Novelist Charles Kingsley on happiness: β€œWe act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.”
A lot of success in life is just putting yourself in a position for good things to happen to you. + Be reliable + Avoid drama + Help other people win + Take care of your body + Take care of your mind + Live below your means + Treat your job as if it matters + Take care of your relationships Simple, but not easy.
Author Nassim Taleb on why earned knowledge and being in the details is superior: β€œThe knowledge we get by tinkering, via trial and error, experience, and the workings of time, in other words, contact with the earth, is vastly superior to that obtained through reasoning, something self-serving institutions have been very busy hiding from us.”
It doesn’t matter what position you find yourself in right now. What matters is whether you improve your position today. Every ordinary moment is an opportunity to make the future easier or harder.
Be prepared, ask for help when you need it, and help others.
Work harder because people care and your work matters.
The purpose of life is not to be happy, it is to be useful