Majicman Notes

There is a word in African philosophy: Ubuntu. Desmond Tutu describes it this way: “My humanity is bound up in yours. A person is a person through other persons. I am human because I belong,… Read more

The best thing for being sad… is to learn something. That is the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to… Read more

When given a choice to prioritize significance (meaningfulness) over success (financial or otherwise), take it. The question is, how do you choose what to focus on? One piece of sage advice shared with me by… Read more

Failure is rarely the result of some isolated event. Rather, it is a consequence of a long list of accumulated little failures which happen as a result of too little discipline. Failure occurs each time… Read more

Got to live to the point of tears. Albert Camus Read more

Be kind. Everyone you meet is fighting a great battle. Let everything happen—beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final. from The Tenth Muse Read more

My worry is that … you won’t put enough really excellent stuff into your brain. I’m talking about what you might call the “theory of maximum taste.” This theory is based on the idea that… Read more

This is Plutarch’s message: The world is for the taking. Ambition and determination are the means of achieving it. Imitate great men of history, and the world can be yours. Likewise, towering ambition and ceaseless… Read more

Generally speaking, envy, resentment, revenge, and self-pity are disastrous modes of thought. Self-pity gets pretty close to paranoia and paranoia is one of the very hardest things to reverse. You do not want to drift… Read more

I like the word ‘gumption’ because it’s so homely and so forlorn and so out of style it looks as if it needs a friend and isn’t likely to reject anyone who comes along. I… Read more