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Why Go to School?

If the primary purpose of school was education, the Internet should obsolete it. But school is mainly about credentialing.

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Learning

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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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Study Logic and Math

Study logic and math, because once you’ve mastered them, you won’t fear any book.

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Get Rich Schemes

If you see a get rich quick scheme, that’s someone else trying to get rich off of you.

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Wealth

Hey, Lighten Up

Nothing you do is going to matter that much in the long run. Don’t take yourself so seriously.

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Life's Rules

Live in the Moment

I don’t plan. I’m not a planner. I prefer to live in the moment and be free and to flow

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Planning

Be Irrationally Passionate

The people who succeed are irrationally passionate about something.

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What You Should Be Doing

People spend too much time doing and not enough time thinking about what they should be doing.

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Multiple Fuzzy Desires

The problem happens when we have multiple desires. When we have fuzzy desires.

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Desires

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It’s Easy to Avoid Conflict

The first rule of handling conflict is don’t hang around people who are constantly engaging in conflict.

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Entrepreneurial Success Factor

Good entrepreneurs don’t fail because they stay at it.

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Perseverance

Peace Through Stoicism

A rational person can find peace by cultivating indifference to things outside of their control.

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Starting a Company

It’s never been easier to start a company. It’s never been harder to build one.

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Entrepreneurship

Happiness is a Skill

Happiness is a choice and a skill and you can dedicate yourself to learning that skill and making that choice.

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Happiness

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Break Bad Habits

The power to make and break habits and learning how to do that is really important.

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Make Your Own Luck

You make your own luck if you stay at it long enough.

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Life is Short: Be Happy

This is such a short and precious life that it’s really important that you don’t spend it being unhappy.

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Folly and Stupidity

I’ve seen so much folly and stupidity on the part of our major philanthropic groups, including the World Bank. I

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Business

Loneliness is a Killer

In terms of mortality, loneliness is a killer.

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Loneliness

Don’t Scorn a Cat

Some people scorn a cat and think it not an essential; but the Clemens tribe are not of these.

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Animals

Everyone Drinks Water

My works are like water. The works of the great masters are like wine. But everyone drinks water.

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Humor

We Just Feel

But that is the way we are made: we don’t reason, where we feel; we just feel.

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Feelings

A Battle of Wits

Never have a battle of wits with an unarmed person.

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Forbidden Fruits

The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.

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Know Your Loyalties

Loyalty to a petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

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Stubbornness

The Source of All Humor

The source of all humor is not laughter, but sorrow.

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Humor

Fear-filled Worship

Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals.

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Politics

Honesty: The Lost Art

Honesty: The best of all the lost arts.

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Run from Cruelty

Human beings can be awful cruel to one another.

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Cruelty

Hell in the Corporate World

In the corporate world, if you have analysts, due diligence, and no horse sense you’ve just described hell.

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Business

Fulfill Your Desires

Desire is a contract that you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want.

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Rebelling Against Microsoft

Unfortunately, people are not rebelling against Microsoft. They don’t know any better.

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Your Internal Compass

You ought to have an internal compass. So there should be all kinds of things you won’t do even though

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Focus

Everybody Can’t Beat the Market

The average result has to be the average result. By definition, everybody can’t beat the market.

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Investing

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Business

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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Mistakes Will Be Made

Mistakes will be made.

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