A hammer is good only if you stop pounding after the nail is all the way in. Keep pounding and you break the wood.
As a general rule, it's always smarter to criticize people who aren't around.
Being right and being wrong feel exactly the same to all of us. We can’t tell the difference. If we could, everyone would agree on everything important.
Do what you can do, not what you can't. Then build on the momentum.
Energy is good. Passion is bullshit.
Failure always brings something valuable with it. I don’t let it leave until I extract that value.
Favoring action over inaction, even in the face of uncertainty, is generally a good approach to life.
If we knew how often we were wrong about our understanding of just about everything, it would be deeply demotivating.
If you are genuinely trying to understand the world, please avoid judging entire groups by their worst members.
If you see news that is so absurd it is literally unbelievable, that’s usually because it isn’t true.
If your view of the world is that people use reason for their important decisions, you are setting yourself up for a life of frustration and confusion.
It is childlike thinking to insist in all cases that the people who cause problems are the only people who should solve them.
It is loserthink to attack an opponent by acting as dumb as they act. It might feel good, but it isn't a winning strategy.
It is one thing to disagree with an opposing viewpoint, but it is a far bigger problem if you have never heard it.
It's easy to tell when another person is rationalizing (as opposed to being rational), but it is nearly impossible to know when you are doing it yourself.
Let’s stop blaming each other for things that happened more than twenty years ago. Humans change a lot in two decades.
Mowing your lawn is not a slippery slope to shaving your dog.
One of the best pieces of advice I’ve ever heard goes something like this: If you want success, figure out the price, then pay it.
One of the strongest walls in our mental prisons is a thing called history. And history isn’t even real.
Other people are a mess. I think we can agree on that.
Our world rewards action over inaction, at least in the average sense...the person who doesn't try anything at all is unlikely to succeed.
People who seem to have good luck are often the people who have a system that allows luck to find them.
People who understand economics can more easily spot hoaxes because money drives human behavior in predictable ways.
So long as we have lots of warning, humans are astonishingly clever at solving problems, even enormous ones. So figure that into your predictions.
Sometimes the only real difference between crazy people and artists is that artists write down what they imagine seeing.
The frauds of this world always have an advantage, but if you are alert to the influence of money, you can spot them more easily.
There are three important things to know about human beings.… Humans use pattern recognition to understand their world. Humans are very bad at pattern recognition. And they don't know it.
We can’t always tell the difference between the people who are far smarter than us and the people who are dumber. Both groups make choices we can’t understand.
We humans are judgmental people, and we can’t turn off that feature of our brains. Nor would we want to do so, since judging our environment is what keeps us alive.
We’re all putting on an act and hoping the audience buys it.
You might think a topic is too complicated to master for your use, but you might learn otherwise in less than a minute if you bother to check.
