Stop researching every aspect of it and reading all about it and debating the pros and cons of it … Start doing it.
You can’t make people listen to you. You can’t make them execute. That might be a temporary solution for a simple task. But to implement real change, to drive people to accomplish something truly complex or difficult or dangerous—you can’t make people do those things. You have to lead them.
The test is not a complex one: when the alarm goes off, do you get up out of bed, or do you lie there in comfort and fall back to sleep? If you have the discipline to get out of bed, you win—you pass the test. If you are mentally weak for that moment and you let that weakness keep you in bed, you fail. Though it seems small, that weakness translates to more significant decisions. But if you exercise discipline, that too translates to more substantial elements of your life.
Leaders should never be satisfied. They must always strive to improve, and they must build that mind-set into the team. They must face the facts through a realistic, brutally honest assessment of themselves and their team’s performance. Identifying weaknesses, good leaders seek to strengthen them and come up with a plan to overcome challenges. The best teams anywhere, like the SEAL Teams, are constantly looking to improve, add capability, and push the standards higher. It starts with the individual and spreads to each of the team members until this becomes the culture, the new standard. The recognition that there are no bad teams, only bad leaders facilitates Extreme Ownership and enables leaders to build high-performance teams that dominate on any battlefield, literal or figurative.
Don’t let your mind control you. Control your mind.
One recurs to the analogy between the sway of the classical school of economic theory and that of certain religions. For it is a far greater exercise of the potency of an idea to exorcise the obvious than to introduce into men’s common notions the recondite and the remote.
Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.
The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.
When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill-done.
The trouble with most folks isn't their ignorance. It's knowin' so many things that ain't so.
The biggest issue that is not priced into the market right now is the sovereign risk of US credit.
Some threats are sudden and unexpected. Others are slow and smoldering. Both represent cognitive blind spots for which societies are unprepared. Whether pandemics or populism, new weapons or new technologies, global warming or gaping inequalities, how humans respond marks the difference between survival and extinction. And how we act depends on what we see.
(Framers)
Autumn leaves that fall in the mountains, with no one to see them, are like brocade in the dark of night.
“Watch your thoughts, they become your words;Watch your words, they become your actions;Watch your actions, they become your habits;Watch your habits, they become your character;Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.”“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength,While loving someone deeply gives you courage.”“Knowing others is intelligence;Knowing yourself is true wisdom.Mastering others is strength;Mastering yourself is true power.”“A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step”“Because one believes in oneself, one doesn't try to convince others.Because one is content with oneself, one doesn't need others' approval.Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.”“If you are depressed you are living in the past.If you are anxious you are living in the future.If you are at peace you are living in the present.”“New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings”“Be content with what you have;Rejoice in the way things are.When you realize there is nothing lacking,The whole world belongs to you. Kindness in words creates confidence.Kindness in thinking creates profoundness.Kindness in giving creates love”
Watch your thoughts, they become your words; watch your words, they become your actions; watch your actions, they become your habits; watch your habits, they become your character; watch your character, it becomes your destiny.
Senator boni viri, senatus autem bestia evil
Senators are good men, but the Senate is a bad beast
Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine;—they are the life, the soul of reading;—take them out of this book for instance,—you might as well take the book along with them; [...] restore them to the writer;—he steps forth like a bridegroom,—bids All hail; brings in variety, and forbids appetite to fail.
Results = f($)
Agenda = f ($$$$)
Corruptions were primed most privileged but they were permitted by the passivity of the privileged.
Producing the dumbest form of socialism...
Socialized Risk
Privatized Benefit
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
There are three classes of people: those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see.
Hope is like a path in the country side. At first there is no path, but if enough people walk in the same direction the path appears.
In a universe whose size is beyond human imagining, where our world floats like a dust mote in the void of night, humans have grown inconceivably lonely.
A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient; nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in a fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient; and looking upon them only as sick and extravagant.
