Every logical decision points in the same direction. Its time to take that direction ( Read more... )

There's a certain kind of clarity that comes from reading Atlas Shrugged. A perfect joy from knowing one's virtue is right.

 When you start caring about someone, it changes the whole dynamic of not just your relationship with them, but your relationship with yourself.

Let's break this down a bit. Say you care about someone. You care that they make it home safe. You care that they had a good day. You care that they smile.

You care about what they have to say. You care ( Read more... )

• Never have my own place again. It's too hard to move out.
• Minimize my things to that which will fit in a few bags.
• Always have toiletries, a snack, a bottle for water, and a knife.
• Must have: a laptop.

Aim Clear Blog has a post on writing outside of the first person and externalizing credit while internalizing fault as a means of being highly successful.
Truly great leaders (level 5) share a number of mostly-common traits. One of them is crediting others (looking out the window) for success and taking responsibility (looking in the mirror) for ( Read more... )

If you abstain from sex, you will never have a child.

If you abstain from knowledge, you will never have a clue.

Having a clue changes a person forever, and it's not easy being the parent of a clue.

Clues have to grow up too, and at some point they become an idea. And when that idea is all grown up, you have to let it out into the world. It's painful ( Read more... )

Certain behaviors are expected in certain environments. What you say and do with your friends isn't necessarily what you would say and do with your coworkers, or at the dinner table with your romantic interest's parents - but that's pretty obvious right? To you maybe, but there are quite a few people out there that just don't realize that certain ( Read more... )

You are your own worst enemy - because after all, who do you spend the most time with? The only time you will be tortured by an enemy is when you are with that enemy - and you are with yourself your entire life. It makes sense that you should know yourself best of all - but the subjective is always so much more allusive than the objective. It's ( Read more... )

What's good for the goose is good for the gander.

But a penguin can't fly, and it might not be good for him anyways.

They say "don't rock the boat" - but I say, you gotta take a bath sometime. Harmony doesn't mean silent abstainance, and it is not an easy road to follow, by any stretch of the imagination.

The river may appear serene on the surface, but underneath is a current, and an entire eco-system with thousands of little communities working in harmony and ( Read more... )