Greetings, I've compiled a list of aphorisms, protips, and

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emotional-territorial circuit
>If the audience knew what they needed, they'd be the artist, not the audience.
>You can't please everyone.
>I'm under no obligation to make sense to you.
>The lower self is where all the real decisions are made.
>Only weasels try to hide their dirty laundry.
>I don't treat people badly. I treat them accordingly.
>Better to be pissed off than pissed on.
>Better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
>Be blunt and assume the results are the best possible under the circumstances.
>I deserve answers that satisfy me.
>I can't believe in things that don't believe in me.
>If you love me, you'll accept who and what I am.
>Never wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.
>More money, more problems.
>No authority is perfect.
>Beware people who rationalize why they don't have to show respect.
>Bravery is mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
>If you don't terrify people a little bit, what's the point?
>Only a fool considers wealth a matter of currency.
>Collect assets, strangle liabilities.
>You'll know a man's weakness from observing the means he uses to attack you.
>Emotions are to be processed, not repressed.
>Whoever holds their frame the longest and the strongest wins.
>If the service is free, you're the product.
>Fear is no excuse for foolishness.
>Playing it safe is riskier than giving up what you love.
>Make decisions first, then make them right.
>The bottom dog is the most vicious.
>You can't buy your way to individuality.
>What do you do for its own sake?
>If you're just "following orders", you're liable to do something stupid. Break social norms if necessary.
>The mind likes to create win states from whatever materials happen to be available.
>I don't have a welcome mat at my door because I am not a liar.
>You are more confident when you don't know the odds.
>A bad vibe tells you what your values really are.

Most of your tidbits seem reasonable, anon. Whatever works for you, I guess.

>>18637881

Mine are better.
Fight me faggot.

Bad habits are easy to form and hard to live with. Good habits are hard to form and easy to live with.
Either you have plans for your life or others do. And what do they have for you? Not much.
Discipline weighs ounces, regret weighs tons.
The greatest value in life is not what you get, the greatest value in life is who you become.

My favourite is probably

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure

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>Pragmatism: If it works, it's true enough.
>Don't be too theoretical.
>Whoever controls your words controls your mind.
>The self is unfathomable.
>Your conscious mind is the least informed and the last to know.
>You are an animal only CAPABLE of intelligence.
>You are not invulnerable to propaganda and hypnosis.
>An organized environment promotes an organized psyche.
>Stake life on truth.
>When the imagination and willpower are in conflict, the imagination always wins.
>Procrastination is a failure to think about thinking.
>Just get started. You can draw a circle beginning anywhere.
>Never go along with anything you don't understand.
>Don't pretend to understand things you don't. Better to err on the side of playing dumb.
>Subject your understanding to the How Do I Know? test.
>Graham's Principles of Investment: 1) Soundness of the investment, 2) protect yourself from serious losses, 3) aspire adequate rather than extraordinary results.
- Treat time like money.
- Don't face a difficult problem head on. Focus on what you CAN fix.
>What 20% of the work produces 80% of the outcome?
>If you can't fail, it's not interesting.
>You are what you think about.
>If you have to grind for future rewards, work so you satisfy both your current and future selves.
>When people demand explanations, they could be laying groundwork for how you could be considered wrong.
>Begin with the end in mind.
>Dilemmas cause enlightenment.
>Delay judgement to the extent you want to understand.
>"If I was an X, what would I do?"
>Tenacity causes success.
- If stuck, do a bad draft first. You can't edit a blank page.
>You can't reason with the unreasonable.
>You can't control the wind, but you can adjust your sails.
>Not all patterns are valid.
>If it can't be answered empirically, it's bullshit at the present time.
>Mental Hygiene: If you encounter an anomaly, assume you had no control and work backward. Situational analysis first, personal analysis last.

>Law of Holes: If you're in a hole, stop digging!
>Better done than perfect.
>Dunning-Kruger Effect: You're bad at estimating your own competence. People who act certain in their competencies are likely amateurs.
>Failure is feedback.
>Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

These sound like the catch-phrases they spout in Brave New World; I hope you don't get these from self-help books.

>>18638169
Sometimes. What's wrong with that?