Highly recommend to travel alone at least once in your life.
• No friends
• No routines
• No material items
• No familiar environments
Just you and your thoughts.
Giving up the things you identify with will teach you more about yourself than any self-help book.
On my coffee table at home, I have a piece of driftwood. Its sole purpose is to display a quote by Anaïs Nin, which I see every day:
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
It’s a short reminder that success can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations we are willing to have, and by the number of uncomfortable actions we are willing to take.
There are people who work 70 hours a week for 10 years to make partner at a law firm.
They are rewarded with another 40 years of 70 hours a week.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
Events in life mean nothing if you do not reflect on them in a deep way, and ideas from books are pointless if they have no application to life as you live it.
“Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.”
— Franz Kafka