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F. Scott Fitzgerald would finish his short letter to Frances (see yesterday and day before’s email if you missed them!) with a short list of things to think about. It’s as Stoic as anything he would write—and beyond that, just really good questions for anyone to consider on a daily basis. Things to think about: What am I really aiming at? […]

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In America, it’s Halloween, which is a fun holiday for children. In Mexico, however, it is the beginning of Día de los Muertos, a much more adult and philosophical holiday. All throughout Mexico, people will gather not to eat candy but to celebrate and remember their friends and family who have died. It is, in a sense, […]

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It was Juvenal who said of Alexander the Great that while he was alive the world was not big enough to contain his ambition. There are many extraordinary individuals like this. Caesar followed Alexander and Genghis Khan followed them both. Mozart had it, Lyndon Johnson had it, Margaret Thatcher and Hillary Clinton both had it. Perhaps you […]

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A flight is delayed 30 minutes and it’s frustrating. You want to get home so badly. But now you’re sitting there waiting for a crew member to meander through the terminal so the plane can board. Why are they doing this to me? we think, I’ll never get this 30 minutes with my family back. It’s true and […]

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In 1879, Thomas Edison wasn’t the only person experimenting with incandescent lights. But he was the only one who would go as far as to test six thousand different filaments—including one made from the beard hair of one of his men—inching closer each time to the one that would finally not just glow, but last […]

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An unexpected expense messes up your vacation budget. Hitting three red lights on the way to work makes you frustratingly late. You bump your elbow just the wrong way at just the wrong angle—a freak shot—and it breaks in two places. What terrible luck. Exactly when you don’t need it. The world can be a […]

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There is a wonderful interview with David Letterman from earlier this year, where he talks about some of the transgressive policies aimed at transgendered people in America. He said, Look, you’re a human, I’m a human. We’re breathing the same air. We have the same problems. We’re trying to get through our day. Who the fuck […]

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As we talked about yesterday, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s letter to his daughter has all sorts of fatherly and Stoic wisdom (from a man who has loved and lost and suffered many setbacks of his own making). The best of the letter is the list of items he gave to young Frances about what she should and shouldn’t worry […]

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In The Pocket Guide to Action, Kyle Eschenroeder describes a modern but essentially timeless problem. We are over-stimulated, untrusting, feeling a sort of “listless, restless, low-grade anxiety.” Should we do this? Should we do that? Which path is right, which path is better? But what if I don’t succeed? Today we face what man has always […]

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