[Text] Your potential, the absolute best you’re capable of – that’s the metric to measure yourself against. Winning is not enough. People can get lucky and win. People can be assholes and win. Anyone can win. But not everyone is the best possible version of themselves

From Ego is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday.

This is very motivating to me. It's a great goal that every person can achieve. Ryan is a big proponent of stoic philosophy, and he goes on to say we can't control or rely on external events. We can only rely on ourselves and our responses.

A few follow up quotes from the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, also a practitioner of stoic philosophy:

"Objective judgement, now at this very moment. Unselfish action, now at this very moment. Willing acceptance—now at this very moment—of all external events. That’s all you need."

That means look at the situation objectively, it's usually not nearly as bad as you think. Next, take unselfish action, don't sit there and get worked up. Action helps fix it. Last, accept it. It is what it is. Get on with things.

"The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way."

Ryan Holiday wrote another book about this, in which the title says it nicely: The Obstacle Is The Way

Submitted August 03, 2017 at 07:50PM by chuckpatel http://ift.tt/2hqZCg0