John Gicking

“Being unexpected adds to the weight of a disaster, and being a surprise has never failed to increase a person’s pain. For that reason, nothing should ever be unexpected by us. Our minds should be sent out in advance to all things and we shouldn’t just consider the normal course of things, but what could actually happen. For is there anything in life that Fortune won’t knock off its high horse if it pleases her?” —SENECA, MORAL LETTERS, 91.3a–4”
― Ryan Holiday, The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living

“I do not know how the Third World War will be fought, but I can tell you what they will use in the Fourth—rocks.”   —Albert Einstein, in an interview with Alfred Werner for Liberal Judaism (1949)”
― Robert Masello, The Einstein Prophecy

“But it’s not only the breadth and quantity of knowledge that has made medicine complicated. It is also the execution—the practical matter of what knowledge requires clinicians to do.”
― Atul Gawande, The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right

“Being trapped is just a position, not a fate. You get out of it by addressing and eliminating each part of that position through small, deliberate actions—not by trying (and failing) to push it away with superhuman strength. With”
― Ryan Holiday, The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph