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Stop saying things that make you weak!
Stop telling lies that you know to be lies!
Stop doing things you know to be useless and counterproductive!
Aim high!
Adopt some responsibility and then see what the hell happens!

There is evil in the world of all sorts and some of it's the evil in other people. And some of it is the evil in your brother's heart. But part of it that you can really do something about that's the malevolence in your own heart. You can actually do something about that and that's actually way more useful than you think. Because if you can face it in you, then you start to understand it and that also makes you strong enough to identify it and to fight it when you see it in the external world. Plus you don't do any harm

Clinical psychologists don't stick with high level abstractions, especially the behaviors, they are really practical

If you are not a disciplined person it's uncomfortable, it's going to be painful, it's frustrating... You have to force yourself into this things. It's a muscle that has to be developed. These patterns have to be developed in your mindset. Incrementally

It's painful to understand how much of what you are doing is not productive

Go out there, find the dragon, confront it. It's a dragon, it might eat you, it's dangerous, but it's worse to cower at home and wait for it to come and devour you. Go out there! Confront it! Get the gold! Share it with the community

If you confront the world forthrightly, if you speak the truth and you expose yourself courageously to those things that you are afraid of then your life will improve and so will the life of people around you

No matter how bad your situation is, if you stand up and face it, with a noble vision, with discipline and intent, you can go far farther to overcoming it than you can imagine. And that's the principle upon which you should predicate your behavior

You should understand how much potential there is within you to set that straight and then you should do everything you can to manifest that in the world and then it will set it straight

You should treat yourself as if you are valuable, especially in potential. But you should concentrate on who you should become, especially if you are young

How do you make the world better? Tell the truth! Because the world you bring into being as a consequence of telling the truth will be a good world. I think it's true metaphorically, I think it's true theologically and I think it's true at the practical and scientific level as well

If you tell the truth, you transform the potential of being into a habitable actuality

Speak the truth because your life turns out better if you speak the truth

It's not like what's coming isn't dangerous, it's dangerous, but your best bet is to be dancing on your feet and ready for it, pay attention and be awake

Confront chaos voluntarily
Establish and revivify order
Constrain malevolence
That's a good three-part for life

It's a stupid game to betray your future self to gratify your present self

You want to have a life that's so engaging that you think despite the fact that I am limited and that we are mortal and that life is tragedy and there is evil in the world, despite all that this is worth doing

To be a winner...

To be a winner, you want to be disciplined, you want to know what you are doing and you want to be on the edge where your skills are being developed. That way you are at a place where losing is always a possibility, because otherwise you are not pushing yourself beyond your current capacity

Life is not a game, it's a series of games. And the right ethic is to be the winner of the series of games. And part of that means that you have to learn how to be a good looser because you are not going to win every single game

One definition of a winner is someone who never let losing stop them

It's better to be a warrior in a garden then a gardener in a war

Those who have swords and know how to use them but keep them sheathed will inherit the world

You should be a monster, an absolute monster and then you should learn how to control it

Take care of yourself!
Take care of your intimate partner!
Take care of your damn family!
Don't run off!
Take care of your community!
Rescue the wisdom from the past!
Stand up straight and be courageous despite the fact that life is tragic and tainted by malevolence!
That's ancient wisdom