Find canvases for other people to paint on. Be an anteambulo. Clear the path for the people above you and you will eventually create a path for yours… - Ryan Holiday

Why do you think that great leaders and thinkers throughout history have “gone out into the wilderness” and come back with inspiration, with a plan, with an experience that puts them on a course that changes the world? It’s because in doing so they found perspective, they understood the larger picture in a way that wasn’t possible in the bustle of everyday life. Silencing the noise around them, they could finally hear the quiet voice they needed to listen to.

All of humanity’s problems,” Blaise Pascal said in 1654, “stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.

We must all either wear out or rust out, every one of us. My choice is to wear out. — THEODORE ROOSEVELT