Learn how to tie a bowline knot. Practice in the dark. With one hand. For the rest of your life you’ll use this knot more times than you would ever believe.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals. At your funeral people will not recall what you did； they will only remember how you made them feel.
I’m positive that in 100 years much of what I take to be true today will be proved to be wrong， maybe even embarrassingly wrong， and I try really hard to identify what it is that I am wrong about today.
Following your bliss is a recipe for paralysis if you don’t know what you are passionate about. A better motto for most youth is “master something， anything”. Through mastery of one thing， you can drift towards extensions of that mastery that bring you more joy， and eventually discover where your bliss is.
Buying tools: Start by buying the absolute cheapest tools you can find. Upgrade the ones you use a lot. If you wind up using some tool for a job， buy the very best you can afford.
Experience is overrated. When hiring， hire for aptitude， train for skills. Most really amazing or great things are done by people doing them for the first time.
When someone is nasty， rude， hateful， or mean with you， pretend they have a disease. That makes it easier to have empathy toward them which can soften the conflict.
