The World Motivation
As social animals we humans are very sensitive to our rank and position within any group. We can measure our status by the attention and respect we receive.
“As social animals we humans are very sensitive to our rank and position within any group. We can measure our status by the attention and respect we receive.”
— Robert Greene · Measure
As social animals we humans are very sensitive to our rank and position within any group. We can measure our status by the attention and respect we receive.
Humans cannot avoid trying to influence others. Everything we say or do is examined and interpreted by others for clues as to our intentions.
While still working for others, your goal at some point must be to carve out little areas that you can operate on your own, cultivating entrepreneurial skills.
When you get angry, your options narrow.
What happens if you stick at something long enough, and study it for so long, you have a different kind of intelligence. It's not an intellectual thing. It's almost like an animal intelligence. I call it our form of instinct, almost how a lion knows exactly where its prey is.
Be the measure great or small, let it be honest in every part.
I had had a father whose shoes I could never fill, against whom I would never measure up; yet, I felt no pressure do so.
You have to study the people and the ones that measure up are not always the ones you expect.
I will not support any measure to remove President Trump from office.
Pick up a yardstick to measure your life against anyone else's, and you've just picked up a stick and beaten up your own soul.