Never pick a fight with someone you're not sure you can defeat. - Robert Greene

Learn to measure the people you deal with by the depth of their soul, and if possible associate as much as you can with those of the expansive variety.

What matters is not education or money, but your persistence and the intensity of your desire to learn; that failures, mistakes, and conflicts are often the best education of all; and how true creativity and mastery emerge from all this.

It is the height of stupidity to believe that in the course of your short life, your few decades of consciousness, you can somehow rewire the configurations of your brain through technology and wishful thinking, overcoming the effect of six million years of development.