What is known can't jerk us around unwittingly. Before anything can be resolved, the implicit must be made into the explicit.

You know what’s better than building things up in your imagination? Building things up in real life.

True will is quiet humility, resilience, and flexibility; the other kind of will is weakness disguised by bluster and ambition.

Ordinary people shy away form negative situations, just as they do with failure. They do their best to avoid trouble. What great people do is the opposite. They are their best in these situations. They turn personal tragedy or misfortune - really anything, everything - to their advantage.

The most powerful predictor of what spreads online is anger.

When intelligent people read, they ask themselves a simple question: What do I plan to do with this information?

I run 5 miles every night. It’s where I go to digest my day, hash out the multitude of information that’s been poured into me in the last wild six months or so, and to try and condense it down to some sort of cohesive strategy to live my life by.