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- Charlie Munger – Feeling Like a Victim Is Perfectly Disastrous https://www.butwhatfor.com/p/takeaway-tuesday-facing-adversity-charlie-munger 230 comments
- A Stoic Philosopher in a Hanoi Prison (2020) https://www.butwhatfor.com/a-stoic-philosopher-in-a-hanoi-prison/ 4 comments
- We only ever talk about the third attack on Pearl Harbor https://www.butwhatfor.com/admiral-yarnell-and-an-attack-on-pearl-harbor/ 238 comments
- David Foster Wallace: This Is Water https://www.butwhatfor.com/david-foster-wallace-this-is-water/ 2 comments
- "I could expect hard work, plenty of danger, and no recognition." - Eric Haney, Delta Force https://www.butwhatfor.com/p/perseverance-great-dont-forget-prepare 9 comments military
- "They say that the old man has nothing even to hope for. Yet he is in better case than the young man, since what the latter merely hopes for, the former has already attained; the one wishes to live long, the other has lived long." - Cicero, perspective on the benefits of old age https://www.butwhatfor.com/on-old-age-with-cicero/ 74 comments philosophy
- "What was the lesson here? Simple. Don’t quit. Never quit no matter what. Keep going until someone tells you to sit down. Keep going as long as you’re able to move, no matter how poorly you think you may be doing. Just don’t quit." - Eric Haney, Delta Force Operator https://www.butwhatfor.com/perseverance-is-great-but-dont-forget-to-prepare/ 6 comments army
- “I am the captain of my soul” - Vice Admiral James Stockdale on his time in a Hanoi Prison during the Vietnam War https://www.butwhatfor.com/a-stoic-philosopher-in-a-hanoi-prison/ 7 comments navy