Wisdom Quotes for Personal Growth and Daily Success

Cortisol makes you old

If you have a memory that's more than 18 month old approximately and when you pull that memory up to mind, if you still have an emotional reaction, that means you have not fully articulated the memory. You have not analyzed it causally, you have not freed yourself from its grasp and you are carrying it like a weight and your brain responds to that. The more baggage you are carrying like that the more stress hormone cortisol your brain produces and cortisol makes you old

What do you want to do the next 10 years?

Take some time and decide what you want.
Where do you want to go?
What do you want to do the next 10 years, 20 years?
What would you like to become?
How many skills would you like to learn?
What are the books you want to read?
How about the people you want to meet?
The cities you want to visit, experiences you would like to have over this next period of time.
Start thinking about all of that.
Write it all down!

I can't imagine anything we could possibly strive for in our society that would make it into hell faster than equality of outcome. Historical evidence for the pathology of that root is so strong. You have to be historically ignorant beyond belief or malevolent or resentful beyond comprehension in order to think that that's a good idea

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