Santiago Alviar

How you think about the world fundamentally dictates the actions you take in it. If you believe that people are generally cooperative and good-natured, that will color the way you interact with them. On the other hand, if you believe that people are inherently untrustworthy and selfish, that will shape the way you approach your relationships and work life as well. A framework of thought is the prerequisite to any form of action, and it can only be constructed with the ideas you’ve subscribed to. Ideas are the software that runs on the hardware of our minds, and reflection is the only tool we have to reliably maintain and update it.

The last thing I want is to be on my deathbed and realize there’s zero evidence that I ever existed.

“If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.”