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- [[125.014 Books - Abraham Lincoln - Team of Rivals]]
- Marcus Aurelius tags: relevant:
- [[106.005 About me - My life mission]]
- [[105.40.48 Consulting - Nobody cares about who you are]]
- [[109.45 Productivity - Prioritize and focus on one thing at a time]]
- [[110.003 Startups - If you're not shipping you're dying]]
- [[116.021 Life Lessons - If you're not growing you're dying]]
- [[116.033 Life Lessons - What I do every day matters more than what I do every once in a while]]
- [[116.051 Life Lessons - It's time to stop fucking around]]
- [[116.105 Life Lessons - Learn the lesson, forget the pain]]
- [[119.002 Conflict - More communication means more conflict]]
- [[119.017 NVC - How to get what I want even when being screamed at]]
- [[119.030 NVC - The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence]]
- [[119.049 NVC - The hardest part of communication is staying present for it]]
- [[122.08.01 PM User Testing - Get out of the building and talk to customers]]
- [[122.08.19 PM User Testing - Product Manager MUST attend all user tests]]
"The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way." - Marcus Aurelius
While this is a very stoic thought, it was also Lincoln's. He endured great hardships and defeats and pushed straight through. He wrote a young cadet who was having a hard time "I am older than you, have felt badly myself, and know, what I tell you is true. Adhere to your purpose and you will soon feel as well as you ever did. On the contrary, if you falter, and give up, you will lose the power of keeping any resolution, and will regret it all your life."