Keep your friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent

There are people that don't need to run towards adversity. They grew up in circumstances where it's forced upon them. Other people lead, pushier lives. So there are all kinds of forms of adversity in the world.

Your work is the single greatest means at your disposal for expressing your social intelligence.

Nobody that I know really likes the feeling of having no power and not being able to influence people. But most of us aren't too conscious of what we are trying to do and get that control and that power so people end up sort of playing all kinds of unconscious manipulative games or they're sort of half aware, they have an idea of a strategy or goal they want to use and they think about it. But then in the heat of the moment, it kind of all flies out the window.

Only your hearts be frolic, for the time Craves that we taste of naught but jouissance.

We are a social animal, power only exists in a social sense, we have to work in groups.

To me, no matter what we do, we all strive for that experience.