That’s from Seneca, letter 79, paragraph 17.
I don’t care about “them” and their facades, their pretense, their lies to me.
I care about me, pretending to a different audience: me.
Rigorous self-honesty. That’s the phrase to live by. Taleb says “If you see a fraud and do not say ‘fraud’, you are a fraud”.
Call out your own bullshit on yourself. It’s hard because self will not reveal self to self. But it can be done. It’s hard, not impossible.
Rigorous self-honesty.
In my binge of Rogan/Willink/Goggins on the plane yesterday, Rogan said write down your goals. This morning, I was cleaning a cupboard of stuff that hadn’t moved in a decade. There, in a pile of old paper, is a notebook.
Write it down. Be honest with yourself.
God gave me a tool with which to weed this garden.