Quotes About Perspective

If you only engage with people about problems, pretty soon, you'll become the problem for them," and I agree with that.

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. —STEVE JOBS,

Where can you create a "red team" in your life to stress-test your most treasured beliefs?

A good general strategy is reasoning counterfactually: if someone tells you that X is true, ask yourself—(i) what would they say if X really is true, and (ii) what would they say if X is false? If the answer to (i) and (ii) is "they will say roughly what they just said now," then their words provided you with exactly zero information. In general, know when it's really important not to take people's words at 100 percent face value.

La frustración es una cuestión de expectativas.»

21-Day No Complaint experiment that I've written about before on my blog (fourhourblog.com):

Sometimes you need to allow life to save you from getting what you want." Brandon Stanton

Looking somebody in the eye . . . is often the antidote for what is ailing us.

The most important trick to be happy is to realize that happiness is a choice that you make and a skill that you develop. You choose to be happy, and then you work at it.

Así que el filtro se fija automáticamente para tu nombre, porque eso es lo que más te importa.

The key to a great life is simply having a bunch of great days. So you can think about it one day at a time." Mr. Money Mustache

The worst really wasn't that bad.

But what happens if we frame things in terms of elegance instead of strain? Sometimes, we find incredible results with ease instead of stress. Sometimes, we "solve" the problem by completely reframing it.

To enjoy life, you don't need fancy nonsense, but you do need to control your time and realize that most things just aren't as serious as you make them out to be.

Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl The Rational Optimist by Matt Ridley The Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven Pinker Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari Poor Charlie's Almanack by Charlie Munger

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened." —Mark Twain

Life is always happening for us, not to us. It's our job to find out where the benefit is. If we do, life is magnificent.

There's no difference between a pessimist who says, "Oh, it's hopeless, so don't bother doing anything," and an optimist who says, "Don't bother doing anything, it's going to turn out fine anyway.

From Japan to Monaco, from globetrotting single mothers to multimillionaire racecar drivers, the basic rules of successful NR are surprisingly uniform and predictably divergent from what the rest of the world is doing.

Cuál es el peor consejo que ves u oyes dar en tu entorno?

It's impossible to be angry and grateful simultaneously. When you're grateful, there is no fear. You can't be fearful and grateful simultaneously.

Others include "Be expensive" (see Marc Andreessen, page 170), "Expect disaster" (see Tony Robbins, page 210), and "Own as little as possible" (see Jason Nemer, page 46, and Kevin Kelly, page 470).

being able to view things as they are as opposed to what everybody says about them,

If a narrative isn't working, well then, really, why are you using it? The narrative isn't done to you; the narrative is something that you choose. Once we can dig deep and find a different narrative, then we ought to be able to change the game.