1. Your Sixth Sense<ul><li>Your sixth sense is really your intuition.</li><li>When you get a gut feeling about something and learn how to use this to your advantage.</li></ul>2. Your Subconscious Mind<ul><li>Most people are unaware of the power of the subconscious mind.</li><li>It has the potential to get you what you want in life.</li></ul>3. Persistence<ul><li>One thing lacking in many people today is persistence.</li><li>This attribute you must have in order to become successful.</li><li>Persistence is the direct result of habit.</li></ul>

10 Fundamental Lessons From The Book "Think And Grow Rich" - Napoleon Hill (1/3)

4. Mastermind Group<ul><li>A mastermind group is what all of the top CEOs and power players in the world today use to attain their goals.</li><li>It’s important to choose members that keep you in check and take it seriously.</li></ul>5. Imagination<ul><li>Your imagination has the power to create the life you want.</li><li>So no matter how many times you have failed in the past.</li><li>You can go to the workshop of your mind and create whatever it is you want out of life.</li></ul>6. Decision<ul><li>When you lack a decision it can contribute to being a big factor in failure.</li><li>Hill states that a quick decision is always better than indecision.</li></ul>

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7. Auto Suggestion<ul><li>Using autosuggestion is the ability to focus your mind on your burning desire.</li><li>So that your subconscious mind accepts it as fact.</li></ul>8. Desire<ul><li>You need a desire for something in order to go after it.</li><li>Whatever the mind can conceive and believe the mind can achieve.</li></ul>9. Specialized Knowledge<ul><li>Focus on the knowledge that will make your desires come true so that you can obtain success.</li></ul>10. Faith<ul><li>Faith can give you the ability to create the impossible.</li><li>When you have faith it is the expectation of things hoped for.</li></ul>

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10 Fundamental Lessons From The Book "Think And Grow Rich" - Napoleon Hill

Think and Grow Rich has been called the "Granddaddy of All Motivational Literature." It was the first book to boldly ask, "What makes a winner?" The man who asked and listened for the answer, Napoleon Hill, is now counted in the top ranks of the world's winners himself. The most famous of all teachers of success spent "a fortune and the better part of a lifetime of effort" to produce the "Law of Success" philosophy that forms the basis of his books and that is so powerfully summarized in this one. In the original Think and Grow Rich, published in 1937, Hill draws on stories of Andrew Carnegie, Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, and other millionaires of his generation to illustrate his principles. In the updated version, Arthur R. Pell, Ph.D., a nationally known author, lecturer, and consultant in human resources management and an expert in applying Hill's thought, deftly interweaves anecdotes of how contemporary millionaires and billionaires, such as Bill Gates, Mary Kay Ash, Dave Thomas, and Sir John Templeton, achieved their wealth. Outmoded or arcane terminology and examples are faithfully refreshed to preclude any stumbling blocks to a new generation of readers.

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Ever wondered how life would be if we could condition our minds to Think and Grow Rich? Author Napoleon Hill claims to have based this book on twenty years of rigorous research on the lives of those who had amassed great wealth and made a fortune. Observing their habits, their ways of working and the principles they followed, Hill put together laws and philosophies that can be practiced in everyday life to achieve all-round success. The narrative is rich with stories and anecdotes, which not only inspire, but also show a way forward to take action. After all, riches are not just material, but also pertaining to the mind, body and spirit.  Having sold more than fifteen million copies across the world, this book remains the most read self-improvement book of all times!

Oliver Napoleon Hill was an American self-help author. He is best known for his book Think and Grow Rich, which is among the best-selling self-help books of all time. Hill's works insisted that fervid expectations are essential to improving one's life.

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Have a Will to Succeed, have a Vision, have a clear understanding of what drives you, what sparks you, what do you imagine when you look at the stars, what do you imagine when you see someone on the road, what do you imagine when you look at your Surroundings. Combine all these ideas and you may land upon a Dream of yours, a burning Desire.Then incoprate the fact that you are ready to Achieve it and also understand why you are worthy of it. And you would find a Will to Succeed.

A Will To Succeed 

Once you have a WILL to SUCCEED decide on what steps or what qualities you need to get to reach there, make a action plan, and execute onto it daily."Discipline makes the undoable doable"

Extreme Discipline 

Incorporating the above qualities makes you a Unique person but a person without Focus cannot achieve the Greatness found within a Man.So, black out everything else which doesn't contribute towards your dream, once this step is achieved successfully, a man has come a infinite steps near to his goal.

Laser Like Focus

Those who see the Invisible do the Impossible

How many times have you solved a problem by running away from it? Probably: Zero; but what if you see a problem directly in the eye without any fear? You might solve it in lesser time.But, in the long run you would become a Great problem solver, but not only that, you would become a man who converts Challenges into Opportunities. That is what the world Requires.

Being A Good Problem Solver

See your life as a House, you lay the bricks to make it, however a lot of people see Destiny and Fate as the factors related to this brick laying process, but this is not true, the Real Factors include: Hard Work, Determination, Grit, Focus, etc; Yes, the soil might be different for each one, but the bricks remain in your hands. Use them wisely.

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They say Life is a Long Road with a lot of Passengers , I say make your Own Path and travel with the Voyagers

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As a quick stroll on social media reveals, most people love showing that they are good. Whether by expressing compassion for disaster victims, sharing a post to support a social movement, or denouncing a celebrity’s racist comment, many people are eager to broadcast their high moral standing.

Social Media Helpfulness

Critics sometimes dismiss these acts as mere “virtue signaling”. As the British journalist James Bartholomew (who popularised the term in a magazine article in 2015) remarks, virtue signallers enjoy the privilege of feeling better about themselves by doing very little.

Virtue Signaling

Unlike the kind of helping where you have to do something – help an old lady cross the street, volunteer to give meals to the dispossessed, go door-to-door to fundraise for a cause – virtue signalling often consists of completely costless actions, such as changing your profile picture or saying you don’t like a politician’s stance on immigration. Bartholomew complains that “saying the right things violently on Twitter is much easier than real kindness”.

Help Don’t Cost A Thing

In everyday discourse, the people who accuse others of virtue signaling are often not interested in doing real moral analysis – mostly, they want to discredit their political opponents (“My allies are heroically rallying for a just cause, people on the other side are virtue signaling”). It might be more illuminating to look at what science says on the subject.

Virtue Signaling As A Slur 

Over the past few decades, scientists in a variety of fields have developed sophisticated analyses of signaling as a general phenomenon – how humans (and other animals) send signals designed to convey information to other individuals. The insights of signaling theory have had a huge impact on biology and the social sciences. They also tell us that virtue signaling is more nuanced and more interesting than the picture painted by conventional wisdom and political rhetoric. As it turns out, there are bad and good things about virtue signalling – but probably not for the reasons we think.

Virtue Signaling As Animal Behavior 

Why do we scold virtue signalers for having it easy? The urge to dismiss someone’s actions because they took no effort is powerful. But does it not make more sense to focus on what that action actually achieves? Why do we often focus on the costs people pay rather than how effective they are at making the world better?Why do we have the strong emotions we have about virtue signaling, and is it actually good or bad?

Why Do We Feel So Strong About Virtue Signaling?

A few decades ago, biologists and economists struggled with similar questions.Why are peahens so attracted by the peacocks with the most extravagant tails – which are very costly to maintain but otherwise seemingly useless?Why do employers care that you put yourself hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt to get an Ivy League degree in sociology with no obvious relevance to the job?

Obvious Cost With No Obvious Benefit

In the 1970s, the zoologist Amotz Zahavi and the economist Michael Spence offered a provocative answer. They argued that the cost paid by the peacock (or the college graduate) is the whole point. Their argument is a bit subtle, so it is worth carefully looking at how it works. Communication is difficult because individuals have incentives to lie. Employers are looking for certain qualities (intelligence, conscientiousness, ambition) in their employees. They could ask the people they interview if they are intelligent and conscientious, but why wouldn’t the job candidates simply lie?

Biology, Economics And Lies

Instead, employers select their employees on the basis of signals that are difficult to fake, such as university degrees. In general, having the qualities that employers value makes it easier to get a degree. People who do not have the right mix of intelligence, conscientiousness and ambition will find college more difficult, and either drop out or spend much more time completing their studies. People who anticipate that getting a degree would be too costly for them will opt out.

Talk Is Cheap; Signals Speak Volumes

So, in principle, even if nothing you had learnt was relevant to the job you want, completing the degree still sends a valuable signal to potential employers: you are the kind of person for whom this high-effort achievement is easy enough. Because it sends a valuable signal, it is in your interest to get a degree, and in the employer’s interest to hire you on its basis.

If Only For The Signal

A similar argument applies in the biological domain, but with natural selection in the driver’s seat. Growing an extravagant tail is moderately costly for a healthy peacock – but a diseased bird would put its life at risk if he spent that much energy growing the ornament. Therefore, only the peacocks in good enough condition can afford to grow an elaborate tail. As such, natural selection favours peahens who prefer peacocks with a long tail, because these peahens mate with healthy males, and get healthy offspring as a result.

Signaling Is Evidence And Testimony

Costly signals – signals that are honest because of the fact that they are costly – are ubiquitous. Why do people give flowers to their romantic interests, or take them to overpriced restaurants? Probably because these acts are costly: were the suitor not interested in a long-term relationship, he would have little incentive to invest such effort. His gifts function not because roses are particularly useful items, but because they are a costly signal of his commitment.

Costly Signals And Honesty

Here is why this matters for virtue signalling. Dishonesty is a major problem in the moral domain. People want to appear good, because it wins them friends and social status. Our moral sense evolved because people who convince others of their moral qualities reap such social benefits. But what prevents someone from pretending to be a good person, reaping all the social benefits, and not following through?

Are You Reaping Or Ripping Off? 

Throughout human evolution, being able to discriminate true allies (who stick with you no matter what) from fair-weather friends (who abandon you when you fall ill) could make the difference between life and death. As such, humans are obsessed with moral hypocrisy. We carefully scrutinise potential romantic partners, friends or team members for signs that they’re not only in it for the money. And since – per the logic of costly signalling – the costs that people are willing to pay are a reliable signal of their commitment, we pay extra attention to these costs when we evaluate other people.

Signals And Full, To-The-End Commitment

Social psychologists have found that, when we see someone perform an altruistic act, we’re suspicious that they’re really being altruistic if they derive some benefit from the act. Clever cognitive psychology experiments even show that we categorise other people on the basis of the costs they are willing to pay to benefit their group – but not on the basis of the amount of benefits they actually provide.

Costs Are Good. Even If They Are Useless. 

This is probably why we find virtue signalers irritating. They are doing things that might gain them social status – the approval of society, a place on the right side of history. But are they actually committed to the causes they support? Or are they just interested in the social benefits? When they are not paying any meaningful costs, virtue signallers activate the alarm bells that millions of years of evolution put in our heads to protect us from fair-weather friends and other moral hypocrites.

But Costs Must Be Really Costly To Be Good

So let’s concede that some virtue signalling is fake; but does that mean it is bad? Here it is useful to take a step back from our default mode of thinking. Evolution designed our brain to make us good at small-scale interaction, but we not very good (or especially concerned) at evaluating the large-scale social effects of things. As such, it is easy for a polemist to throw discredit on someone who virtue-signals by pointing out that there is no guarantee that the virtue-signaler actually shares your moral values. But is this the right yardstick by which to evaluate these signals?

What If The Costs Are Meaningless But The Benefits Meaningful?

Life is rife with coordination problems. Consider passing someone on the street going the other way. You both have a shared incentive to coordinate about which side of the street to walk on, so that you don’t bump into each other. Even though the other person is a complete stranger, there is no particular reason she would try to deceive you. In such circumstances, people send signals (eg. move suddenly and flamboyantly toward one side) to successfully coordinate. Mathematical models show that these costless signals can be crucial in helping people solve otherwise thorny coordination problems.

Costless Signals: Greenlighting

Coordination is crucial in the moral domain too. Imagine you live in a society that practises slavery, and you think you are the only one morally revulsed by it. Should you speak out about your concerns? If you think that everyone else is indifferent, you might be afraid that others will think you are weird, that the people benefiting from the system will punish you, and that you stand no chance to make a difference anyway.

Costless Signals: Spotlighting

The paradox is that, even if many people are in this situation – everyone is concerned but convinced that no one else is – they might fail to act, despite having the majority opinion. But speaking up can start a chain reaction. The more individuals raise their voice to denounce what they see as a moral problem, the more the initially silent people realise they are not alone and speak up in turn.

Costless Signals: Floodlighting

Loud and public signals are especially effective as establishing common knowledge of a moral norm ­making sure that everyone knows about the moral norm, that everyone else knows that everyone knows about the moral norm, that everyone knows that everyone knows that everyone knows (and so on). Psychology experiments have demonstrated that common knowledge is a powerful determinant of social behaviour: people are much more likely to coordinate on a joint action when everyone knows that everyone knows that working together will generate good outcomes.

Public Signals, Common Knowledge And Coordination

In addition to fostering coordination, common knowledge prevents people from hiding behind the veil of plausible deniability. To get away with selfish behaviour, we often pretend to ignore its consequences. If you can plausibly say that you didn’t know about the poor working conditions of people in sweatshops, people will judge you less harshly for buying cheap clothes. But if many people virtue signal by campaigning for better workers’ rights, the issue rises to common awareness – and, when everyone can expect everyone to know, it is harder for you to claim ignorance as a defence.

Public Signals, Common Knowledge And Plausible Deniability

Viewing morality as a coordination game suggests that public opinion can undergo rapid shifts, as society coordinates on new moral norms. And this is indeed what we observe: public opinion on a variety of subjects – such as racism and gay rights – has shifted dramatically in a progressive direction over the past few decades (sometimes within a few weeks).

Morality As A Coordination Game

In sum, virtue signalling can be a powerful force for social change, by creating common knowledge around a moral issue that people would otherwise ignore (out of complacency or selfishness).Importantly, this works even when there is no guarantee the people who are sending the signals are particularly virtuous or committed to the cause.

Virtue Signaling Re-Coordinates Society

Mark and Bob both made a $1,000 donation to a charity. Before making his donation, Mark read extensively about different charities, seeking the one with the best ROI – the charity that runs programmes with the most impact on people’s lives per dollar invested. In the process of his search, Mark would often read about an organisation that does great things, but then drop it from consideration because there was no evidence that it would use his money in the best possible way. He finally settled on a charity that provides a treatment against parasitic worms that plague many people in Africa.

The Tale Of Mark And Bob - Mark

Bob was watching TV one evening when he saw an ad for a charity that gives teddy bears to convalescent children in hospitals. Bob was overwhelmed by emotion at the plight of the children, and immediately made a transfer to the charity.

The Tale Of Mark And Bob - Bob

Mark’s donation will make a much greater impact on people’s lives. But he comes off as cold and calculating, and we can’t repress a nagging doubt about the kind of person he is. Would he still have donated if he had found that none of the organisations he read about was effective enough? Bob by contrast leaves no doubt about his good nature: he spontaneously gave his money without the slightest care about crude materialistic concerns such as economic efficiency.

The Calculating And The Spontaneous

The tale of Mark and Bob illustrates one of the bleak insights of signalling theory: the concrete impact of an altruistic act (how much it actually helps other people) is often dissociated from the signal it sends about what kind of person we are. This means that, to convince people that you are good, the most persuasive signal you can send is often not what will actually produce the most good.

Mixed Signals And Concrete Impact

Why might people be motivated to send extreme signals of their commitment to a cause? The answer lies in the fact that, when we send virtue signals, many of the things we seek – such as friends and social status – are rival goods. The people you want to be friends with can have only so many friends, so you want to convince them that they should pick you. The social groups you belong to can have only so many leaders and, in order to gain influence, it helps to show that you are more committed to the group’s ideology than is the average member.

Extreme Signals And Rival Goods

When individuals send signals to try to convince others that they are better than average, the result is often what signalling theorists call a ‘runaway’: an arms race toward more and more extreme signals. If peahens want to mate with the peacocks whose tails are more extravagant than the average peacock, natural selection favours peacocks with increasingly more extravagant tails over successive generations. If everyone has a high-school diploma, students need to start getting bachelor’s degrees in order to become distinctive in the eyes of employers.

The “Better Than Average” Arms Race 

In the moral domain, runaway signaling happens when people try to elevate their moral status by doing and believing things that not everyone else does. For example, everyone is opposed to killing humans: saying that you think people should not kill each other does not set you apart from others. But not everyone is opposed to eating animals, so being vegetarian or vegan can effectively increase your moral standing.

The “Not Your Average” Arms Race 

When we see someone virtue signalling, we often have strong reactions – sometimes admiration, sometimes annoyance or contempt. But these intuitions are the product of psychological mechanisms that are designed to help us evaluate if that person could be a good friend or a good ally, not to help us evaluate whether the person’s action will have a positive impact on the world. The emerging science of signaling shows that these things can often come apart. Keeping this insight in mind is essential as we navigate an increasingly noisy world.

A New Noise: The Noise Of Virtue

“Here we go again, with your mixed signals and my second thoughts.”

Proclaiming one’s own goodness is deeply annoying. Yet signalling theory explains why it’s a peculiarly powerful manoeuvre

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Why Virtue Signaling Is Not (Just) A Vice, But An Evolved Tool

When you think of solar energy, you probably picture the photovoltaic panels that capture sunlight to be converted to electricity. But there are other ways to harness the sun’s power. One method attracting growing interest is called concentrated solar-thermal power, or CSP, which uses mirrors to reflect and concentrate the sun’s energy.

Concentrated solar-thermal power, which uses mirrors to reflect and concentrate the sun’s energy, isn’t ready for prime time...yet

Concentrated solar-thermal power, which uses mirrors to reflect and concentrate the sun’s energy, isn’t ready for prime time...yet.

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Lenny Rachitsky, a popular PdM on Twitter, asked 25 VCs for growth rates. His findings: <ul><li>In the early stages, investors don’t care about month-over-month growth. MoM starts to matter when revenue nears $1M ARR.</li><li>Good revenue growth is 15-25% MoM</li><li>For B2B it is considered good to get to $500k in ARR 6mo after going live.</li><li>Revenue can be overlooked if there is strong retention or engagement.</li><li>Consumer businesses have to show retention more than revenue. "Over 50% DAU/MAU or 50% D30 retention is excellent."</li></ul>

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What great growth looks like in the eyes of the VCs

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<ul><li>Every single thing that you learn has fundementals make sure you know them </li><li>Also if you skip the fundementals you will end up having to go back and retrace your steps to learn things </li></ul>

1 You Skip The Fundent

<ul><li>Don’t get super into something </li><li>Pace yourself daily don’t do so much that you burn out </li><li>Make sure you notice when your levels of intrests drops </li></ul>

2. Too Much In One Take 

<ul><li>Put things into practice that is a fundemental way of learning </li><li>by putting things into practice you prove that you understand and know the information </li></ul>

3. You Don’t Put It Into Practice 

<ul><li>How do you know if your learning or getting better </li><li>Without a good benchmark it is very hard to know if your improving and by how much</li></ul>

4. You Don’t Have A Good Benchmark

<ul><li>You can go fast when you master the fundementals </li></ul>

5. You Go To Fast 

<ul><li>There are shortcuts in this world but they are expensive you must be willingly to pay the price </li><li>When your starting out there are no shortcuts </li></ul>

6. You Look For Shortcuts 

<ol><li>Most people quit when it’s starting to get hard </li><li>you move past this by finding your reason why you start </li></ol>

You Don’t Go Past The Honeymoon Period 

<ul><li>It’s very hard to accept the fact that you suck </li><li>Thats a normal part of progress everyone stinks at the beginning </li><li>The more you keep at it the more you get better </li></ul>

8.You Can’t Accept You Suck 

<ul><li>If you ever delete your bad work you will not get the chance of learning from it </li><li>learning from your mistakes are how you get better </li></ul>

9.You Don’t Keep Your Mistakes 

<ul><li>You will never be 100% ready at some point you have to jump in </li><li>feedback is good just don’t wait too long to get it when you wait too long </li></ul>

10. You Wait Until It’s Ready 

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I am a big fan of learning here are 10 mistakes that most people make I was making about 5 of them 😅

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00:00 - Intro
00:18 - You skip the fundamentals
01:37 - Too much in one take. 
03:05 - You don’t put it into practice. 
04:15 - You don’t have a good benchmark. 
05:17 - You go too fast. 
05:46 - You look for shortcuts. 
06:33 - You don’t go past the honeymoon. 
07:58 - You can’t accept you suck
08:45 - You don’t keep your mistake.
09:45 - You wait until it’s ready. 

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10 HUGE Mistakes You Make In Learning

Lucius Annaeus Seneca and also known simply as Seneca, was a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist, and the advisor of the Rome's King Neron.The works written about stoicism are known as often present the school of thought in hypothetical terms, however, Seneca's this essay focuses on constructive and practicable advice.

Quotes From "On the Firmness of the Wise Man"

"There is nothing on earth so sacred as not to be liable to sacrilege; yet holy things exist on high none the less because there are men who strike at a greatness which is far above themselves, though with no hope of reaching it. The invulnerable is not that which is never struck, but that which is never wounded."

That such a wise man is invulnerable against all injury;it matters not,therefore,how many darts be hurled at him,since he can be pierced by none of them.Just as the hardness of some stones is impervious to steel,and adamant can neither be cut,broken,or ground,but blunts all instruments used upon it;just as some things can't be destroyed by fire,but when encircled by flame still retain their hardness and shape;just as some tall projecting cliffs break the waves of the sea,and though lashed by them through many centuries,yet show no traces of their rage; even so the mind of the wise man is firm

"... and fortune can take nothing away save what she gave. Now fortune does not give virtue; therefore, she does not take it away. Virtue is free, inviolable, not to be moved, not to be shaken, and so hardened against misfortunes that she cannot be bent, let alone overcome by them. She looks unfalteringly on while tortures are being prepared for her; she makes no change of countenance, whether misery or pleasure be offered to her. The wise man therefore can lose nothing of whose loss he will be sensible, for he is the property of virtue alone, from whom he never can be taken away."

"Under the direction of that destroyer of so many cities, walls may be shaken by the stroke of the ram, lofty towers may be suddenly brought low by galleries and hidden mines, and mounds arise so high as to rival the highest citadel, yet that no siege engines can be discovered which can shake a well-established mind."

" I see rich men who have lost their estates; lustful men who have lost their loves, the courtesans whom they cherished at the cost of much shame; ambitious men who have lost the senate, the law courts, the places set apart for the public display of men's vices; usurers who have lost their account-books, in which avarice vainly enjoyed an unreal wealth; but I possess everything whole and uninjured. See then, Serenus, that the perfect man, full of human and divine virtues, can lose nothing; his goods are surrounded by strong and impassable walls."

"He therefore who is affected by insult shows that he possesses neither sense nor trustfulness; for he considers it certain that he is scorned, and this vexation affects him with a certain sense of degradation, as he effaces himself and takes a lower room; whereas the wise man is scorned by no one, for he knows his own greatness, gives himself to understand that he allows no one to have such power over him, and as for all of what I should not so much call distress as uneasiness of mind, he does not overcome it, but never so much as feels."

"He will not rise in his own esteem if a beggar pays his court to him, and he will not think it an affront if one of the dregs of the people does not return his greeting. So also he will not admire himself even if many rich men admire him; for he knows that they differ in no respect from beggars—nay, are even more wretched than they; for beggars want but a little, whereas rich men want a great deal."

"He will not, then, be moved by an insult from any man for though all men differ one from another, yet the wise man regards them all as alike on account of their equal folly; for should he once lower himself to the point of being affected by either injury or insult, he could never feel safe afterwards, and safety is the especial advantage of the wise man, and he will not be guilty of showing respect to the man who has done him an injury by admitting that he has received one, because it necessarily follows that he who is disquieted at any one's scorn would value that person's admiration."

"Epicurus says that injuries may be endured by the wise man, we say that they do not exist for him...We do not deny that it is an unpleasant thing to be beaten or struck, or to lose one of our limbs, but we say that none of these things are injuries...You ask what difference there is between them? All that there is between two very brave gladiators, one of whom conceals his wound and holds his ground, while the other turns round to the shouting populace, gives them to understand that his wound is nothing, and does not permit them to interfere on his behalf."

"...since those who are most eager to offer affronts are least able to endure them"

" As for insults, offensive language, marks of disgrace, and such-like disfigurements, he ought to bear them as he would bear the shouts of the enemy, and darts or stones flung from a distance, which rattle upon his helmet without causing a wound; while he should look upon injuries as wounds, some received on his armour and others on his body, which he endures without falling or even leaving his place in the ranks. Even though you be hard pressed and violently attacked by the enemy, still it is base to give way; hold the post assigned to you by nature."

In this book; There are so many thoughts that can guide us about life, virtue and how to have a strong character. As a beginner philosophy reader, i have compiled some ideas that i think can shape human life with my own references.

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The best thing about our mind is whatever we put into it gets in but the worst thing is it's hard to clean it. While you are working for success, it's essential to keep our mind cool, calm and inspired. In order to control the world firstly we have to control ourselves and that's not as easy as we think. The easiest way to do that is to acquire continuous knowledge and learn new things daily while avoiding negative thoughts & Overthinking.

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Discipline will always be the key ingredient for a successful life and we can't deny the fact that it's necessary to have a disciplined life. Disciplined life seems very interesting but it's very hard to manage it. It's a complete chain of our courage & mental toughness. Our success needs a disciplined life and the day you get it the day you will be successful.

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Always ready to help others because helping is actually caring. Help others when they are in need without any demand don't expect from others. Just help everyone who is needed.

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