“Sure,” Lucy has been taught, “everyone will go and get themselves some fulfilling career, but I am unusually wonderful and as such, my career and… Read More »The Unicorn of Despair: Tim Urban on intergenerational differences in defining success
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And so it is both strange and remarkable to me that — among some dozens of books I have authored — precisely this one, which… Read More »Viktor Frankl on success and working for something bigger than yourself
On pushing out the boat [Start here] This is quite dense, but interesting. After summarising his argument so far, Aristotle suggests that the best way… Read More »Aristotle on virtue as a mean (4) – leaning out (or “Whose fool are you?”)
Many ways to fail [Start here] … Again, it is possible to fail in many ways (for evil belongs to the class of the unlimited,… Read More »Aristotle on virtue as a mean (3) – the hard part
[Start here] … But not every action nor every passion admits of a mean; for some have names that already imply badness, e.g. spite, shamelessness,… Read More »Aristotle on virtue as a mean (2) – notable exceptions
Success represents the 1% of your work which results from the 99% that is called failure. Instead of being afraid of the challenge and failure,… Read More »Soichiro Honda on success and failure
This is from a blog post called “How to Be Successful“, which begins with the observation that (in the startup world) most people start off… Read More »Sam Altman on “compounding yourself”
John Greenall wrote this about our lack of a sense of urgency about the most important things in life: I wonder if it comes back… Read More »A sense of urgency (2): Clayton Christensen on measuring your life
Noun 2 A person who vigorously supports or defends a person or cause.‘he became the determined champion of a free press’2.1 historical A knight who fought… Read More »Champion (2)