Value: maxed out. Still, we wish to experience that. — “Man has gone out to explore other worlds and other civilizations without having explored his own labyrinth of dark passages and secret chambers, and without finding what lies behind doorways that he himself has sealed.” ― Stanisław Lem Space travel merits the time and cash right off the bat since…

The best skill you can ever have psychologically. — “Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate, and to…

Everything can happen until you give it a chance. — “I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so made companionship with what there was around me, sometimes with the universe and sometimes with my own insignificant self, but my books were always my friends, let fail all else.” — Joshua Slocum Being desolate isn’t…

There are always some substantial reasons to start over. — “I’m now much less of an asset to the company than I could be. I keep my head down and for self-preservation just do my work with little conversation with anyone. Yet the irony is this: in my self-preservation, I’m actually destroying myself. In bottling up my unexpressed feelings, I’m…

Establishing the pillars and insider mindset is an exploded combination. — “Our job in this life is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be but to find out who we already are and become it.” — Steven Pressfield We find out about prodigies and their thoughts in school, yet how could they get those thoughts…

It’s an obligation of many but not in favor of everyone. — “If brainstorming becomes ‘blamestorming’ by reason of time pressure or on account of pure laziness, the truth may be assaulted and unyieldingly vilified . Blamestorming becomes then downright a perfidious appeal to scapegoating with a torrent of frantic manhunts for ‘culprits on duty’. (‘Blamestorming’)” — Erik Pevernagie Brainstorming is the…

Using resources in great moments and then grieving for those in the worst phases is useless. — “Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.” — Charles Dickens There is no examination demonstrating that sex or knowledge impacts one’s propensity to dawdle. However, age may have something to do with it. One exploration study finds that procrastination tops in the mid-to-late twenties diminishes for the following forty…