Sushithal

Being kind to strangers is easy. The real work begins with those closest to you.

If you want to be rewarded, you have to be irreplaceable. If you want to be irreplaceable, you have to be unique. If you want to be unique, you have to be authentic. If you want to be authentic, stop listening to everyone and everything else. It’s drowning “you” out.

The first 20 years you measure success with grades, only to realize that the real value is in learning to learn and critical thinking. The second 20 years you measure success by how much money you made, only to realize that how you spend time, and with whom, is most important.

Don’t confine yourself or others to labels.

Facebook admitted this week that they track your location even when you’ve turned off location tracking — and then sell that data to advertisers. Your data is your property. Tech companies should absolutely not be allowed to use it without your permission.

“Let your capital be simplicity and contentment,” Thoreau reminded himself in his journals, and then the only stock-markets you're subject to are the ones inside your heart.

You don’t have time to “keep up” with all the irrelevant ephemera that marketers and manipulators want you to respond to. TV can go unwatched. Articles can remain unread. Trends can fade away unnoticed. Don’t react to things that don’t matter. Make time for your life.

“Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open?” - Rumi

You are richer than Warren Buffett. Would you trade places with an 89 year old billionaire? I am pretty sure he would give up all his wealth to be at your age. All wealth is relative wealth. You are effectively richer than the 3rd-wealthiest person in the world.

Let’s say you are 20. Would you trade places... — with a 80-year-old billionaire? — with a 60-year-old billionaire? — with a 40-year-old billionaire? No, no, and no. That’s how precious time is.

“Sheep don’t bring their owners grass to prove to them how much they’ve eaten, they digest it inwardly and outwardly bring forth milk and wool. So don’t make a show of your philosophical learning to the uninitiated, show them by your actions what you have absorbed.” - Epictetus