Jason Throckmorton

There are the things we fear that we should, and the things that we should fear but don’t.

Most people fear dying. Most people don’t fear, don’t care, that they are living a kind of death.

Agrippinus, one of the great Stoics of Nero’s time, refused to compromise his belief or to keep a low profile even though it put him in danger of running afoul of

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Toolkit to activate excitement:

Act on your highest excitement

Whatever options are available to you at any given moment, choose the option that contains more excitement than the other (even if the excitement is just a little bit more)

To the best of your ability

Act on it to the best of your ability, taking it as far as you can until you can take it

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Today

By Billy Collins

If ever there were a spring day so perfect,
so uplifted by a warm intermittent breeze

that it made you want to throw
open all the windows in the house

and unlatch the door to the canary's cage,
indeed, rip the little door from its jamb,

a day when the cool brick paths
and the garden bursting with peonies

seemed so etched in sunlight
tha

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