Modern capitalism makes helping people fake it until they make it a cherished industry. But the truth is that wealth is what you don’t see.


“A society must always aim for balance. It needs intellectuals, it needs warriors, it needs traders, it needs artists, and it needs skilled workers. If it empowers one group too much or another too little, it is headed for chaos.”
― Sita: Warrior of Mithila
― Sita: Warrior of Mithila

“What is the difference between describing ‘how’ and explaining ‘why’? To describe ‘how’ means to reconstruct the series of specific events that led from one point to another. To explain ‘why’ means to find causal connections that account for the occurrence of this particular series of events to the exclusion of all others.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“One of history’s few iron laws is that luxuries tend to become necessities and to spawn new obligations.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“Man is what be believes.” —Anton Chekhov”
― Unlimited Power: The New Science of Personal Achievement
― Unlimited Power: The New Science of Personal Achievement

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”
― Ikigai: The Japanese secret to a long and happy life
― Ikigai: The Japanese secret to a long and happy life
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