Ryan Holiday, The 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
We should take wandering outdoor walks, so that the mind might be nourished and refreshed by the open air and deep breathing. —Seneca, On Tranquility of Mind, 17.8
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Stop trying to be perfect at everything. Try, fail, and learn like those crazy kindergarteners who smoked the competition in the Spaghetti Problem. And I do mean literally; a study showed that we're more creative when we think like a kid. We don't like to admit it, but often we really don't know what we want. — Eric Barker(resource) Barking Up the Wrong Tree
June 12th: A trained mind is better than any script
Ryan Holiday, The 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
In this way you must understand how laughable it is to say, "Tell me what to do!" What advice could I possibly give? No, a far better request is, "Train my mind to adapt to any circumstance"... In this way, if circumstances take you off script... you won't be deperate for a new prompting. —Epictetus, Discourses, 2.2.20b-1;24b-25a
