Rule of Life

A man with the rather impressive name of Mikhail Csikszentmihalyi identified something called “flow,” where you are so absorbed in a task you are doing, so fully im-mersed, that you become almost unaware of external events.

But you will let them go, embrace them as character forming

And the more flexible we are, the more adventurous, the more life-embracing, then the more new avenues there will be to explore—and make mistakes in, of course.

Wisdom isn’t about not making mistakes, but about learning to escape afterward with our dignity and sanity intact.

kind to yourself when you do muck things up.

Let people find out for themselves with no clues from you.

Keep It Under Your Hat

There is no doubt about life. It just is. Be confident. Be committed. Be sure of yourself. Once you have committed yourself to a set course, a path, a plan, then follow it through.

Have no doubt it was the right thing to do and no doubt that you will succeed.

You might like to call it your conscience if you like, but deep down you know when you’ve done something bad.

You become known as someone who is incredibly calm no matter what is happening. Calm people are trusted. Calm people are relied on. Calm people are looked up to and given responsibility. Calm people last longer.