If you don't wake up excited and go to bed tired, drop everything and think of what your future will look like if you keep repeating the same day for the rest of your life. Sit with that discomfort until a new direction appears.
Milton Friedman on inflation:
“Inflation is just like alcoholism. In both cases when you start drinking or when you start printing too much money, the good effects come first. The bad effects only come later.”
“That’s why in both cases there is a strong temptation to overdo it: to drink too much and to print too much money.”
“When it comes to the cure, it’s the other way around. When you stop drinking or when you stop printing money, the bad effects come first and the good effects only come later.”
“That’s why it’s so hard to persist with the cure.”
Ethics is often treated as morality.
It is actually strategy.
Ethical systems reduce corruption, improve trust, and stabilize institutions.
Ignoring ethics is not pragmatic—it is reckless.
Ethics is not weakness.
It is long-term intelligence.
Ethics is strategy.