Learning machine

Their wordsMy second prescription for misery is to learn everything you possibly can from your own personal experience, minimizing what you learn vicariously from the good and bad experience of others, living and dead. This prescription is a sure-shot producer of misery and second-rate achievement.

Their wordsYou are not going to get very far in life based on what you already know. You’re going to advance in life by what you’re going to learn after you leave here.

Their wordsI constantly see people rise in life who are not the smartest, sometimes not even the most diligent, but they are learning machines. They go to bed every night a little wiser than when they got up and boy does that help—particularly when you have a long run ahead of you.

Their wordswisdom acquisition is a moral duty. It’s not something you do just to advance in life. Wisdom acquisition is a moral duty.

Their wordsare your small actions accumulating or are they evaporating? You know, are you doing small things each day that are oriented toward a larger outcome or are you doing small things each day that are just kind of like one-offs and don't really add up? In a lot of ways, I feel like the two time frames that matter most in life are 10 years and 1 hour

Their wordsmaking a mistake is not a problem that um not learning from mistakes is a problem

Their wordsan expression pain plus reflection equals progress

Their wordsif I'm evolving, I will have learned so much more that my thoughts today will seem slightly immature and naive.