Tools of Titans by Tim Ferrissby Parker on TwosThe hardest thing you’re ever going to do in your life is fail at something, and if you don’t start failing at things, you will not live a full life. You’ll be living a cautious life on a path that you know is pretty much guaranteed to more or less work. That’s not getting the most out of this amazing world we live in. You have to do the hardest thing that you have not been prepared for: you have to be prepared to fail. That’s how you’re going to expand yourself and grow. As you work through that process of failure and learning, you will really deepen into the human being you’re capable of beingThe public is not a threat. We all need each other, and can learn from each other. No need for stage frightWisdom is nothing more than the ability to take your own adviceMindfulness is just that quality of mind which allows you to pay attention to sights and sounds and sensations, even thoughts themselves, without being lost in thought and without grasping at what is pleasant and pushing what is unpleasant awayWe are talking to ourselves nonstop, and until you can break that spell and begin to notice thoughts themselves as objects of consciousness, just arising and passing away, you can’t even pay attention to your breath, or to anything else, with any clarity