The Resilience Factor: 7 Keys to Finding Your Inner Strength and Overcoming Life’s Hurdlesby Karen Reivich and Andrew Shatté, Ph.D. What Real Resilience Feels Like Resilience gets romanticized. We picture grit in a movie montage or a comeback headline. In my life—and probably in yours—it’s not a swelling soundtrack. It’s a Tuesday afternoon, a rough …
The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumphby Ryan Holiday Turning Hardship into a Teacher Some books offer comfort. The Obstacle Is the Way offers a challenge — and a map. Drawing on ancient Stoic philosophy, Ryan Holiday invites us to stop fighting life’s difficulties and start working with them. …
Man’s Search for Meaningby Viktor E. Frankl The Human Need for Meaning Few books pierce the human condition as deeply as Viktor Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning. Written after his survival in Nazi concentration camps, it’s part memoir, part psychology, and entirely an act of witness. Frankl, an Austrian psychiatrist, lost his parents, brother, and …
I love the way Alan Cohen tells the Story of the Golden Buddha in the film “Finding Joe” so check out the video below. The story is based on actual events and the real Golden Buddha is 3 metres tall, weights 5.5 tonnes and is currently housed in a temple in Bangkok, Thailand. It was …
Defeat doesn’t come from failing – it comes from giving up. There’s a great line in one of my favorite movies, “The Edge”, starring Anthony Hopkins. He says: “You know, I once read an interesting book which said that, uh, most people lost in the wilds, they, they die of shame […] “What did I …
Shakespeare may have been right, but it’s not how long the play lasts – it’s how good it is that matters. Imagine today was your final scene – would you expect a standing ovation? As it is with a play, so it is with life—what matters is not how long the acting lasts, but how …
My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not merely bear what is necessary, still less conceal it… but love it. Friedrich Nietzsche
Fear of Other People’s Opinions! It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own Marcus Aurelius – meditations
When challenges come along, don’t shrink back. Get ready to crush it, because it’s time to practice what you’ve been training for. “Welcome present circumstances and accept the things whose time has arrived. Be happy when you find that doctrines you have learned and analyzed are being tested by real events.” epictetus – discourses
This is going to take some sweat to accomplish – but it’ll turn you into Olympic-class material. “The true man is revealed in difficult times. So when trouble comes, think of yourself as a wrestler whom God, like a trainer, has paired with a tough young buck. For what purpose? To turn you into Olympic-class …
