Much of the advice we’ve been told about achievement is logical, earnest…and downright wrong. In Barking Up the Wrong Tree, Eric Barker reveals the extraordinary science behind what actually determines success and most importantly, how anyone can achieve it. You’ll learn:
• Why valedictorians rarely become millionaires, and how your biggest weakness might actually be your greatest strength
Ryan Holiday, The 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
Don't trust in your reputation, money, or position, but in the strength that is yours — namely, your judgments about the things that you control. For this alone is what makes us free and unfettered, that picks us up by the neck from the depths and lifts us eye to eye with the rich and powerful. — Epictetus, Discourses, 3.26.34-35
18 Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth.
19 This is how we know that we belong to the truth and how we set our hearts at rest in his presence:20 If our hearts condemn us, we know that God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything.21 Dear friends, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God22 and receive from him anything we ask, because we keep his commands and do what pleases him.23 And this is his command: to believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and to love one another as he commanded us.24 The one who keeps God’s commands lives in him,and he in them. And this is how we know that he lives in us: We know it by the Spirit he gave us.
Low self confidence may turn you into a pessimist, but when pessimism teams up with ambition is often produces outstanding performance. To be very best at anything, you will need to be your harshest critic, and that is almost impossible when your starting point is high self confidence.
—Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic(resource)Eric Barker, Barking Up the Wrong Tree
Ryan Holiday, The 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
For even peace itself will supply more reason to worry. Not even safe circumstances will bring you confidence once your mind has been shocked — once it get in the habit of blind panic, it can't provide for its own safety. For it doesn't really avoid danger, it just runs away. Yet we are exposed to greater danger with our backs turned. — Seneca, Moral Letters, 104.10b
September 12th: Be down to earth, or be brought down
Ryan Holiday, The 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
Zeno always said that nothing was more unbecoming than putting on airs, especially with the young. — Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Eminent Philosophers, 7.1.22
