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Sometimes ego is suppressed on the ascent. Sometimes an idea is so powerful or timing is so perfect (or one is born into wealth or power) that it can temporarily support or even compensate for a massive ego. As success arrives, like it does for a team that has just won a championship, ego begins to toy with our minds and weaken the will that made us win in the first place. We know that empires always fall, so we must think about why--and wh..
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Opportunities are not usually deep, virgin pools that require courage and boldness to dive into, but instead are obscured, dusted over, blocked by various forms of resistance. What is really called for in these circumstances is clarity, deliberateness, and methodological determination.
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It comes in many forms. Idly dreaming about the future. Plotting our revenge. Finding refuge in distraction. Refusing to consider that our choices are a reflection of our character. We'd rather do basically anything else.
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But too often, we proceed like this . . . A flash of inspiration: I want to do the best and biggest ______ ever. Be the youngest ______. The only one to ______. The "firstest with the mostest." The advice: Okay, well, here's what you'll need to do step-by-step to accomplish it. The reality: We hear what we want to hear. We do what we feel like doing, and despite being incredibly busy and working very hard, we accomplish very little. Or wors..
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What matters is that you learn how to manage yourself and others, before your industry eats you alive. Micromanagers are egotists who can't manage others and they quickly get overloaded.
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that it seems wrong to take it slow. This is just our impatience. This is our inability to see that burning ourselves out or blowing ourselves up isn't going to hurry the journey along.
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Stoicism as the ideal "personal operating system"
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Every culture has its own way of teaching the same lesson: Memento mori, the Romans would remind themselves. Remember you are mortal. It
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Accept only what is true. 2. Work for the common good. 3. Match our needs and wants with what is in our control. 4. Embrace what nature has in store for us.
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Those obsessed with glory attach their well-being to the regard of others, those who love pleasure tie it to feelings, but the one with true understanding seeks it only in their own actions.... Think on the character of the people one wishes to please, the possessions one means to gain, and the tactics one employs to such ends. How quickly time erases such things, and how many will yet be wiped away." --MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 6:51, 5..
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The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing, because an artful life requires being prepared to meet and withstand sudden and unexpected attacks." --MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 7.61"
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It is sad to consider how much time many people spend in the course of a day doing things they "have" to do--not necessary obligations like work or family, but the obligations we needlessly accept out of vanity or ignorance. Consider the actions we take in order to impress other people or the lengths we'll go to fulfill urges or sate desires we don't even question."
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If your purpose is something larger than you--to accomplish something, to prove something to yourself--then suddenly everything becomes both easier and more difficult.
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Most of us would be seized with fear if our bodies went numb, and would do everything possible to avoid it, yet we take no interest at all in the numbing of our souls. --EPICTETUS
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As Plato said, every soul is deprived of truth against its will. The same holds true for justice, self-control, goodwill to others, and every similar virtue. It's essential to constantly keep this in your mind, for it will make you more gentle to all.
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Think of the life you have lived until now as over and, as a dead man, see what's left as a bonus and live it according to Nature. Love the hand that fate deals you and play it as your own, for what could be more fitting?" --MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 7.56-57"
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Stillness is what aims the archer's arrow. It inspires new ideas. It sharpens perspective and illuminates connections.
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As Goethe once observed, the great failing is "to see yourself as more than you are and to value yourself at less than your true worth."
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You must build up your life action by action, and be content if each one achieves its goal as far as possible--and no one can keep you from this. But there will be some external obstacle! Perhaps, but no obstacle to acting with justice, self-control, and wisdom. But what if some other area of my action is thwarted? Well, gladly accept the obstacle for what it is and shift your attention to what is given, and another action will immediately ..
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What happened yesterday--what happened five minutes ago--is the past. We can reignite and restart whenever we like. Why not do it right now?
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Have you taken the time to get clarity about who you are and what you stand for?
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A growth hacker is someone who has thrown out the playbook of traditional marketing and replaced it with only what is testable, trackable and scalable
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If you're like me, you've sat and stared in fascination at the pictures of the ruins of Detroit that get passed around the internet.
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Only in struggling with the impediments that made others quit can we find ourselves on untrodden territory--only by persisting and resisting can we learn what others were too impatient to be taught.
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But there is no reason to live and no limit to our miseries if we let our fears predominate." --SENECA, MORAL LETTERS, 13.12b"
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Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself--nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
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Hopelessness, despair--these drive us to do nothing. Pity, empathy--those drive us to do something, like get up from our computers to act. But anger, fear, excitement, laughter, and outrage--these drive us to spread.
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It is essential for you to remember that the attention you give to any action should be in due proportion to its worth, for then you won't tire and give up, if you aren't busying yourself with lesser things beyond what should be allowed." --MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 4.32b"
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The fundamental purpose of most people at Facebook working on data is to influence and alter people's moods and behaviour. They are doing it all the time to make you like stories more, to click on more ads, to spend more time on the site.
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No one is crushed by Fortune, unless they are first deceived by her ... those who aren't pompous in good times, don't have their bubbles burst with change. Against either circumstance, the stable person keeps their rational soul invincible, for it's precisely in the good times they prove their strength against adversity." --SENECA, ON CONSOLATION TO HELVIA, 5.4b, 5b-6"
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I judge you unfortunate because you have never lived through misfortune. You have passed through life without an opponent--no one can ever know what you are capable of, not even you." --SENECA, ON PROVIDENCE, 4.3"
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What does not kill me makes me stronger," Nietzsche said."
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Whatever your current state is, it can be better
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Growth HAcking is more of a mindset that a tool kit
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The focus needs to be in improving customer retention
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The more your users stick, the more it will spread
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This insight lives on today in Warren Buffet's famous adage to
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The line attributed to the management guru Peter Drucker is that culture eats strategy. It's a truism that applies as much to conspiracies as it does to businesses. It doesn't matter how great your plan is, it doesn't matter who your people are, if what binds them all together is weak or toxic, so, too, will be the outcome--if you even get that far. But if the ties that bind you together are strong, if you have a sense of purpose and missio..
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Vires acquirit eundo
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Just as the nature of rational things has given to each person their rational powers, so it also gives us this power--just as nature turns to its own purpose any obstacle or any opposition, sets its place in the destined order, and co-opts it, so every rational person can convert any obstacle into the raw material for their own purpose." --MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 8.35"
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The next step after we discard our expectations and accept what happens to us, after understanding that certain things--particularly bad things--are outside our control, is this: loving whatever happens to us and facing it with unfailing cheerfulness. It is the act of turning what we must do into what we get to do.
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The gating resource here was not capital," Thiel said. "The gating resource was the ideas and the people and executing it well. It's not like lawsuits haven't been brought in the past. It's something that's been done, so we were required to think very creatively about this space, what kind of lawsuit to bring." Most of the ideas do not stand up to scrutiny, or to Thiel's ambitions. A slap on the wrist from the FCC about affiliate commission..
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Indeed, how could exile be an obstacle to a person's own cultivation, or to attaining virtue when no one has ever been cut off from learning or practicing what is needed by exile?" --MUSONIUS RUFUS, LECTURES, 9.37.30-31, 9.39.1"
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The person who has practiced philosophy as a cure for the self becomes great of soul, filled with confidence, invincible--and greater as you draw near." SENECA, MORAL LETTERS, 111.2"
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