“Focussing on money is identical to putting off a full life. Lust to make meaning out of your work.

“Advice = Limited life experience + Overgeneralization

“I want very much to die. But dying is hard work. Death is in control of the process, I cannot influence its course. All I can do is wait.

“Anxiety is at the heart of the psychological understanding of man. Beyond psychology, in the work of existential philosophers like Kierkegaard_info and Heidegger_info, the individual’s struggle with anxiety is the preferred route to self-discovery.

“If you would persuade, appeal to interest and not to reason.

“With the notable exception of LinkedIn usage and VCs in the Bay Area friending everyone on Facebook, married men are not hanging out on social networks. Married women, however, are joining social networks in droves. In fact, women between the ages 35-50 are the fastest growing segment on social networks, especially on MySpace.

“Measure productivity over weeks and months rather than days.

“As a batsman I’ll always feel I underachieved because I couldn’t convert my starts, and I’ll never know why. Sometimes I was the master of my own failings, other times it just wasn’t meant to be.