Compensation: Promised dinner with Kurt Cobain when older, unfortunately outlives Kurt Cobain, begrudgingly turns down dinner invitation from Courtney Love. Chosen for: Indifference towards capitalist Western ideals, willingness to go “below the diaper” for additional breastfeeding.
Facebook is the Good Guy Greg of online interactions. Facebook just wants to have a good time! Check out these pictures from Olivia’s trip to Spain! Dude! Jeff just won $50 in the lottery! Isn’t that sweet? Let’s poke, bro! Let’s chat!
If one’s quest is to achieve some great end—be it money, power, fame—then already that person is doomed to a life of suffering and strife.
The quality of a decision looks completely different from different perspectives. We all want to make good choices that will make us happy over the long run, but it’s hard to see what those decisions should be if you spend your time worrying about short-term hurdles.
External factors change, you can’t control them, and trying to keep up with them proves useless over time.
Bill Gates, Oprah, Richard Branson. They’ve all revealed that, though they’re incredibly busy, they go for a run each morning before jumping into work. Why do they make this a priority when the demands on their time are so great?
If you’ve struggled to stick with a diet, there’s a simple, proven system to keep you on track.
But when you engage in first principles thinking, you discard existing knowledge and explore it on your own. You question everything you think you know until you reach a “first principle”—an absolute truth that doesn’t have to be explained by another.
Don’t swear off marathons at mile 21! When you’re feeling the most stress at work or during a big project, you’ll also be feeling the biggest urge to make a poor choice.
If things get busy and you let your home, relationships, and happiness flounder while you put out fires elsewhere, eventually you find things just get worse and those higher priorities start to matter less.