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[W @__davidwolf]

“All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger…but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer.” —Niccolo Machiavelli #4HWW

[W @__davidwolf]

“It is far better for a man to go wrong in freedom than to go right in chains.” —Thomas H. Huxley #4HWW

[W @__davidwolf]

“There are two synergistic approaches for increasing productivity that are inversions of each other:

1. Limit tasks to the important to shorten work time (80/20).
2. Shorten work time to limit tasks to the important (Parkinson’s Law).”

#4HWW

[W @__davidwolf]

“Being efficient without regard to effectiveness is the default mode of the universe…doing something unimportant well does not make it important…requiring a lot of time does not make a task important.” #4HWW

[W @__davidwolf]

Selective ignorance.

[W @__davidwolf]

“If the recipe sucks, it doesn’t matter how good of a cook you are.” #4HWW

[W @__davidwolf]

“What is the pot of gold that justifies spending the best years of your life hoping for happiness in the last?” —4HWW

[W @__davidwolf]

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.” —Mark Twain

[W @__davidwolf]

“Any action not directed toward a social end (directly or indirectly) is a disturbance to your life, an obstacle to wholeness, a source of dissension.” #meditations

[W @__davidwolf]

“…today I shall meet people who are meddling, ungrateful, malicious...the nature of the offender himself is akin to my own…same mind, same fragment of divinity…to work in opposition to one another is against nature / anger or rejection is opposition.” #meditations

[W @__davidwolf]

“A man standing by a spring of clear, sweet water, cursing it...he can shovel mud into it…the stream will carry it away, wash itself clean, remain unstained…a perpetual spring.” #meditations

[W @__davidwolf]

“External things are not the problem. It’s your assessment of them. Which you can erase right now.” #meditations

[W @__davidwolf]

“Herds, armies, farms; weddings, divorces, births, deaths; noisy courtrooms, desert places; all the foreign peoples; holidays, days of mourning, market days…all mixed together, a harmony of opposites.” #meditations

[W @__davidwolf]

“What injures the hive injures the bee.” #meditations

[W @__davidwolf]

“If we limited ‘good’ or ‘bad’ to our own actions, we’d have no call to challenge God, or or treat other people as enemies.” #meditations

[W @__davidwolf]

“Keep reminding yourself of the way things are connected, of their relatedness. All things are implicated in one another and in sympathy with each other. This event is the consequence of some other one. Things push and pull…breathe together, and are one.” #meditations

[W @__davidwolf]

“…his tolerance of people who openly questioned his views and his delight at seeing his ideas improved upon…his piety—without a trace of superstition.” #Antoninus #meditations

[W @__davidwolf]

“Think how much is going inside you every second—in your soul, in your body. Why would it astonish you that so much more—everything that happens in that all-embracing unity, the world—is happening at the same time?” #meditations

[W @__davidwolf]

“The longer time under tension (TUT) for the lower body will elicit a greater full-body growth hormone response while stimulating the formation of new capillaries, which will improve nutrient delivery.” #4HB @tferriss

[W @__davidwolf]

“Often the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it.” —Twain #4HB