You will compare yourself How could you not? How else would you know how to solve your problems? You try to solve your problems — and not until you solved them — obviously you turn to those who did. You will compare yourself — like you’d compare two strategies, two solutions, two ideas. You will …
Tag: Success
As Hard As Possible And No Harder
There’s as hard as you go There’s as hard as you think you can go There’s as hard as you can go There’s as hard as you could go And there’s as hard as it’s possible to go To say “I can’t go any harder” is ignorant. Maybe you can To say “it’s impossible …
WHAT You Did, NOT How
There is no delusion more insidious than the delusion that HOW you did it is somehow more important then WHAT YOU DID, There is no delusion more insidious than the delusion that HOW you did it matters at all There’s only what you want to do — then DOING of it When you want …
If You Can’t Take Them With You — You Have To Abandon Them
Abandoning others is condemned Betraying others is condemned But what if it’s necessary? This has nothing to do with taking yourself up at the expense of others With the exception of you removing yourself from their lives, abandoning them Besides that — you’re not “using” them, you’re not getting one up on them You’re …
Anything Stagnates
I often write how man stagnates …but anything stagnates – any entity. If you stagnate – do something new. Do something different. Do things you do different. If an organization stagnates – make it different. Make it do things different. And if you won’t – the difference will come from the outside – …
doing the right thing feels god-like
doing the right thing feels god-like there is nothing better that one could ever do than THE RIGHT THING therefore doing the RIGHT thing is being the best, being the champion, the winner, it’s god-like the right-thing is not some nonsense you saw someone do or dreamed of the right-thing is by …
DEAL-BREAKERS
Deal-breakers are not irrelevant. Deal-breakers are deal-breakers If you ignore deal-breakers now — your deal will fail later — and with extra damage. Advantage and disadvantage don’t cancel each other out. Option with disadvantages obviously, invariably, inevitably, DOES HAVE disadvantages. Regardless of the advantages otherwise. Merit and fault don’t cancel each other …
The Thing And The Symbol
You can have the thing or you can have the symbol You can have the real thing or you can have it’s symbol Sometimes you prefer symbol over the thing Sometimes you’re confused about the thing — therefore you take the symbol Sometimes you’re confused about most things — and you only take symbols …
Neither Innovative Nor Traditional Can Be Appraised
You want to know what’s the next big thing going to be You want to know what’s the next big thing NOT going to be You want to know where to put your resources: your time, your energy, your capital, your attention You live in the world therefore you’re interested in the world therefore you’re …
“Poisoned Gifts”
Everything that happens to you can bring you closer to reality — or farther away from it You view the gifts of fate in regard to the short-term benefits they entail If you like something — you’re happy with such gift If you don’t like something — you curse such gift There’s a …