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Seneca writes that unbruised prosperity is weak and easy to defeat in the ring, but "a man who has been at constant feud with misfortunes acquires a skin calloused by suffering." This man, he says, fights all the way to the ground and never gives up.
That's what Epictetus means too. What kind of boxer are you if you leave because you get hit? That's the nature of the sport! Is that going to stop you from continuing?
The Daily Stoic
Ryan Holiday, Stephen Hanselman
What happened in Rosenthal's and Grant's experiments is no different from what happened when Johnson & Johnson gathered to challenge the Credo. They created a high-purpose environment, flooded the zone with signals that linked the present effort to a meaningful future, and used a single story to orient motivation the way that a magnetic field orients a compass needle to true north: This is why we work. Here is where you should put your energy.
The Culture Code
Daniel Coyle
Control what you can by being attentive to fees, taxes, and efficiency in expenditures. Financial products are often an exception to the rule that the more you pay for a service, the better its quality.
The Missing Billionaires
Victor Haghani and James White
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