Replacing the education system as co-founder of Sora Schools. Learning has always been my favorite activity, despite the best efforts of my schools.
“Amor fati: this is the very core of my being—And as to my prolonged illness, do I not owe much more to it than I owe to my health? To it I owe a higher kind of health, a sort of health which grows stronger under everything that does not actually kill it!—To it, I owe even my philosophy.… Only great suffering is the ultimate emancipator of spirit”
– Nietzsche contra Wagner, Friedrich Nietzsche
“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”
– Man’s Search for Meaning, Viktor Frankl
“I teach you the overman. Man is something that shall be overcome. What have you done to overcome him? All beings so far have created something beyond themselves; and do you want to be the ebb of this great flood and even go back to the beasts rather than overcome man? What is the ape to man? A laughingstock or a painful embarrassment. And man shall be just that for the overman: a laughingstock or a painful embarrassment.”
– Thus spoke Zarathustra, Friedrich Nietzsche
“Let us prepare our minds as if we’d come to the very end of life. Let us postpone nothing. Let us balance life’s books each day. … The one who puts the finishing touches on their life each day is never short of time.”
– Seneca
“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.”
– Alan Watts
“Choose not to be harmed and you won’t feel harmed. Don’t feel harmed and you haven’t been.”
– Meditations, Marcus Aurelius
“The art of taking feedback is such a crucial skill in life, particularly harsh and critical feedback. We not only need to take this harsh feedback, but actively solicit it, labor to seek out the negative precisely when our friends and family and brain are telling us that we’re doing great. The ego avoids such feedback at all costs, however. Who wants to remand themselves to remedial training? It thinks it already knows how and who we are – that is, it thinks we are spectacular, perfect, genius, truly innovative. It dislikes reality and prefers its own assessment.”
– Ego Is the Enemy, Ryan Holliday
“When you grow up you tend to get told the world is the way it is and your life is just to live your life inside the world. Try not to bash into the walls too much. Try to have a nice family life, have fun, save a little money. That’s a very limited life. Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact, and that is – everything around you that you call life, was made up by people that were no smarter than you. And you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use.”
– Steve Jobs
“Many things are improbable, only a few are impossible.”
– Elon Musk