A piece of wisdom from
April 28, 2020 · Tuesday
The quote
“Most people quit when it gets hard because the hard part is where the work is. Everyone wants to be the person on the other side of the suffering. Almost no one wants to be the person in it.”
— David Goggins · Mental Toughness
The concept
The 48 Laws of Power
A literacy of power, read it to recognise the game whether you want to play it or not.
Power is exchanged in every room you walk into, at work, in families, in friendships, and most people are illiterate in its grammar. Robert Greene's 1998 book gathers 48 patterns by which power has been won and lost for three thousand years…
A practice for today
Try this once today: the lesson of The 48 Laws of Power. A literacy of power, read it to recognise the game whether you want to play it or not.
From the Bhagavad Gita
Verse 2.20
न जायते म्रियते वा कदाचिन्नायं भूत्वा भविता वा न भूयः। अजो नित्यः शाश्वतोऽयं पुराणो न हन्यते हन्यमाने शरीरे॥
“The soul is never born, nor does it die. It has not come into being, will not come into being, and will not cease to be. Unborn, eternal, ever-existing, undying, primeval — it is not slain when the body is slain.”
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