Be extra careful in the work environment with those who like to maintain their position through charm and being political, rather than by getting things done.

Emotions tend to narrow the mind, making us focus on one or two ideas that satisfy our immediate desire for power or attention, ideas that usually backfire.

Channel your dark side into something productive.

Clip from my conversation with Andrew D. Huberman, Ph.D.

Human nature is stronger than any individual, than any institution or technological invention. It ends up shaping what we create to reflect itself and its primitive roots. It moves us around like pawns.

Like everyone, you think you are rational, but you are not. Rationality is not a power you are born with but one you acquire through training and practice.

Never get discouraged, never be petty; always remember, others may hate you, but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.

Most communication is non-verbal. Be aware.

Clip taken from my conversation with LAURYN BOSSTICK and Michael Bosstick

Rid yourself of the desire to find shortcuts.

When choosing people to work and associate with, do not be mesmerized by their reputation or taken in by the surface image they try to project. Instead, train yourself to look deep within them, to their past actions, to see their character.

Here are some of the best moments from my conversations with my former mentee and good friend Ryan Holiday
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You may have brilliant ideas, the kind that could revolutionize the world, but unless you can express them effectively, they will have no force, no power to enter people’s minds in a deep and lasting way.

Stop blaming other people for your problems.

Embrace your strangeness. Identify what makes you different. Fuse those things together and become an anomaly.

Act before it becomes impossible to disentangle one strand of misery from another, or to see how the whole thing started.

The curse of instant dating.

Clip from my conversation with Theo Von