The Stoic Student

  You probably don’t want success. Sure, you are ambitious. But it’s one thing to have big goals, and another to have an obsession. Obsession drives you crazy. If you don’t have that drive, I say you don’t want success. You’re just teased by the idea of becoming great. I respect people who can be honest with themselves. So if you don’t have an obsession, have the humility to acknowledge it. There’s still hope for you. To create obsession, create urgency The key to become great is “urgency”. Obsession and urgency go together. When your back is against the wall, you are obsessed with finishing the tasks It’s when the deadline is here that you are the most productive Urgency makes us want to work harder. Here’s how to create that urgency: Remember that you will die Here’s the practical tip you can implement right now to transform your life: Think about death. It’s only when we notice we don’t have much time left that we see how much of it we’ve wast...

Think like a conqueror and win the battle of life Self Sabotage You need to know how to overcome self-sabotage. A part of your mind seeks your own destruction. It seeks bad choices and feels pleasure when we indulge into them. It likes temptation and failures. I had a chance to explore this part of myself during the last months. And oh boy, it is sneaky. It takes advantage of difficult tasks to convince you to give up and step on your past progress. There’s no doubt that this “Self-Sabotage” part of us can 100% kill who we could’ve been. Those who conquer this part of themselves become master of their own fate. But if you don’t, it’s very easy to lose track of what you (personally) want out of life. Self-Sabotage — the steps to be a conqueror: Those who dominate their self-destructive tendencies are guided by a calling bigger than themselves. That’s the first step: finding where your calling comes from. Then, the conqueror tries to find his weaknesses. Most of them ...