In his Man in the Arena speech, Theodore Roosevelt emphasized the importance of having skin in the game: It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is … Read more
Instant gratification takes too long. Carrie Fisher Nobody likes to wait In Melanie Watt’s children’s book, You’re Finally Here, the bunny uses some choice adjectives to describe waiting: unfair “as having to eat a Brussels sprout”, annoying “as having a song stuck in my head,” and rude, “as running on carpet with muddy feet.” Most … Read more
I read a bunch of productivity tips once—and then spent the rest of the day feeling accomplished for reading them. It’s not rare to see celebrities adopt a multi-hyphen tagline (Actor-Writer-Comic-TikTok star) to describe themselves as a means of self-promotion. But believe it or not, we are all multi-hyphenates in some shape or form. We … Read more
He who is unaffected by praise or blame, and neither laments nor desires, has equanimity and is fit for immortality. Buddha This, too, shall pass According to legend, King Solomon struggled with a problem that is all too familiar to most of us. He sought a way to control his emotions instead of having them … Read more