Tag: bookmarks

• September 6, 2023

  Road Not Taken

  

  You should nev­er look down the road not tak­en. Because that road nev­er leads to where you think it should. Nev­er Look Down the Road Not Tak­en by Nick Mag­giul­li Read more

• July 15, 2023

  Most important takeaway from surprises

  

  When­ev­er we are sur­prised by some­thing, even if we admit that we made a mis­take, we say, ‘Oh I’ll nev­er make that mis­take again.’ But, in fact, what you should learn when you make a mis­take because you did not antic­i­pate some­thing is that the world is dif­fi­cult to antic­i­pate. That’s the cor­rect les­son to learn from… Read more

• April 23, 2023

  Happiness and Expectations

  

  What actu­al­ly brings hap­pi­ness is the con­trast between what you have now and what­ev­er you were just doing. When you real­ize how pow­er­ful expec­ta­tions are, you put as much effort into keep­ing them low as you do into improv­ing your cir­cum­stances. Hap­pi­ness, con­tent­ment, joy … all of those things come from expe­ri­enc­ing a gap between expec­ta­tions… Read more

• August 20, 2022

  Useful and overlooked skill I practice

  

  If you can’t use your legs and they bring you milk when you want­ed orange juice, you learn to say ‘that’s all right,’ and drink it. Franklin Delano Roo­sevelt via Mor­gan Housel Read more

• July 20, 2022

  Good things take time

  

  As I become impa­tient with a cou­ple of long-term goals that don’t seem to be pro­gress­ing fast enough, I seek solace from a cou­ple of encour­ag­ing per­spec­tives on time: Near­ly every­thing awe­some takes longer than you think. Get start­ed and don’t wor­ry about the clock. James Clear Demo­ti­vat­ed because of how long it’ll take? Remem­ber the time will pass… Read more

• July 4, 2022

  Possessions and Lifestyle

  

  Our pos­ses­sions should be suit­ed to our bod­ies and lives, just as our shoes are suit­ed to our feet. Epicte­tus I recent­ly read The Man­u­al: A Philoso­pher’s Guide to Life and have been pon­der­ing over the above quote from that book. That’s the phi­los­o­phy I apply when I buy things, from the clothes I wear to my phone and… Read more

• May 29, 2022

  Five Years

  

  Five years is a long time. It is much slow­er than most of us would like. If you accept the real­i­ty of slow progress, you have every rea­son to take action today. If you resist the real­i­ty of slow progress, five years from now you’ll sim­ply be five years old­er and still look­ing for a short­cut. James… Read more

• May 12, 2022

  Chop wood, carry water

  

  I recent­ly read Carl Richard­s’s per­son­al finance book The Behav­ior Gap, in which I came across this quote that struck a chord with me: When the Zen mas­ter Wu Li was asked what to do to achieve enlight­en­ment, he respond­ed, “Chop wood, car­ry water.” When he was asked what to do when you have achieved enlight­en­ment, herespond­ed,… Read more

• March 21, 2022

  Price of things

  

  Mon­ey is often a neg­a­tive art. What you don’t do can be more impor­tant than what you active­ly do. Every­thing has a price, and prices aren’t always clear. The price of exer­cise isn’t just the work­out; it’s avoid­ing the post-work­out urge to eat a ton of food. Same in finance. The price of build­ing wealth isn’t just the trou­ble of… Read more

• February 21, 2022

  Ego vs outcome

  

  When you decou­ple your ego from a bad out­come, it cre­ates an oppor­tu­ni­ty for you to learn from it. When you decou­ple your ego from a good out­come, it saves you from future dis­as­ters. Vishal Khan­del­w­al in How to Stop Sab­o­tag­ing Your Invest­ing In that post Vishal men­tions What I learned by los­ing a mil­lion dol­lars book, which is… Read more