A piece of wisdom from
March 9, 2024 · Saturday
The quote
“Keep a cookie jar. Every time you do something hard you did not think you could do, put it in the jar. On the days the new thing seems impossible, reach into the jar. The hand that wrote the cookies is the same hand reaching now.”
— David Goggins · Mental Toughness
The concept
Fear
Almost every adult is constrained by two or three fears they have never written down. This page is the writing-down.
Fear is not the enemy. Unexamined fear is. Most adult decisions are not driven by what people want, they are driven by what people are afraid of, often without knowing it. This page is built around one principle: every module returns a spec…
A practice for today
Walk one slow block today and observe the lesson of Fear. Almost every adult is constrained by two or three fears they have never written down. This page is the writing-down.
From the Bhagavad Gita
Verse 6.5
उद्धरेदात्मनात्मानं नात्मानमवसादयेत्। आत्मैव ह्यात्मनो बन्धुरात्मैव रिपुरात्मनः॥
“Lift yourself by yourself; do not let yourself sink. For the self alone is the friend of the self, and the self alone is the enemy of the self.”
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