Browsing the blog archives for June, 2009
The Practicality of Pessimism
Could defining your fears be more important than defining your goals?
This is a recent 5-minute presentation Tim Ferriss gave at a Google Ignite program.
He discusses the two most effective productivity techniques he has found since 2004, both borrowed from Stoicism.
It includes personal usage examples, as well as several from Seneca and Cato.
The audio is quite low, so you’ll need to up the volume.
No Comments The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
- Anonymous
Failing and making mistakes are stepping stones on your journey to live your passion.
MythBuster Adam Savage describes how failure helped him build or define or discover his character
Create an essay/post on this topic…
Ever since he heard some street musicians outside a Subway station move some 200-odd passerbys to tears, Mark Johnson has been thinking up a way to shine more light on the transformative power of music.
He brings together musicians from around the world — blues singers in a waterlogged New Orleans, chamber groups in Moscow, a South African choir — to collaborate on songs familiar and new, in the effort to foster a new, greater understanding of our commonality.
As part of ‘Playing for Change’, a remix of the popular ‘Stand By Me’ is performed by more than 100 musicians from Tibet to Zimbabwe!
Bonus Feature
Watch Bill Moyers interviews Mark Johnson. Discover the back story of this remarkable documentary about the simple but transformative power of music.
Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
- Groucho Marx
A reminder that life is a journey.
Enjoy your journey.
Get ready to be inspired.
The man who does not work for the love of work, but only for money, is not likely to make money nor find much fun in life.
- Charles M. Schwab
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Jun 15, 2009 
