a fundamental malfunction of a country’s political economy.

Niall Ferguson, The Ascent of Money

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Remember our rule of thumb: The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it. Resistance is experienced as fear; the degree of fear equates the strength of Resistance. Therefore, the more fear we feel about a specific enterprise, the more certain we can be that that enterprise is important to us and to the growth of our soul.

Steven Pressfield, The War of Art