You don’t do well by trying to be right; it is impossible for humans. You do well by figuring out when you’re wrong faster than others do.

A changing thing must give up some property and acquire the opposite property—What struggles with itself becomes committed to itself

Remember how long you've been putting this off, how many extensions the gods gave you, and you didn't use them. At some point you have to recognize what world it is that you belong to; What power rules it and from what source you spring; that there is a limit to the time assigned you, and if you don't use it to free yourself it will be gone and will never return.

Ten times a day must thou overcome thyself: that causeth wholesome weariness, and is poppy to the soul. Ten times must thou reconcile again with thyself; for overcoming is bitterness, and badly sleep the unreconciled. Ten truths must thou find during the day; otherwise thou wilt seek truth during the night, and thy soul will have been hungry. Ten times must thou laugh during the day, and be cheerful; otherwise, thy stomach, the father of affliction, will disturb thee in the night.

Nature gave us pain as a messaging device to tell us that we are approaching or, that we have exceeded our limits in some way.

The secret is to show up, do the work, and go home. A blue collar work ethic married to indomitable will. It is literally that simple. Nothing interferes. Nothing can sway you from your purpose. Once the decision is made, simply refuse to budge. If the commitment is to a long-term goal and not to a series of smaller intermediate goals, then only one decision needs to be made and adhered to. Clear, simple, straightforward. Much easier to maintain than having to make small decision after small decision to stay the course when dealing with each step along the way. This provides far too many opportunities to inadvertently drift from your chosen goal. The single decision is one of the most powerful tools in the toolbox.

You must set your hands to tasks which you can finish or at least hope to finish, and avoid those which get bigger as you proceed and do not cease where you had intended.

Some problems are difficult because the elements that are essential to the solution are relatively inaccessible to retrieval from memory. Other problems are difficult because they impose severe time-pressure. The indications are that effort is less closely related to the dimension of accessibility than to the dimension of time-pressure.

When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves

There is too much bad news to justify complacency. There is too much good news to justify despair.

The ethical is always more robust than the legal. Over time, it is the legal that should converge to the ethical, never the reverse.

The characteristic feature of the loser is to bemoan, in general terms, mankind's flaws, biases, contradictions, and irrationality without exploiting them for fun and profit.

It is perplexing but amusing to observe people get excited about things you don't care about; It is sinister to watch them ignore things you believe are fundamental.

The macroscopic world as experienced by humans is, in short, an intimate mixture ranging from the most predictable events all the way to wildly unpredictable ones. Our first few years of life familiarize us with this spectrum, and the degree of predictability of most types of actions that we undertake becomes second nature to us. By the time we emerge from childhood, we have acquired a reflex-level intuition for where most of our everyday world's *loci* of unpredictability lie, and the more unpredictable end of this spectrum simultaneously beckons to us and frightens us. We're pulled by but fearful of risk-taking. That is the nature of life.