NUGGETS OF WISDOM - 1395

 

• ·       People respond better to humility and respect, even amid chaos. Good manners and emotional control never make a situation worse.

  ·       Money doesn’t buy you happiness, but it can keep you from being miserable.

  ·       If you walk the same path as everyone around you, you'll end up at the same destination. However, if your trajectory is just one degree different from everyone else's, you’ll eventually be in completely different places.

  ·       You make your own luck, but paradoxically, only when acting in a way that reduces the need for luck. In this way, creating luck comes from strategic decisions that reduce uncertainty. The old saying, "The harder I work, the luckier I get," perfectly encapsulates this.

  ·       When you get in the ring, you're not afraid of losing, getting hurt, or even dying. You're afraid of the other man dancing over your corpse while the body is still fresh. If his celebration of your failure is a deep stab wound to your pride, then the knife twist is the audience’s reaction. In the mind of the fighter, a loss reduces him to nothing.

  ·       Life is not what happens to us. Life is how we perceive what happens to us and around us. How we see those events determines how we'll react to them, and our reactions determine the quality of our lives.

  ·       Whether you're up against oppressive parents, relentless bullies, or the unforgiving grind of life itself, you learn to fight by fighting.

  ·       Hurtful things said and done to me still caused me pain and sadness. I still got angry at the people who did me harm. I couldn't control that, but I could control my behavior towards them.