Sublime

I am going to draw on some of my favourite thinking from the last two millennia, most of which will come from a time when philosophers – literally ‘lovers of wisdom’ – were concerned with how we might best live.

The Discipline of Action

(o “ringsiedad”, como la denomina el psicólogo David Laramie).

the brilliant Principles-based psychiatrist William Pettit.

The secret to this Gift is the instinctive ability to balance restraint (what to keep alive) and risk (what to change). These are people who inherently know that if you want to maintain success in life, you have to have an unflinching set of principles coupled with a constant need to update, revolutionise and expand your original investment.

To see past the ordinary and mundane and get to what might otherwise be invisible.

His advantage: he thinks like a scientist. He’s passionately dispassionate.

question the emotions and beliefs and even language that others take for granted.