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When to Leave

Start With the End in Mind

Strive for Your Actions to Have a Single Tenor

Write to Escape Your Default Setting

Write to Pool Your Shifting Selves

Write for Exposure (But Not That Kind)

Write to Improve Your Career

The Struggle Alone Is Enough to Fill Your Heart

Speak to Yourself in Full Sentences

Station Your Canaries (Leading Indicators and System Interrupts)

Align Your Actions and Identity

Do the Right Things Quietly

Work Swells to Fill the Time Allotted for It (Parkinson’s Law)

Fire and Advance (Speed)

Be Irrationally Patient (Delayed Gratification)

Recite the Serenity Prayer Often

Increase Your Optionality

Rules Clobber Goals

Your Actions Become Your Inner Monologue Becomes Your Identity

Sleep, Diet, and Exercise are Your Body’s Flywheel

Iron Never Lies

It’s Good to Quiver Under the Bar

Find the Color (Enthusiasm)

Stamina is a Quiet Advantage

Forget Who Forgets You

Bankrupt Your Soul by Being a People Pleaser

Starve the Opinion Monster

Your Life Follows Your Attention

Walk the Shoreline of Your Ignorance

Seek Unwelcome Truths to Widen Your Base of Understanding

Never Be a Victim

Fear and Loneliness Cause People to Act in Self-Contradictory Ways

Harness Your Venom (Projection)

The Tailwind (Gratitude)

Leave the Bucket

Start at Zero

Working Wisdom: Field Notes for Early Life

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