Where are you getting educated? Who are you reading? Who are you listening to? Ten years ago you had to actively seek out what to read, listen to, or attend. You probably did this based on having a question you wanted to answer, or a gap in your knowledge or skill that you wanted to fill.
Now most people read whatever’s in their social media feed.
That’s high risk. Filling your brain with other people’s interests, people who may or may not be experts. Allowing Facebook’s algorithm to set the direction of your learning.
Is it time for you to take back control of what you fill up your mind with?
In arguments, we often want to be right. But being right is not the same as being wise.
One of the greatest lies we tell ourselves is that we’re falling behind. That someone else is ahead.
As a young man I associated strength with force; louder voices, sharper opinions, firm lines in the sand.
There’s a strange kind of pride we’ve developed in being exhausted. But even lions, the king of the jungle, rest.
I can't remember a time in my life when I didn't have ambition.
We sometimes believe strength means self-sufficiency — that being independent means being isolated.
We often try to outrun the storm, emotionally, physically, spiritually.
We’re entering an age where machines do our thinking before we’ve even had a chance to try.