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Sign upLearn emotional control from legendary samurai Musashi’s Dokkodo: Accept reality, embrace discomfort, ignore others’ opinions, and live by a code of honor. Battle-tested wisdom for modern stress management.
In this essay, I’ll be covering the six key ideas from The Book of Five Rings, how you can use those learn and accomplish anything you want, and if you stick around to the end, I’ll tell you the one thing you need to have gained a massive advantage in any endeavor that I think even the great Musashi missed.
See how the concepts from the Art of War can help you adapt to changing circumstances, prepare for unexpected encounters, know yourself better, and strategically control information.
38 Mamba Mentality Quotes on learning, dealing with pressure, work ethic, relating to people, and developing an indomitable will
Despite being written in 1984, Prometheus Rising by Robert Anton Wilson has some solid predictions about the next 30 years that are startlingly accurate.
Some people say that 2022 is more like the world of George Orwell’s “1984.” I read the book and collected quotes so you can see for yourself.
In Man’s Search For Meaning, Viktor Frankl teaches from his experiences surviving the Nazi Concentration. Here are the powerful quotes.
In this post, I’ll find modern meaning and interpretation of Miyamoto Musashi’s short classic “Dokkodo”.
I’ve collected the big ideas from Machiavelli’s classic treatise on political philosophy and political theory. These are pragmatic ideas to seize power.
The Tao Te Ching teaches how to live according to the “Tao” or “The way”. Here are some of the passages from the book that will truly open your mind.
These are the quotes and big ideas I’ve collected from Bruce Lee’s “The Tao of Jeet Kune Do”, with explanation and extrapolation.
The Art of War is a Chinese military classic with many lessons that apply today. In this post, I cover 10 lessons with modern applications.
Here are 12 great quotes from “Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don’t Have All the Facts” by former professional poker player Annie Duke.
Daryl Davis is a Black man who has friends in the Ku Klux Klan. He wrote about his experiences. This post explores the big ideas he discusses.
Accidental Courtesy follows Daryl Davis, a black jazz musician, who befriends members of the Ku Klux Klan in hopes of converting them and stopping hate.
The Cure For Hate tells the story of Tony McAleer as he goes from Neo-Nazi to becoming a voice for peace and unity, and everything he learns along the way.
The Hagakure: The Book of The Samurai was written in the 1700s by Yamamoto Tsunetomo as a guide for samurai. These are the 10 best quotes and ideas from it.
The Book of Five Rings is almost 400 years old, but its lessons are timeless. I’ve collected the ten best quotes and ideas that you can apply today.