“In fact, let’s tune in to what I imagine is happening in Dan’s mind right now.
Jeff’s meditation is too long. What were we thinking? I’m losing my rugged good looks. Bianca always looks perfect—why is that? Maybe I am aging more quickly. What’s that smell? Gas leak!

This is what minds do. They like to run with stuff. It’s actually quite entertaining. The trick with this meditation is to good-naturedly let all that material be the background.”

Excerpt From: Dan Harris. “Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics.”

“People try to get away from it all—to the country, to the beach, to the mountains. You always wish that you could too. Which is idiotic: you can get away from it anytime you like.
By going within.
Nowhere you can go is more peaceful—more free of interruptions—than your own soul. Especially if you have other things to rely on. An instant’s recollection and there it is: complete tranquillity. And by tranquillity I mean a kind of harmony.”

Excerpt From: Marcus Aurelius. “Meditations.”

“There are two main factors that determine when you want to sleep and when you want to be awake. As you read these very words, both factors are powerfully influencing your mind and body. The first factor is a signal beamed out from your internal twenty-four-hour clock located deep within your brain. The clock creates a cycling, day-night rhythm that makes you feel tired or alert at regular times of night and day, respectively. The second factor is a chemical substance that builds up in your brain and creates a “sleep pressure.” The longer you’ve been awake, the more that chemical sleep pressure accumulates, and consequentially, the sleepier you feel. ”

Excerpt From: Matthew Walker. “Why We Sleep.”

“Long before Henry David Thoreau exclaimed “simplicity, simplicity, simplicity,” Marcus Aurelius asked: “You see how few things you have to do to live a satisfying and reverent life?” Digital minimalism simply adapts this classical insight to the role of technology in our modern lives. ”

Excerpt From: Cal Newport;. “Digital Minimalism.”

“Chopra was infinitely more fun to hang out with than Tolle—I preferred Deepak’s rascally What Makes Sammy Run? style to the German’s otherworldly diffidence—but I left the experience more confused, not less. Eckhart was befuddling because, while I believed he was sincere, I couldn’t tell if he was sane. With Deepak it was the opposite; I believed he was sane, but I couldn’t tell if he was sincere. ”

Excerpt From: Harris, Dan. “10% Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help That Actually Works–A True Story.”

“The money problems of the poor are:
1. Not having enough money.
2. Using credit to supplement money shortages.
3. The rising cost of living.
4. Paying more in taxes the more they make.
5. Fear of emergencies.
6. Bad financial advice.
7. Not enough retirement money.

The money problems of the rich are:
1. Having too much money.
2. Needing to keep it safe and invested.
3. Not knowing whether people like them, or their money.
4. Needing smarter financial advisors.
5. Raising spoiled kids.
6. Estate and inheritance planning.
7. Excessive government taxes.”

Excerpt From: Robert T. Kiyosaki. “Rich Dad’s Increase Your Financial IQ: Get Smarter with Your Money.”

PHILOSOPHER: There is no change in what I say. The world is simple and life is simple, too.
YOUTH: How? Anyone can see that it’s a chaotic mass of contradictions.
PHILOSOPHER: That is not because the world is complicated. It’s because you are making the world complicated.
YOUTH: I am?
PHILOSOPHER: None of us live in an objective world, but instead in a subjective world that we ourselves have given meaning to. The world you see is different from the one I see, and it’s impossible to share your world with anyone else. ”

Excerpt From: Ichiro Kishimi. “The Courage to Be Disliked.”

“I’VE WORKED FOR the same company for forty-five years: twenty-two of them at ABC, another twenty-three at Disney, after Disney acquired ABC in 1995. For the past fourteen years, I’ve had the enviable task of being the sixth CEO to run the company since Walt founded it in 1923.
There have been difficult, even tragic, days. But for me this has also been, to steal from a phrase, the happiest job on earth.”

Excerpt From: Robert Iger;. “The Ride of a Lifetime.”

“They violate the principle that Harvard Business School professor Amy Edmondson calls “psychological safety.” In her 2018 book, The Fearless Organization, she explains that if you want to encourage innovation, you should develop an environment where people feel safe to dream, speak up, and take risks. The safer the atmosphere, the more innovation you will have. Apparently, no one at Netflix read that book. Seek to hire the very best and then inject fear into your talented employees by telling them they’ll be thrown back out onto the “generous severance” scrap heap if they don’t excel? This sounded like a surefire way to kill any hope of innovation.”

Excerpt From: Reed Hastings. “No Rules Rules.”

“Maybe he didn’t hear me so I repeated the question again. “Sir, what color was the blue bag?”
More laughter. What is going on? Why are people laughing in a death penalty trial? Before I could ask the dumbest question in the history of the English-speaking world a third time, the judge took mercy and said, “Mr. District Attorney, I think the jury knows what color the blue bag was now! You can move on.”

Excerpt From: Trey Gowdy. “Doesn’t Hurt to Ask.”