#WithChude

This is the idea that there is nothing anything that anyone can do to you that you cannot forgive because it is in your power to forgive. When you forgive, you are exercising power.

When you see people making smart arguments, sometimes, it is fear - they are afraid of being cheated, lied to, manipulated, oppressed, not being appreciated. The best way to respond, when you remember this central truth, is with empathy.

Hiding things by not saying the truth does not make things better. It is on you to ask for the truth and encourage people to tell the truth, than to be polite and hide it.

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A book from one of my mentors, Charlie Monger, is titled 'All I want to know is where I'm going to die so I don't go there'. This speaks to understanding reality for what it is not what you want to hear.

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There's nothing worse than the inflated ego of thinking you're perfect and beyond flaws. If you never get negative feedback, those around you are lying to you.

Someone said to me recently that they didn't trust my integrity. First, I was annoyed, then, quickly, I moved beyond that reaction. I rumbled with it, I thought about it and came to my own conclusion.

Every criticism you receive is constructive because you are the one that receives it and constructs something from it, irrespective of the intentions of where it came from.

When you meet people who have advice for everybody, don't let them distract you. You don't have control over them, you have control over yourself.