Tags: volumen

On work

1. Master both rigid structure and free flow. Build like a bridge, or move like the water beneath it. The skill is knowing which the work requires.
2. Give your attention in proportion to the merits of the case: sometimes full, sometimes none.
3. Don’t try to stay on top of things; you can’t. Try to get to the bottom of things. Success there isn’t guaranteed, but it is more fulfilling.
4. Stop at the 80% limit while eating, talking, and working.
5. The most essential ingredient in any recipe is the appetite of those who will eat the meal.

On thinking

6. Reflect on what you’ve read and written. Information becomes knowledge through reflection, and reflection cultivates intuition.
7. Analogy is not equivalence. The first offers insight; only the second offers truth.
8. The absence of hardship breeds restlessness, not peace.

On truth

9. Be truthful in your actions, even when the truth is inconvenient. Truthfulness doesn’t oblige you to hand every truth to someone who will twist it.
10. A single lie lingers, however many truths try to wash it away.