“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
“Higher-Order Thinking is one of the defining abilities of people that are able to make really great things happen. It applies to everything… — Sebastian Marshall Habits Copy Share Image
“From Nance-via-Stepan, I picked this behavior up too. Whenever I say I’m going to do something, I either note it in my… — Sebastian Marshall Habits 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 Better life Copy Share Image
“Living systems are open systems; closed systems are non-living systems. Point: If we don’t communicate with outside world—to gain information for knowledge… — Sebastian Marshall Knowledge and understanding Copy Share Image
“Cultivate an intense and almost fanatically paranoid emphasis on getting down form, preparation, and recovery.” — Sebastian Marshall Healing Copy Share Image
“The vehicle will not start. (the problem) 1. Why? The battery is dead. (first why) 2. Why? The accelerator is not functioning.… — Sebastian Marshall Root cause Copy Share Image
“At first, I found the whole thing vaguely offensive. Marvin Katko came to burgle, to commit a crime, he didn’t care at… — Sebastian Marshall American society 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
“Don’t miss these small opportunities to be constantly increasing your surface area without any effort — they add up. Going” — Sebastian Marshall Copy Share Image
“Most people think they’re just marvelously terrific, and who cares if they’re on time? They’re special and lovely. The mindset shift… — Sebastian Marshall Time Copy Share Image
“This is unsurprising. The history of the world is the history of people investing in dying trends to follow the crowd, whereas… — Sebastian Marshall History Copy Share Image
“Mission Orientation is a way of thinking – instead of thinking merely about actions to take, you constantly think about what your intent is,… — Sebastian Marshall Goals 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
“we also see two things that are very salient for Napoleon – 1. Whenever he saw an opportunity, he immediately felt… — Sebastian Marshall Strong desire 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 Goals 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