You have to go deep. If your goal is to get not just smarter or more knowledgeable, but wiser, you cannot be content to learn in half measures. - Ryan Holiday

Almost universally, the kind of performance we give on social media is positive. It’s more “Let me tell you how well things are going. Look how great I am.” It’s rarely the truth: “I’m scared. I’m struggling. I don’t know.

And that’s what is so insidious about talk. Anyone can talk about himself or herself. Even a child knows how to gossip and chatter. Most people are decent at hype and sales. So what is scarce and rare? Silence. The ability to deliberately keep yourself out of the conversation and subsist without its validation. Silence is the respite of the confident and the strong.

Remember: No one is having less fun than an overextended, overcommitted person with debtors at their door.