Life-changing ideas and insights from some of the world's greatest thinkers.
If you make it your mindset, your vision of who you are, that you’re going to make it a habit to give 100 percent, 100 percent of the time, in everything you do—if you make that your norm, your base level, your default mode—then on your absolutely worst day, even when you slip, you’re still going to be better than the average person on their BEST day.
Sleep is the single most effective thing we can do to reset our brain and body health each day.
The truth: we should consider listening to the medical system if we have an acute issue like a life-threatening infection or a broken bone. But when it comes to the chronic conditions that plague our lives, we should question almost every institution regarding nutrition or chronic disease advice.
There is an important idea in Nietzsche, of Amor fati, the 'love of your fate,' which is in fact your life. As he says, if you say no to a single factor in your life, you have unraveled the whole thing. Furthermore, the more challenging or threatening the situation or context to be assimilated and affirmed, the greater the stature of the person who can achieve it. The demon that you can swallow gives you its power, and the greater life's pain, the greater life's reply.
When a man has fulfilled all four of these requisites—to be wide awake, to have fear, respect, and absolute assurance—there are no mistakes for which he will have to account; under such conditions his actions lose the blundering quality of the acts of a fool. If such a man fails, or suffers a defeat, he will have lost only a battle, and there will be no pitiful regrets over that.
Here’s the simple truth. Plans based on moderation DO NOT work for people who are high on the Susceptibility Scale.
Recently we crossed a tipping point where, for the first time in recorded history, the youngest generation of children are now expected to live shorter lives than their parents, even though medical technology continues to advance and we know far more about the impact of poor diet and inactivity than ever before.
Reality doesn’t ever wait for our agreement or approval. It is what it is. You can count on that.
It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.
We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them.