Bruce Lee

Because you might as well be dead.

Seriously, if you always put limits on what you can do, physical or anything else, it’ll spread over into the rest of your life. It’ll spread into your work, into your morality, into your entire being. There are no limits. There are plateaus, but you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. If it kills you, it kills you.

A man must constantly exceed his level.

The Road Less Traveled

Discipline = Delaying gratification + Acceptance of responsibility + Dedication to truth + Balancing

We have to face our problems and suffer to get better and grow.  Legitimate suffering involved in facing and tackling problems hone our character and help us to build strength to progress in life.

Walking & Thinking

“The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.” – Theodore Roosevelt

“If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.” – Bruce Lee

I have failed

I took a test today and I have failed. It hurts, as I didn’t sleep the night before and spent all night cramming.

Perspective and feedback:

Don’t cram the night before, work hard and hone your skills days, weeks, and months in advance so when it’s the crunch time you’re confident.

Don’t let this ever happen again, cherish chances and opportunities!

The Bus Ticket Theory of Genius

Great Work = Natural Ability + Determination + an obsessive interest in a particular topic

A great article by Paul Graham:

“When you look at the lives of people who’ve done great work, you see a consistent pattern. They often begin with a bus ticket collector’s obsessive interest in something that would have seemed pointless to most of their contemporaries. One of the most striking features of Darwin’s book about his voyage on the Beagle is the sheer depth of his interest in natural history. His curiosity seems infinite. Ditto for Ramanujan, sitting by the hour working out on his slate what happens to series.”

“The paths that lead to new ideas tend to look unpromising. If they looked promising, other people would already have explored them. How do the people who do great work discover these paths that others overlook? The popular story is that they simply have better vision: because they’re so talented, they see paths that others miss. But if you look at the way great discoveries are made, that’s not what happens. Darwin didn’t pay closer attention to individual species than other people because he saw that this would lead to great discoveries, and they didn’t. He was just really, really interested in such things.”

The Bus Ticket Theory of Genius