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Our minds are petty, envious, acquisitive, fearful, whether we admit it or not. Now, what makes the mind petty? Surely, the mind is narrow, limited, shallow, petty, as long as it is acquisitive. It may give up worldly things and become acquisitive in the pursuit of knowledge, wisdom, but it is still petty because in acquiring, it develops the will to achieve, to gain, and this very will to achieve constitutes pettiness.
As One Is
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Think about how much energy and time go into trying to be someone or something you’re not. How much further along would you be if you put that same effort into being yourself? When you’re confident in who you are, when you can stop worrying about what others think and finally decide what you think, you’ll understand the relief and satisfaction of feeling those ghosts become a part of you. Possibly the best part of you.
Yale had a kind of hierarchy of cool. Family money was cool, especially if great grandpa had done the dirty work of earning it. Athletic ability was cool. Success with women was cool. Academic success, especially if you needed to “grind” to earn it, was not very cool at all. The idea that it was ungentlemanly to excel academically was captured in the phrase “the gentleman’s C.”
The Stoic Capitalist
Robert Rosenkranz
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