These posts cover how we make ourselves happy, and how to combat unhappiness.
Moral Letters
How do we find meaning? By learning to identify all those things that are meaningless, and serve only to weigh us down: public opinion and trends; fashion, fame, and fortune; anger, envy, and longing.
Moral Letters
For us to know the true worth of something, we must look beyond the packaging. And this takes time.
Newsletters
You will always outcompete someone who is not willing to put in the same time as you. I refer not just to hours spent working, but in learning how not to waste time, and how productively to use the time you have focused on the right priorities.
Moral Letters
Think of a summary as but a sip, nourishing if it comes after a full meal, but leaving you empty if you have consumed nothing before it.
Moral Letters
It should give you pause to consider that the great many who think themselves in possession of their faculties are in fact being mindlessly swept along.
Moral Letters
To follow your own mind, especially when it directs a course that goes against all others, is the greatest achievement.
Newsletters
If you would not be judged by your worst moment, do not be quick to judge others for theirs.
Moral Letters
If the sincere student is not ready, the teacher is not done.
Moral Letters
The true value of work is when it brings you not possessions, but self-possession, and knowledge of what is worth pursuing and what can be safely cast aside.
Newsletters
We are not entitled to unlimited freedom at the expense of our fellow citizens.
Newsletters
You could get no clearer picture of what lies in your personal future than to study your parents' generation. But this is a lesson we take up unwillingly.
Moral Letters
If we want a true test of our training, we must check our thoughts against the one fate we can be sure is destined to come our way.