The aim of journalism is for it to be read. The aim of literature is for it to be re-read.
Keystone Habits are habits that you use to make it easier to do other habits because you perform them regularly already and all you have to do is chain a new habit on at the end.
His judgements, like the decrees of a monarch, spring from his own sovereign power and proceed directly from himself. The characteristic sign of a mind of the highest standard is the directness of its judgment.
Schopenhauer
people stay silent in front of big insults, and vocal in front of small ones;
masks: people want to be free in the small things, and are willing to be slaves in the things that matter
They speed everything up
Thinking is like dancing. You must learn the moves, but once you’ve learned them you dance from your heart not your mind.
That’s all the productivity advice you need.
Work is hard.
As the living standards in a society rise, the people’s expectations of the society rise with it. The rise in expectations eventually surpasses the rise in living standards, inevitably resulting in disaffection (and sometimes populist uprisings).
Life is easier when you know who you are, simplest when you know what game you’re playing, and best when you play only your game.
It is, indeed, perhaps the greatest prospect of humanistic studies to contribute through an increasing knowledge of the history of cultural development to that gradual removal of prejudices which is the common aim of all science.
Niehls Bohr, Atomic Physics and Human Knowledge (1958)
Keep yourself at risk intellectually all the time:
https://www.blackstone.com/press-releases/article/blackstones-byron-wien-discusses-lessons-learned-in-his-first-80-years/
Everything else is a second-order or higher derivatives of time.