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Michel de Montaigne

Essayist, inventor of the essay

“I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.”
Michel de Montaigne
Image: Wikimedia Commons, Portrait of Michel de Montaigne, circa unknown.jpg

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Study yourself honestly.

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Study yourself

To essay is to try. Write and think to find out what you actually believe.

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Socrates

Socrates

Philosopher of Athens

“The unexamined life is not worth living.”

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Adam Grant

Organizational psychologist, Wharton

“Think like a scientist.”

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Charlie Munger

Charlie Munger

Vice Chairman, Berkshire Hathaway

“Assemble a latticework of mental models.”

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Marcus Aurelius

Marcus Aurelius

Roman emperor, Stoic

“You have power over your mind, not events.”

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Richard Feynman

Physicist, Nobel laureate

“You must not fool yourself.”

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Aristotle

Aristotle

Philosopher, founder of the Lyceum

“You are what you repeatedly do.”

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