This paragraph by Kobe Bryant hits hard:
“Everyone wants to be a beast. Everyone wants to be the best. But very few people are willing to do what it actually takes. Because what it takes is boring. It is waking up at 4:00 AM. It is shooting the same shot a thousand times. It is watching the film when you are tired. People fall in love with the result, but they hate the process. You have to fall in love with the boredom. You have to fall in love with the repetition. If you can find joy in the mundane work that no one else sees, the lights will eventually shine on you.”
Be fragile about everything and it will put you in great shape in every aspect. Don’t talk too much, don’t show too much, don’t eagerly wait for anything, don’t show much love or care, and don’t spend too much. Be as fragile as possible. Giving everything you have means tearing yourself up every minute. Don’t do that. Society won’t give anything back; they just suck it out of you. So be a super-fragile guy in everything.
Nature never punishes the evil. Nature punishes the weak because nature does not know morality, nature doesn't know what is right and what is wrong. And storms never choose victim based on morality. It punishes the weakness, not weakness of character, but weakness to adapt, to evolve, to endure it. Reality rewards resilience. Resilience that can we survive the condition which we have, can we survive the circumstances which are given to us, the person who is resilient enough, the person who is aware enough can actually move through their challenges. That is why nature rewards strength and nature will keep on punishing the weak unless and until that weak become strong. Because that is the only way of evolution. That is the only way of growing.
In a corporate setting: you are always on record. Speak late, Speak little and speak only when it improves your position or you have something to gain from. Words are as treacherous and poisonous, as they are powerful. Anything you say, can and will be used against you. Office politics is just an example of civilised warfare.