“Likewise, “Okay. Talent and hard work are critical, but not enough. I need whoever has decisionmaking authority to like me and be… — Sebastian Marshall Career Copy Share Image
“THE STUDY OF ONESELF AND OTHERS The economists have a term called “revealed preferences” – it means that the only way… — Sebastian Marshall Education Copy Share Image
“But what shall we think of a governor's playing such pitiful tricks, and imposing so grossly on a poor ignorant boy! It… — Sebastian Marshall Copy Share Image
“The best CEOs I know all look for disruptions, interruptions, little risks, and existential risks and spend time mitigating them periodically. It’s… — Sebastian Marshall Copy Share Image
“*Buying the Depreciation: New Ikea furniture has to be about the worst purchase ever — why? Because you can almost always buy… — Sebastian Marshall Furniture Copy Share Image
“The “best guess” as to what you’ll do in any given situation is easy to make – Guess you’ll do the… — Sebastian Marshall Accuracy Copy Share Image
“Vigour requires strain; most triumph requires strife; most people in wealthy and comfortable backgrounds, if they study themselves, will find that strain… — Sebastian Marshall Fitness Copy Share Image
“In all spheres of life, cultivating a sense of aesthetics, and developing a sense of the romantic, leads to both a deeper… — Sebastian Marshall Beauty Copy Share Image
“3. You need to do empiricism – study reality diligently, independently of your morals – to remain on solid ground. 4. An empirical set of… — Sebastian Marshall Education Copy Share Image
“You can lose any particular short-term battle of will, but if you give yourself dozens, hundreds, thousands of opportunities to improve with… — Sebastian Marshall Copy Share Image
“Here is what the model of 4+1 Currencies became — Capacity: Your generalized ability to get results and make things happen.… — Sebastian Marshall Copy Share Image
“The enemy’s rear is the guerrillas’ front; they themselves have no rear. Their logistical problems are solved in a direct and elementary… — Sebastian Marshall Copy Share Image
“If you were a military official doing weapons procurement, it’s not-at-all obvious what you should prioritize for different military units. Do you… — Sebastian Marshall Rifles Copy Share Image
“*Various problem-solving instead of excuse-making mindsets: Pre-cooking a week of chicken on Sunday is trivially easy to do. Put them in Tupperware… — Sebastian Marshall Food Copy Share Image
“I can’t stress how important this is, and how liberating. Your results in a new discipline will likely be the baseline results… — Sebastian Marshall Discipline Copy Share Image
“Despite his inauspicious roots and lack of a recognizeable last name, this guy not only excelled at the art of war, but… — Sebastian Marshall Art Copy Share Image
“we also see two things that are very salient for Napoleon – 1. Whenever he saw an opportunity, he immediately felt… — Sebastian Marshall Napoleon Copy Share Image
“Almost Always Use Limited Duration Trials: There’s many things I’ve permanently quit in my life and never gone back to, but these… — Sebastian Marshall Limited time Copy Share Image
“Almost all modern governments are highly conscious of what journalism calls ‘world opinion.’ For sound reasons, mostly of an economic nature, they… — Sebastian Marshall Freedom of the press Copy Share Image
“In heaven, the cooks are French, the police are British, the lovers are Italian and everything is organized by the Germans. In… — Sebastian Marshall Copy Share Image
“Alcohol is similar: I don’t drink, but the drinkers in the MMM and Early Retirement Extreme communities often carry a flask with them when they go,… — Sebastian Marshall Copy Share Image
“If you read Tyson’s story in his autobiography, Undisputed Truth, you can see how D’Amato helped Tyson train and get focused. The young… — Sebastian Marshall Copy Share Image
“Reality is vast, vaster than imaginable. Every domain has a potential for nearly unlimited invention and innovation. The theme you see, over… — Sebastian Marshall Discipline Copy Share Image
“I’ve seen so many otherwise very talented executives fail to see how a large amount of deals and revenue coming in now… — Sebastian Marshall Customer Copy Share Image
“First-order consequences of Prohibition: alcohol is made illegal, legitimate producers of alcohol go out of business, decrease in drinking. Second-order consequences… — Sebastian Marshall Consequences Copy Share Image
“Seemingly random events and movements and trends gather power and momentum, unseen for long periods of time, and then bursting to the… — Sebastian Marshall Historians Copy Share Image
“to govern oneself, to govern and manage an institution or in business, to govern a city or country – you need to… — Sebastian Marshall Business Copy Share Image
“For instance, I used to regularly start lifting weights, aiming for 3 times or 4 times per week, but then I’d fall… — Sebastian Marshall Exercise Copy Share Image
“you can’t fight your life as a series of moment-by-moment struggles. If you do, sometimes you’ll clean your gear and put it… — Sebastian Marshall Discipline Copy Share Image
“Things like laying out your clothes and pre-deciding what you want to wear (and doing laundry if you’re lacking clean clothes), ensuring… — Sebastian Marshall Clean clothes Copy Share Image
“life is like a giant smorgasbord of more delicious alternatives than you can ever hope to taste. So you have to reject… — Sebastian Marshall Copy Share Image
“Let's sit down," said Musashi, crossing his legs and dropping to the grass. He felt a twinge of exasperation. Why did Matahachi… — Sebastian Marshall Copy Share Image
“Over time, I started to see correlations — the one that surprised me the most was that, after about three bad nights… — Sebastian Marshall Good habits Copy Share Image
“Best advice I’ve read from a nutritionist on eating better is to cover half of your plate during every meal with vegetables. … — Sebastian Marshall Eating Copy Share Image
“You have homeostatic pressures. Don’t naively assume they’re “real” – reason through them to the root cause. 2. You have default… — Sebastian Marshall Better way Copy Share Image
“It really actually doesn't take much time to run small experiments, and the payoff is greater levels of energy and more thriving… — Sebastian Marshall Energy Copy Share Image
“I now track the following questions on a little spreadsheet every morning – “Did I adhere to set wake-time?” “Did I… — Sebastian Marshall Every morning Copy Share Image
“All told, this leads from going with naive intuition – which was the eventual downfall of Napoleon Bonaparte and Wilhelm II –… — Sebastian Marshall Intuition Copy Share Image
