Kathzoofus

"A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push." ~Ludwig Wittgenstein

"We are made for cooperation, like feet, like hands, like eyelids, like the rows of the upper and lower teeth. To act against one another then is contrary to nature; and it is acting against one another to be vexed and to turn away." Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 2.1

I found via James Clear, author of Atomic Habits. It is from author  Michael Lewis  on the stories we tell ourselves: "As I’ve gotten older—I would say starting in my mid-to-late 20s—I could not help but notice the effect on people of the stories they told about themselves. If you listen to people, if you just sit and listen, you’ll find that there are patterns in the way they talk about themselves. There’s the kind of person who is always the victim in any story that they tell. Always on the receiving end of some injustice. There's the person who’s always kind of the hero of every story they tell. There's the smart person; they delivered the clever put down there. There are lots of versions of this, and you’ve got to be very careful about how you tell these stories because it starts to become you. You are—in the way you craft your narrative—kind of crafting your character. And so I did at some point decide, “I am going to adopt self-consciously as my narrative, th

"Remember it's not striving to be the best that produces change but self-knowledge and awareness. Don't try to change your reactions today. It is enough to see them more clearly." My daily EnneaThought from The Enneagram Institute . If you are interested in learning more, check out their website and buy the book, Wisdom of the Enneagram .

“Hoard food and it rots. Hoard money and you rot. Hoard power and the nation rots.” ―  Chuck Palahniuk ,  Adjustment Day