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1/ Don't look for work-life balance. Look for a purpose that transcends circumstance, calendar, and location.
2/ The rise of AI has revealed the difference between intelligence and wisdom and is making the latter more valuable by the day.
3/ To summarize a serious problem today: there is an obsession with the means of life that far surpasses interest in the ends of life.
4/ If you were no longer trying to control the future, just imagine what you could apply that power to.
5/ There are greater and lesser purposes, drives, and desires. Question yours.
6/ Many of the most difficult management and personnel issues stem from personal problems, not so-called professional ones. Work is done by people and people have problems. Management which ignores this ignores reality.
7/ We are still obsessed with tactics that are a dime a dozen. Impact that lasts demands substance, character, perseverance.
8/ Impact and innovation require you lift your anxious eyes from the tyranny of small things like yesterday's email and today's bank balance. This is the critical, daily work.
9/ The hockey-stick rise in anxiety is likely because somehow we're all trying to live life in a way that must be counter to our genetic code.
10/ When you get the shiny thing you've been chasing, it's often disappointing and thin. It's not simply that the thing is not as great as you thought it would be, it's that you've lost yourself in your pursuit of it.
11/ If you want to be a closed system, not ultimately needing anything from outside of yourself, the law of entropy tells us you will certainly move toward decay. If this is true, self-sufficiency is suicide which is the opposite of what we're told.
12/ All business trends toward busyness. That kind of commerce wastes the one asset we can't get more of. Flee from it!
13/ To live with a conscious acceptance of one's days drawing down one by one is what makes one alive.
14/ If you don't live for or connect with anything that transcends your calendar, your to-do list, and yourself, you will wither away and lose your life.
15/ Our motivation reveals what controls us today - that which directs our steps. This tells us we are never free. And that tells us we should carefully consider that which motivates us, for we are, and will always be, its slave.
16/ The fastest way to be free and feel better is to surrender. Unfortunately, I'm not sure if there is another way.
17/ Life is not static. Everything is in constant motion and undergoing change. Therefore, it is untrue that what you are facing or experiencing will not change. It is incredibly likely to change. This is true. Live like it is.
18/ If you live like everything is incredibly likely to change, you'll experience more than most.
19/ In physics and in life, there are states and there are laws. Figure out what the laws are and you'll better understand the state of your life.
20/ Pursue X at all costs and you'll likely get (-)X. Pursue wealth at all costs and you'll likely lose what makes one rich. Pursue longevity at all costs and you'll likely lose what makes one alive. Sacrifice your life for others and you'll likely find what makes one whole.
21/ Question your intuition because your intuition is likely, at least in part, formed by the groupthink of our present cultural moment. Wisdom is often counter to that which is intuitive.
22/ If your day-to-day work does not transcend your ego, your boss, and your bank account, it will never be fulfilling.
23/ The thing that just feels like it's never enough is never. going. to. be. enough. Flee from it!
24/ You are swimming in an ocean made up of your limited personal experiences, observations, pains, and the cultural substance of our time. This does not mean that you should accept this. It means you have an opportunity to differentiate yourself and your life by becoming aware of it, questioning it, exploring outside of it.
25/ Businesses, organizations, governments, families, and individuals are built by the small decisions they take every day. They are also built by how those decisions are made every day.
26/ To change a culture, you usually have to set something on fire. I mean this figuratively :) Here the goal is to burn the thing down to something more pure.
27/ Our cultural evolution seems to be following the path of a human life. It looks as though we're in that stage where reality begins to hit, we realize the grownups were deeply and secretly flawed and didn't have the answers, and we're left making sense of it all and considering what's next.
28/ Everything important requires consistency. The most difficult things are the most difficult because they require more consistency.
29/ Just aim higher and think bigger, and by this you will solve a lot of problems.
30/ Strive to be honest, transparent, and seek the good in those around you. You'll feel so much better.
31/ One of the great gifts of life is to realize you are not alone.
32/ Expect much from others that they might expect more of themselves and in so doing seek out ways to change and grow.
33/ The separation of work from life must be one of the silliest ideas we've come up with. No wonder people often feel that work feels devoid of life.
34/ Worse still, the idea that you should pursue X (let's call it career) at the expense of everything else in life must be one of the silliest ideas we've come up with. No wonder life often feels devoid of life.
35/ The fear that contentment will dull our edge and cost us success may turn out to be one of the least intelligent beliefs we held. At a minimum, it will likely come out that we had a stunted view of success - a success that might turn out to be quite the opposite. Many folks at the end of their lives report this sort of thing.
36/ People will often only rise when they have an occasion. Good leadership creates one.
37/ The problem is not your ambition. The problem is that you're not ambitious enough. Stop settling for lesser things and pursue something greater.