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"Every man should be able to save his own life. He should be able to swim far enough, run fast and long enough to save his life in case of emergency and necessity. He should be able to chin himself a reasonable number of times, as well as to dip a number of times, and he should be able to jump a reasonable height and distance." — Liederman, Endurance

We are always in the process of approaching truth and perfection without actually ever reaching truth and perfection.

Well, I'm always wrong about everything, over and over and over again, and that's why my life improves.

Growth is an endlessly iterative process. When we learn something new, we don't go from "wrong" to "right." Rather we go from wrong to slightly less wrong.

Fault is past tense. Responsibility is present tense.

Fault results from choices that have already been made. Responsibility results from the choices you're currently making, every second of ever day.

"With great power comes great responsibility."

a better version of this quote is

"With great responsibility comes great power."

Choosing to not respond to the events in our lives is still a response to the events in our lives.

There is a simple realization from which call personal improvement and growth emerges, this is the realization that we, individually, are responsible for everything in our lives, no matter the external circumstances.

We don't always control what happens to us. But we always control how we interpret what happens to us, as well as how we respond.

Self Improvement is really about: prioritizing better values, choosing better things to give a fuck about. Because when you give better fucks, you get better problems. And when you get better problems, you get a better life.

Our values determine the metrics by which we measure ourselves and everyone else.

Two things are operating here: a value that I hold dear, and a metric that I use to assess progress toward that value.

The third level of self-awareness onion is our personal values: Why do I consider this to be success/failure? How am I choosing to measure myself? By what standard am I judging myself and everyone around me?

The second layer of self-awareness onion is an ability to ask why we feel certain emotions.

"Why do you feel angry?" Is it because you failed to achieve some goal? "Why do you feel lethargic and uninspired?" Is it because you don't think you're good enough

The first layer of self-awareness onion is a simple understanding of one's emotions.

"This is when I feel happy", "This makes me feel sad", "This gives me hope."

We all deserve greatness.

The fact that this statement is inherently contradictory — after all, if `everyone` were extraordinary, then by definition `no one` would be extraordinary — is missed by most people.

The flood of extreme information has conditioned us to believe that exceptionalism is the new normal. And because we're all quite average most of the time, the deluge of exceptional information drives us to feel pretty damn insecure and desperate, because clearly we are somehow not good enough.

Who you are is defined by what you're willing to struggle for.

Problems never stop; they merely get exchanged and/or upgraded.

Happiness comes from solving problems. The keyword here is "solving", If your're avoiding your problesm or feel like you don't have any problems, then you're going to make yourself miserable.

Life is essentially an endless series of problems

Don't hope for a life without problems, There's no such thing. Instead, hope for a life full of good problems.

The emotional pain of rejection or failure teaches us how to avoid making the same mistakes in the future.

Our own pain and misery aren't a bug of human evolution; they're a feature.

I once heard an artist say that when a person has no problems, the mind automatically finds a way to invent some.

If you don't find that meaningful something, your fucks will be given to meaningless and frivolous causes.

You can't be an important and life-changing presence for some people without also a joke and an embarrassment to others. You just can't.

You can't be an important and life-changing presence for some people without also a joke and an embarrassment to others. You just can't.

The desire for a more positive experience is itself a negative experience. And, paradoxically, the acceptance of one's negative experience is itself a positive experience.

Wanting positive experience is a negative experience; accepting negative experience is a positive experience.

Pretend to be completely in control and people will assume that you are.