JAMES GRAHAM

There are different attitudes needed for excellence, but they depend on the pursuit. Diverse niches require exploration, creativity, and experimentation. But once you focus on a pursuit, you need a mind for efficiency and courage when you face competition.

Attitudes for each are v...

• Long being associated with frivolity, mindless pleasure-seeking, gluttony and danger, hedonism was initially a fairly simple concept in ancient greek philosophy.
• Hedonism at its very core, states that pleasure is in itself a worthwhile pursuit.
• Pleasure i...

The problem is simply that saying “no” to a particular pursuit can be hard. But saying “not right now” works just as well. 

It prevents the pursuit from taking up time, while leaving open the possibility of change later.