Wisdom

Support’s Active Hydriation

Views: 13Welcome to Brain Food, a weekly newsletter of timeless ideas and insights you can use. Tiny Thoughts * Once something is obvious and working, people tend to underestimate it. ** Most people quit before they reach their best work. Excellence lives in doing a bit more than others. *** The meaning you give work Support’s Active Hydriation

Forget your Audience

Views: 7Directly pirated from Fs. Welcome to Brain Food, a weekly newsletter of timeless ideas and insights you can use. Tiny Thoughts * Obsess over substance, not status. What endures is what matters. ** The hardest truth about happiness is that it’s a choice. Watch how people discuss their problems. They’ll spend hours explaining why Forget your Audience

Find’ing the Points

Views: 8Pirated from the Brainfood mail by farnamstreetblog.com. Sign up there, always use’ful. Hence the share. More fiction has been told in Microsoft Excel than in books. ** Everyone gets knocked down; the difference is who stays down. When you’re on the ground, you’ll hear people saying, ‘That’s not fair’ or ‘That shouldn’t happen.’ The Find’ing the Points

In a Good Position

Views: 16Directly pirated from the farnamstreetblog. Welcome to Brain Food, a weekly newsletter full of timeless ideas and insights you can use. Tiny Thoughts * Two rules to help you be consistent with exercise this year: 1. Show up. 2. You can quit tomorrow. Repeat. ** Stick to the basics: Be reliable. Do your job. In a Good Position

Look Like an Idiot

Views: 29Directly pirated out of the newsletter from Fs.blog. “No one ever made a decision because of a number. They need a story.” — Daniel Kahneman ** “The most powerful person in the world is the storyteller. The storyteller sets the vision, values and agenda of an entire generation that is to come.” — Steve Look Like an Idiot

As We Are Today

Views: 43St. Augustine: Moral Theory Happiness and God – Freedom and Obligation – Need of grace – Evil – the two Cities. Pn. 81, P.I-III St. Augustine’s ethic has this in common with what one might call the typical Greek ethic, that it is eudaemanistic in character, that it proposes an end to human conduct, As We Are Today