credo (n): a statement of the beliefs or aims which guide someone's actions.
- Personalities are not consistent. Situations are. (Invisibilia.) Is your environment conducive to growth?
- Growth only occurs in a state of discomfort
- Stoicism: live a virtuous life
- Aretes / virtues:
- Wisdom
- Justice
- Courage
- Self-control / temperance
- Memento mori
- It is not things that disturb us, but our judgements about those things.
- “The man that suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than it is necessary.”
- “For after all, the best thing one can do when it is raining is… let it rain.”
- It's either a "HELL YES" or a "HELL NO". Are you running away from something or are you running towards something?
- Be the ideal you.
- You've got to earn things to both get them and to keep them. Make sure you remember the latter
- "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." - Aristotle
- You have control over process, not outcome
- You can learn something from everyone.
- Don't artificially limit your personality to the character you may be for different groups of people
- People contain multitudes. Let them have their own Church of Ideas
- Enjoy the journey that is life. Pay attention to it, instead of keeping your head down and waiting for it to be over with.
- Yin and yang. Opposites are often both important. (Need to find examples.)
- Make the right decision. Not the easy one, not the one that leads to more validation or prestige. The one that aligns with your values the most.
- Aristotle's path of the golden middle way / mean
- Think of win-win's instead of a vs. b
- Ask not what successes you want, but what pains you're willing to bear
- We do what's easiest, not what makes us happiest
- Creativity is stimulated by interdisciplinary study
- It's easy to be virtuous when life is easy on you - a man's true personality shows in suffering
- Have you convinced yourself beyond repair?
- Health - nothing in life is good when you're feeling ill.
- Growth - don't stagnate.