At a restaurant do you order what you know is great， or do you try something new？ Do you make what you know will sell or try something new？ Do you keep dating new folks or try to commit to someone you already met？ The optimal balance for exploring new things vs exploiting them once found is: 1/3. Spend 1/3 of your time on exploring and 2/3 time on deepening. It is harder to devote time to exploring as you age because it seems unproductive， but aim for 1/3.

He was a man who had always been too proud to ask for help, and now he was too proud to accept it.

The root of all superstition is that men observe when things hit， and not when they miss， and commit to memory the one， and pass over the other.

我们都生活在荒谬之中，但要在荒谬中找到真实的情感。

I'm just trying to be better every day.