You will not live life from one epiphany to another.
Real progress in life a series of small improvements that compound.
Always be a student and, sometimes, be a teacher.
The tendency of being hardcore on yourself is not productive over the long-term.
Hold yourself accountable, but do not destroy yourself as you try to self-actualize. Have mercy.
"Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself."
— Coco Chanel
“Make your life an ongoing process of being who you are, at your deepest, most easeful levels of being. Everything other than this process is secondary. Your job, your children, your wife, your money, your artistic creation, your pleasures — they are superficial and empty if they are not floating in the deep sea of your conscious loving.”
— David Deida, The Way of the Superior Man, Chapter 5
Once you can sit still for several minutes and let it all soak in, you will understand that to become ONE; you must allow that ONE to breathe and be.
Breathe and proceed.
The main thing is to make history, not to write it. Achieve perfect liberation from materialism by having the discipline to do what you know you have to execute
As a Venture Capitalist, you must be able to sell (1) you and the firm, (2) the company, and (3) returns. Sell these 3 well and you might win in VC.
The past couple of weeks have been pretty exhausting. I am still in the process of moving to the East Coast and it is taking far longer than what I would have h
