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Betrayal
Insights “The recipe for great work is: very exacting taste, plus the ability to gratify it.” — Paul Graham “Remember, if you never do anything differently,
Think Like A Poet
Insights “I keep on making what I can’t do yet in order to learn to be able to do it.” – Vincent van Gogh “If
Leading…yourself
Insights “In your actions, don’t procrastinate. In your conversations, don’t confuse. In your thoughts, don’t wander. In your soul, don’t be passive or aggressive. In
Always Forward
Insights If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when
Obsess over the Basics
3 Insights “Adversity often leads people to depend more on one another” – Sebastian Junger, Tribe “Arete is the way that you do stuff. It’s
Preparations for Treason
3 Insights “In both everyday and military events, your mind should not change in the least, but should be broad and straightforward, neither drawn too
A Philosophy of Life
3 Insights “The crowd admires common foolishness and places no stock in excellent counsel.” – Baltasar Gracian “Success in any undertaking comes of patient, unremitting
Practical Virtues
3 Insights “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress
Martial Excellence
3 Insights “The pankratiast’s body should be robust like the boxer’s and supple like the wrestler’s.” – Philostratus, Gymnastikos “Do you get up early? I
Nothing like Easy
3 Insights “I doubt whether modern man experiences more distress than his ancestors. It’s not that people suffer more stress today. It’s just that they
Sacrifice & Crusades
3 Insights “Power is not something that is acquired, seized or shared, something that one holds on to or allows to slip away. Power is
Lead Like a Roman, Parent Like a Pro
3 Insights “True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, in writing what deserves to be read, and in so living as to
Mongols, the legacy of expansion
3 Insights “The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, is in its loyalty to each other.” — Genghis Khan “I care
Stories from War & Benjamin Franklin’s Early Struggles
3 Insights “The years teach much which the days never knew.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson “The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human