You need to organize your family with a certain amount of discipline and a certain amount of structure so that you get to do what you want, so that you are happy to have your kids around, so that you won't take revenge on them

ყველაზე დიდი გამარჯვება, ფილოსოფოსებს აქვთ ნათქვამი, საკუთარ თავზე გამარჯვება არისო

Your best strategic position is how am I insufficient and how can I rectify that. That's what you've got. And the thing is you are insufficient and you could rectify it. Both of those are within your grasp if you aim low enough

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 way to not do very well in any hierarchy is to have a low IQ. If you have an IQ of less than 85 it's hard for you to read well enough to follow instructions. that's about 10% of the population. Might even be higher than that

Reach down inside of you and come up with some more of those remarkable human gifts. They're there, waiting to be utilized and then change anything for you you want to change. And I challenge you to do that because you can change

რომ მიიღო, უნდა გასცე ჯერ!
სიყვარული, პატივისცემა, ერთგულება, ქონება,.. გაეცით და მიიღებთ

Opposites are in conflict and we are in the middle

It seems like opposites are in conflict and we are in the middle. Evil on one side, good on the other side; Illness on one side, good health on the other side; Darkness on one side, light on the other side and they are in conflict

Productivity to MAX

You really won't be that happy if you don't produce. Produce to the max if you possibly can.
To produce a little is okay.
To produce enough is okay.
To produce some to get by is alright.
But why not try productivity to the max?

If you do your best and you make $10,000 a year, that's enough.
If you do your best and you make a million a year, that's enough.
Enough is not the difference between $10,000 and a million, ENOUGH is simply - doing the best you can

Analyze what's going on between you and whoever you're talking to, another person, whether it's a business conversation or a social conversation - you've got to be keenly aware of what's happening to whoever you're communicating with

Unfortunately many of the people who are talking about things like gender differences they have no idea what they are talking about. They don't know the literature. They don't know there is a literature. They don't understand biology

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

Always keep a journal. Don't trust your memory. If you want to live a dynamic life, multiplying your income, multiplying your future, be a good student. If a good idea comes your way write it down, then ponder it, then perhaps go do it

Learn from personal experience. One way to learn to do something write is - first do it wrong. Mess up and then you say WOW! That was costly, I'm never gonna do that again. Sometimes a negative experience turns out finally to be positive

Each person's income is determined primarily by their philosophy not by the economy. Once I understood that, then I said - I don't have to go to work on the economy. You only have to go to work on yourself, to make yourself more valuable

You have to believe things or you could not exist, you could not act. You have to hold on to the dogmatic structure of your belief.
But you have to be open for it's update on a continual basis. That's basically what consciousness is for

Tragedy combined with betrayal and malevolence makes life even worse. Especially if it's self induced. You need something to set against that so you don't get bitter and resentful. What do you set against that? Doing something worthwhile!

How many languages can a child learn?

I asked a school teacher - How many languages can a child learn ?
Here is what she said - As many as you will teach them.
They don't lack capacity;
They don't lack intelligence;
Certainly don't lack curiosity;
They only lack a TEACHER

Agreeable people don't make as much money and the reason for that is to make money you actually have to be disagreeable. Because you have to go to your boss and say - give me some bloody money or something you don't like will happen to you

Despite how tragic life is and how malevolent things are, our spirit has the capacity to confront it courageously and fix it, not only to deal with it psychologically but to deal with it practically. And that we could make things much better

The closest a human being could ever get to direct confrontation with the absolute unknown was to look up at the night sky.
Because the night sky, especially when it's sprinkled with stars confronts you directly with the fact of the infinite

If you want to change the world you start from yourself and work outward because you build your competence that way.
I don't know how you can go out and protest the structure of the entire economic system if you can't keep your room organized

Sometimes from the bitterest experience comes the greatest awakening. So let down the barriers. Take down the walls. The same wall that keeps out disappointment keeps out happiness. Let life touch you, don't let it kill you but let it touch you