Understanding the concept..............

 

..........................................of enough.

The perfect level of wealth is the one you’re content with.

-Ben Carlson

the ultimate freedom..............?

 

I do not think that a wise man can possibly be free from every perturbation of the mind.

-Marcus Tullius Cicero

Focusing on.......................................

..............................................nutrition.

 

enduring........................

 

Your body reflects what you eat. Your mind reflects what you consume.

For a healthy body, choose whole foods. For a sharp mind, choose lasting knowledge.

What’s lasting knowledge?

It’s wisdom that endures: Timeless principles, foundational ideas, and insights that remain relevant for years, not hours.

Before diving into the news or scrolling through feeds, ask: “Will this still matter next year?” If not, it’s probably mental junk food. The sugar high will leave you craving even more.

Avoid mental junk food. Feed your mind substance. Your future self will thank you.

-as cut-and-pasted from the Farnam Street blog

To your ownself be true....................

 

A talented person can quickly become mediocre when you force them to be someone they aren’t.

-Morgan Housel, from here

The basic...................................

 

................................................basics.

Wisdom........................

 Life is unexpected and often unfair in many ways.

You can do all the right things and plan for a host of eventualities but sometimes it doesn’t matter. Life can get in the way regardless of your plans.

So you do the best you can. You save. You give yourself a margin of safety. You enjoy yourself today while planning for tomorrow.

Then you roll with the punches depending on what life throws your way.

-Ben Carlson, from here

it behooves us....................

. . . if before us someone has inquired into [wisdom], it behooves us to seek help from what he has said. It is irrelevant whether he belongs to our community or to another.

-Averroes

an interesting collection..................

  I sought good judgment mostly by collecting instances of bad judgment, then pondering ways to avoid such outcomes. 

-Charlie Munger

ground rules.................

 Here's a rule of life: you have to be there. You have to listen and laugh and argue and comfort the people around you in a multitude of exchanges where life's mystery means you may not know just which exchange was the most important.

-Michael Wade

The new math..................................

Sometimes, the best addition to our lives is actually subtraction.

Motivation..........................

 ..........................................in a crazy world.

A useful channel.....................

 ..................................for questions and answers.

Eighty percent.......................

 ...........................................of human wisdom!

The trouble with facts................

 There is a tendency to mistake data for wisdom, just as there has always been a tendency to confuse logic with values, intelligence with insight. Unobstructed access to facts can produce unlimited good only if it is matched by the desire and ability to find out what they mean and where they lead. Facts are terrible things if left sprawling and unattended. They are too easily regarded as evaluated certainties rather than as the rawest of raw materials crying to be processed into the texture of logic. It requires a very unusual mind, Whitehead said, to undertake the analysis of a fact. The computer can provide a correct number, but it may be an irrelevant number until judgment is pronounced.

-Norman Cousins

thanks Michael

Mistakes were made................

 

• Assuming that rules are rules.

-A more complete error list can be found here

Mighty fine advice....................

 Let's lower our voices, listen carefully, and have a great year.

-Michael Wade

About explaining.............

 The more time it takes to explain a course of action, the less likely it is to be a good one.

-from our friends at Farnum Street

Pensieri.........................

 

much more from Nicholas Bate here

Checking in with.....................................

 ............................Shane Parrish:

The formula for failure is a few small errors consistently repeated.

When you don't communicate what's most important, people are left guessing about what matters.

The future is not like the weather.  It doesn't just happen to us.  We shape our future with the choices we make in the present, just as our present situation was shaped by choices we made in the past.

Admitting you're wrong isn't a sign of weakness, it's a sign of strength.

The biggest mistake people make isn't their initial mistake.  It's the mistake of trying to cover up and avoid responsibility for it.  The first mistake is expensive; the second one costs a fortune.

The most critical step in any decision-making process is to get the problem right.

The way you define a problem changes what you see.

Shifting your frame of reference is a powerful safeguard against blind spots.

Show me your role models and I'll show you your future.

Few things are more important in life than avoiding the wrong people.

You don't tap into peoples' resourcefulness, intelligence, and skills by command-and-control.