"The magic that you are looking for is in the work you are avoiding."

“Think of yourself as dead, you have lived your life. Now take what’s left and live it properly.” — Marcus Aurelius

They can copy your steps. They can't copy your effortless discipline.

“Envy knows many disguises.”

The first casualty of war is the truth.

“The main thing preventing you from seeing clearly is your belief that you already do.”

I cannot escape death, but at least I can escape the fear of it.” — Epictetus

The wise are more interested in their own flaws than in those of others.

1. What is enough?

2. Will anger make this better or worse?

3. Are you a friend to yourself?

4. Did you do something to make you better?

5. Where are you wasting time

6. Do the hard thing first

7. Be ruthless to things that don’t matter

8. Attack the dawn

9. Strict with yourself, tolerant with others

10. Always do the right thing

11. Practice, practice, practice

“Science is magic that works.”

– Kurt Vonnegut

If people find you are easily offended, they'll typically conceal their true, potentially offensive sentiments, and present you with an anodyne forgery of themselves. Taking offense is therefore a request to be deceived.

Refusing to trade accuracy for speed is a sign of intellect.

everything has a cause

Intellectual dishonesty is advocacy of a position using arguments or data known to be fallacious (e.g. using straw man arguments, circular logic, guilt by association, appealing to fear, ridicule, or emotion instead of reason, etc.).

Be strict with yourself and tolerant of others. Your standards are for you.

“an appeal to ‘systems,’ ‘structures’ and ‘institutions’ can serve as a means to mystify, rather than illuminate…These frameworks are regularly deployed by elites to absolve themselves of responsibility for social problems and to justify inaction”

For the most part, people often don’t think, they judge.

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