To test if you are worrying too much about looking good, observe how you feel when you find out you've made a mistake or don't know something.

When you're centered, your emotions are not hijacking you.

In China anything less than 6% growth is a recession meaning that it also causes financial problems and it's disruptive and it's a problem.

I notice a difference from the moment I meditate.

I could see that making judgments about people so that they are tried and sentenced in your head, without asking them for their perspective, is both unethical and unproductive. So I learned to love real integrity and to despise the lack of it.

I found that whenever I encountered a situation, rather than just reacting to it, it was tremendously useful to think carefully about how I should react to it and other situations like it. Besides providing me with more thoughtful responses in each of these cases, approaching things this way provided me and others with guidance on how to deal with similar situations when they came up in the future.

Pull in your belt, spend less, and reduce debt.