“To ignore the power of paradigms to influence your judgement is to put yourself at risk (more…)

“Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake.  Our fires are damped, our drafts are checked.  We are making use of only a small pert of our possible mental and physical resources.  … The human individual thus lives usualy far within his limits; he posseses powers of various sorts which he habitually fails to use.  He energizes below his maximum, and behaves below his optimum.   … Either some unusual stimulus fills them with emotional excitement, or some unusual idea of necessity induces them to make an extra effort of will.  Excitements, ideas, and efforts in a word, are what carry us over the dam.”

— William James

“Happiness is not something ready made. (more…)

If you only think about your own advancement, your own success,
you run out of fuel pretty quickly. But if we believed in
something bigger than ourselves, that kind of motivation is
self-sustaining.

— Elaine Chao

“Man is made or unmade by himself. (more…)

“Nothing would be done at all, (more…)