11 Important Things I’m Thinking About in 2023​

“Our life is dyed by the color of our thoughts,” he wrote.

You don’t have to think something about everything.

Success, at the end of your life, is a crowded table — family and

Robert Greene said, “practice patience. Wait a day before taking action on the pressing problem.”

Joyce Carol Oates had a simple rule, “I almost never publish immediately.” Every first draft is placed in a drawer where it sits, sometimes for a year or more. When three of my all-time favorite thinkers converge, I know I’ve found an important thing to think about.

Robert told me there are two types of time: alive time and dead time. One is when you sit around, when you wait until things happen to you. The other is when you are in control, when you make every second count, when you are learning and improving and growing.