Skip to content

Aaron Graves, PhDude

Empowering people to reach their full potential

  • Home
  • Blog
    • All Posts
    • Categories
      • General
      • Life
        • Family
        • Fitness
        • Inspirational / Motivational
        • Recipes
        • Sports
      • Philosophical
        • Anarchism
        • Buddhism / Dudeism
        • Stoicism
        • Theology
      • Projects
        • Aneuch
        • Coding
        • de oppresso liber
        • MyUnixHost
        • Reading
        • Writing
    • Popular Posts
    • Tag Cloud
    • Archives
  • About
    • About the Site
    • Tools & Resources
    • Buddhism
    • Dudeism
    • Links
    • My Reading List
    • What I’m Doing Now
  • Highlights
    • The Present
    • My Vows
    • My Mantras
    • Breathe
    • My Principles
    • Eight Verses of Training the Mind
  • Contact Me
Aaron Graves, PhDude
  • Home
  • Blog
    • All Posts
    • Categories
      • General
      • Life
        • Family
        • Fitness
        • Inspirational / Motivational
        • Recipes
        • Sports
      • Philosophical
        • Anarchism
        • Buddhism / Dudeism
        • Stoicism
        • Theology
      • Projects
        • Aneuch
        • Coding
        • de oppresso liber
        • MyUnixHost
        • Reading
        • Writing
    • Popular Posts
    • Tag Cloud
    • Archives
  • About
    • About the Site
    • Tools & Resources
    • Buddhism
    • Dudeism
    • Links
    • My Reading List
    • What I’m Doing Now
  • Highlights
    • The Present
    • My Vows
    • My Mantras
    • Breathe
    • My Principles
    • Eight Verses of Training the Mind
  • Contact Me

attitude

What Counts Most

November 2, 2014 by Aaron Graves

YOU CAN’T CONTROL OTHERS’ ACTS, BUT YOU CAN CONTROL YOUR REACTION TO THEIR ACTS, AND THAT IS WHAT COUNTS MOST TO YOU. No one can make you feel any negative emotion — fear, anger, or inferiority — without your express permission. There will always be people who find perverse enjoyment in upsetting others, or who …

Read more »

Categories Philosophical Tags attitude, Napoleon Hill, positive Leave a comment
February 2026
MTWTFSS
 1
2345678
9101112131415
16171819202122
232425262728 
« Dec    

Most Recent

  • Can a Cup of Coffee a Day Make You Rich? December 30, 2025
  • Declare Email Bankruptcy June 12, 2025
  • Splitting The Atom May 17, 2025
  • I Used Claude.ai to Create a Discord Bot—Here’s What I Learned About the State of AI Code Writing October 11, 2024
  • I tracked my food every day for the last three weeks. Did I learn anything? June 29, 2024
  • Things to Practice for Greatness June 3, 2024
  • Day 2 of 100 Days of SwiftUI November 12, 2023
  • Day 1 of 100 Days of SwiftUI November 11, 2023
  • If It’s Worth Doing, It’s Worth Doing Poorly July 10, 2022
  • Beastie and *nix August 28, 2021

Most Popular

  • Lost Yourself? How About a Walkabout. - 54,281 views
  • Doctrines on God and Jesus - 41,389 views
  • Aneuch - 38,378 views
  • New Design for de oppresso liber - 37,972 views
  • Why MUHDash Must Be Rewritten - 31,978 views
  • My Mantras - 31,425 views
  • Sending Metta After Road Rage - 29,541 views
  • Stop Directing The River’s Flow - 27,960 views
  • My Vows - 25,785 views
  • Anathapindikovada Sutta: Advice to A Dying Man - 24,851 views

Archives

Hi, I’m Aaron Graves.

Voluntaryist, Entrepreneur, Writer, Hobbyist Programmer, and PhDude.

Most Recent

  • Can a Cup of Coffee a Day Make You Rich? December 30, 2025
  • Declare Email Bankruptcy June 12, 2025
  • Splitting The Atom May 17, 2025
  • I Used Claude.ai to Create a Discord Bot—Here’s What I Learned About the State of AI Code Writing October 11, 2024
  • I tracked my food every day for the last three weeks. Did I learn anything? June 29, 2024

Most Popular

  • Lost Yourself? How About a Walkabout. - 54,281 views
  • Doctrines on God and Jesus - 41,389 views
  • Aneuch - 38,378 views
  • New Design for de oppresso liber - 37,972 views
  • Why MUHDash Must Be Rewritten - 31,978 views

Any and all things posted or presented here reflect the personal views, opinions, philosophies, and whims of the poster, and in no way are affiliated or endorsed by his employer, family or other associations. See legal information.

Uncopyright © 2011-2026 Aaron J. Graves
 

Loading Comments...