Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up. Discharge your duties faithfully and well. Step by step you get ahead, but not necessarily in fast spurts. But you build discipline by preparing for fast spurts. Slug it out one inch at a time, day by day, and at the end of the day—if you live long enough—like most people, you will get out of life what you deserve.

Life and its various passages can be hard, brutally hard. The three things I have found helpful in coping with its challenges are:

Have low expectations

Have a sense of humor

Surround yourself with the love of friends and family.

Above all, live with change and adapt to it. If the world didn’t change, I’d still have a 12 handicap.

Charlie Munger