Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
– Isaac Asimov
Happiness is hard work. While personal development sometimes gets a bad rap, it’s nothing more, and nothing less, than the process of curiosity, self-education, and hard work, that gives you the knowledge and skills to make your life as juicy as you [...]

It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you aren’t thinking for yourself, you aren’t thinking. [...]

We cannot think first and act afterward. From the moment of birth we are immersed in action, and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought.
– Alfred North Whitehead
It’s the starting point for almost every personal development geek: What do I want to do with my life?
You’ve no doubt learned many of the questions you’re [...]

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
– Scott Adams
Whether you’re a novelist, musician, software developer, painter, poet, designer, or any other kind of creative, you probably know what it feels like to have “that time of the month”. You cramp up and buckle down for the storm that [...]