One Way to Remove Obstacles in Your Life
“The only way around is through.” —Robert Frost
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One Way to Keep Flying Towards Your Goals
“If you were born without wings, do nothing to prevent them from growing.” —Coco Chanel
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Why You Need to Get Outside More
“Not all classrooms have four walls.” —Anonymous
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Invest in Learning
Intellectual capital will always trump financial capital.
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Invest in Knowledge
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
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Easily Learned Principles
It never ceases to amaze me to see how much territory can be grasped if one merely masters and consistently...
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Reading and Thinking
We both, Warren Buffett and I, insist on a lot of time being available almost every day to just sit...
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Learn Vicariously
The more hard lessons you can learn vicariously rather than through your own hard experience, the better.
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Commit to Learning and Thinking
My habit of committing far more time to learning and thinking than to doing is no accident.
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Learning Machines
I constantly see people rise in life who are not the smartest, sometimes not even the most diligent, but they...
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Forgetting Your Mistakes
Forgetting your mistakes is a terrible error if you’re trying to improve your cognition. Reality doesn’t remind you. Why not...
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Repetition in Learning
Repetition is the heart of instruction.
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Continue to Learn
The name of the game is continuing to learn. Even if you’re very well trained and have some natural aptitude,...
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Rub Your Nose in Mistakes
Since mistakes of omission don’t appear in the financial statements, most people don’t pay attention to them. We rub our...
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Smarter Earlier
Whoever makes you smarter a little earlier in life makes you better.
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Master the Best
I believe in the discipline of mastering the best that other people have ever figured out. I don’t believe in...
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Meeting Towering Intellectuals
I met the towering intellectuals in books, not in the classroom, which is natural. I can’t remember when I first...
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Face and Solve Your Problems
The only problem we really have is we think we’re not supposed to have problems! Problems call us to higher...
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Following a Multidisciplinary Path
If you skillfully follow the multidisciplinary path, you will never wish to come back. It would be like cutting off...
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An Afternoon with Socrates
I would trade all of my technology for an afternoon with Socrates.
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I Would Have Been in Jail
I know from my own education that if I hadn’t encountered two or three individuals that spent extra time with...
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On Ben Franklin and Samuel Johnson: “They were both utterly brilliant men. And powerful communicators. Both have helped me all...
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Warren spends 70 hours a week thinking about investing.
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Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up. Day by day, and...
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Follow Your Heart and Intuition
Follow your heart and your intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
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Those who will not face improvements because they are changes, will face changes that are not improvements.
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Obviously if you want to get good at something which is competitive, you have to think about it and practice...
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Expand Your Horizons
I started to listen to music a whole lot and I started to read more outside of just science and...
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If you’re lazy and unreliable, it doesn’t matter what you’re good at.
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Go to bed smarter than when you woke up.
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It is really useful to be reminded of your errors. I think Warren Buffett and I are pretty good at...
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If you get a lot of heavy ideology young, and then you start expressing it, you are really locking your...
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Higher Consciousness
The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.
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A Journey’s Beginning
A thousand miles starts from beneath one’s feet.
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Day by Day Growth
Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.
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It’s hard to believe that he’s getting better with each passing year. It won’t go on forever, but Warren is...
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There is no way you can live an adequate life without making many mistakes.
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Your Desire to Learn
Free education is abundant, all over the Internet. It’s the desire to learn that’s scarce.
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Don’t Micromanage Yourself
If you try to micromanage yourself all you’re going to do is make yourself miserable.
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Rapid Destruction of Your Ideas
We all are learning, modifying, or destroying ideas all the time. Rapid destruction of your ideas when the time is...
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As I continued through Cicero’s pages, I found much more material celebrating my way of life.
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