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While They’re Sleeping podcast on repeat…Walk Good. 28all. Eya. *NP, AP, JG* The Warm-Up: “If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.” ~Joseph Campbell The Core: “The most important question to ask about a cyclical is whether the company’s balance sheet is strong enough to survive the next downturn.” ~Peter Lynch “You know you’re healing when you stop chasing and start manifesting. What’s for you will align with you. Let everything and everyone else go.” ~Dr. Thema Bryant “You have to trust in something—your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.” ~Steve Jobs “Anybody can rise to a crisis and face a crushing tragedy with courage, but to meet the petty hazards of the day with a laugh—I really think that requires spirit.” ~Jean Webster “Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve.” ~Karl Popper “The older you get, the more you keep your personal life private and not tell everyone your side of the story even when you’re being portrayed as the villain in someone else’s story.” ~@MindTendencies2 “Read books when you don’t need knowledge. Learn to invest when you don’t need money. Take care of your health when you don’t feel sick. Cultivate friendships when you don’t feel lonely. Get married when you are already happy alone.” ~Orange Book “Everyone can feel it when you are tormented within. You are out there, making up fake scenarios, worrying about people judging you, when absolutely no one cares. You try to conceal these negative vibes, but it’s obvious you aren’t attracting the ‘good luck’ others seem to get.” ~Orange Book “Always follow the rule that gives you the most mental room to run…If that’s paying off your student loans and taking that money off your back – then do it. Not all smart financial decisions look the same. The risks you’ll take with mental freedom, might mean 10x more money.” ~Dr. Julie Gurner “The Noise Bottleneck: We think the more information we consume the more signal we’ll consume. Only the mind doesn’t work like that. When the volume of information increases, our ability to comprehend the relevant from the irrelevant becomes compromised. We place too much emphasis on irrelevant data and lose sight of what’s really important.” ~Nassim Taleb, Antifragile “Of all people only those who are at leisure and make time for philosophy, only they truly live. Not satisfied to merely keep good watch over their own days, they annex every age to their own. All the harvest of the past is added to their store. Only an ingrate would fail to see that these great architects of venerable thoughts were born for us and have designed a way of life for us.” ~Seneca “There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by. A life of good days lived in the senses is not enough. The life of sensation is the life of greed; it requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and less; time is ample and its passage sweet. Who would call a day spent reading a good day? But a life spent reading -- that is a good life.” ~Annie Dillard, The Writing Life [saw in Brain Food, FS No. 528 — June 11th, 2023] “Crush Your Enemy Totally: Your enemies wish you ill. There is nothing they want more than to eliminate you. If you stop halfway, out of mercy or hope of reconciliation, you only make them more determined, more embittered, and they will someday take revenge. The solution: Have no mercy. Crush your enemies as totally as they would crush you. Ultimately the only peace and security you can hope for from your enemies is their disappearance.” ~Robert Greene, 48 Laws of Power Last Set: “Get rid of your pride. Often in life, in order to get what you want, you need to do what you don’t want, for many years. Life isn’t a fairy tale. Learn to be smart and practical. It’s common to waste decades because you were too idealistic, and not ready for any compromise.” ~Orange Book Food For Thought: “Be excited for people when they succeed. When a friend or family member reaches an important milestone like getting a promotion or making their first sale or scoring acceptance into their desired program, celebrate it. Buy them a drink. Send them a card. Tell them you’re proud to know them. Being thrilled on someone’s behalf is a lovely way to be. Winning is better when shared.” ~James Clear Food For Thought II: “The world is constantly testing us. We set out to do something and it’s more trying than we expect. We face resistance. We get criticized. We run out of options. We experience technical difficulties. What will we do?” ~Ryan Holiday, The Obstacle is the Way | Daily Stoic, Jun 7th, 2023
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