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"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." -Mahatma Gandhi

If you are interested in Steve Job's philosophy of life, you may find value in learning about Stoicism.

> Montaigne was fond of an ancient drinking game where the members took turns holding up a painting of a corpse inside a coffin and cheered “Drink and be merry for when you’re dead you will look like this.”

Emotions like anxiety and fear have their roots in uncertainty and rarely in experience. Anyone who has made a big bet on themselves knows how much energy both states can consume. The solution is to do something about that ignorance. Make yourself familiar with the things, the worst-case scenarios, that you’re afraid of.

http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2009/04/13/stoicism-101...