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    "It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."

    Seneca

    topics:
    • challenge
    • pain
    • stoicism
    • mastery

    "A false path in life is generally something we are attracted to for the wrong reasons- money, fame, attention, and so on. If it is attention we need, we often experience a kind of emptiness inside that we are hoping to fill with the false love of public approval."

    Robert Greene

    topics:
    • emptiness
    • mastery
    • attention

    "..it is essential that you begin with one skill that you can master, and that serves as a foundation for acquiring others. You must avoid at all cost the idea that you can manage learning several skills at a time. You need to develop your powers of concentration, and understand that trying to multi-task will be the death of the process."

    Robert Greene

    topics:
    • learning
    • mastery
    • skills

    "At your birth a seed is planted. That seed is your uniqueness. It wants to grow, transform itself, and flower to its full potential. It has a natural, assertive energy to it. Your Life's Task is to bring that seed to flower, to express your uniqueness through your work."

    Robert Greene

    topics:
    • eudaimonia
    • mastery

    "Too many people believe that everything must be pleasurable in life, which makes them constantly search for distractions and short-circuits the learning process. The pain is a kind of challenge your mind presents- will you lean how to focus and move past the boredom, or like a child will you succumb to the need for immediate pleasure and distraction?"

    Robert Greene

    topics:
    • boredom
    • mastery
    • pleasure