- The best handle the worst.
- The best overcame the worst.
- The best were once the worst.
- The best learn to help the worst.
- The best learn to ignore the worst.
- The best have a lot more character than the worst.
- The best keep going when the worst have quit long ago.
- The best have a mindset that the worst can only dream about.
- The best have an internal drive that makes the worst look like they have no drive at all.
- The best take failure and make it work for them, not against them, as the worst do.
- The best have greater consistency, resilience under fatigue, attention to detail, and willingness to learn and outwork others.
3D: Daily Dose of Discernment
© 2026 by Kevin Everett FitzMaurice. Daily quotations cover topics crucial to your emotional and behavioral health, including emotional and psychological skills, psychotherapy, psychology, philosophy, spirituality, General Semantics, Eastern psychology and philosophy, meditation, flow, social commentary, responsibility, authenticity, identity, and the self. Visit https://kevinfitzmaurice.com or Amazon and Google Play for Kevin's 73 books in ebook, paperback, hardback, and audiobook formats.
Friday, March 27, 2026
Best Over Worst: 03-27-2026
Thursday, March 26, 2026
Mental Objects Murder: 03-26-2026
- Mental objects dehumanize you.
- Mental objects reify and robotize you.
- Mental objects objectify and ossify you.
- Mental objects fixate, fossilize, and freeze you.
- Mental objects calcify, characterize, concretize, and crystallize you.
- You and others have no self composed of knowledge-things, memory-objects, mental-objects, mental-things, self-constructions, semantic-objects, thought-things, verbal-objects, or any of the other tools that the ego uses under its modern name of self-esteem.
Wednesday, March 25, 2026
Restrain Reactions: 03-25-2026
- Pause, step back, and restrain your reaction.
- Pause, step back, and restrain your reaction to improve it.
- Pause, step back, and restrain your reaction to avoid conflict.
- Pause, step back, and restrain your reaction to avoid overreacting.
- Pause, step back, and restrain your reaction to avoid unnecessary risks.
- Pause, step back, and restrain your reaction to avoid harming someone.
Tuesday, March 24, 2026
Games Mental Objects Play: 03-24-2026
- Mental objects are your enemies that care about how you appear to them, not God.
- Mental objects are your enemies that always use the same playbook: whine, blame, and damn.
- Mental objects are your enemies that talk high and mighty and never worry about their results.
- Mental objects are your enemies that accuse you of the wrongs they have committed and plan to commit.
- Mental objects are your enemies that put self-righteousness and pride over ethics and doing good.
- Mental objects are your enemies that project their evil onto you and then commit greater evil in the name of overcoming your evil.
- Mental objects are your enemies that find your tiniest injustices to advocate for while defending and protecting their worst injustices.
- Mental objects are your enemies that emotionally blackmail and guilt-trip you into doing what they want, even when it makes everything worse.
- Mental objects are your enemies that preach disgrace, not reconciliation, recovery, redemption, rehabilitation, overcoming, and forgiveness.
- Mental objects are your enemies that play the negative conscience of the world while seeking their own fame and fortune at the expense of you and everyone else.
Monday, March 23, 2026
Mental Objects Cannot Admit Error: 03-23-2026
- Mental objects are enemies that are illogical without awareness.
- Mental objects are enemies that are unthinking because they cannot think.
- Mental objects are enemies that are unreasonable because they cannot reason.
- Mental objects are enemies that are unethical because they cannot follow any ethics.
- Mental objects are enemies that are unfair in their approaches, responses, and tactics.
- Mental objects are enemies that cannot admit errors or mistakes because they have no conscience.
- Mental objects are enemies that cannot learn from experience because they have no self-awareness.
- Mental objects are enemies that are uncaring because they cannot care, meaning all appeals to emotion and empathy are ignored.
- What is said about mental objects is true of people who base themselves and their beliefs on them.
- When you argue with someone who exhibits the characteristics of mental objects, you waste your time on a dead person.
Sunday, March 22, 2026
The Curse of Better: 03-22-2026
- You lose your soul wanting to be better than others.
- When you want to be better than others, you live for your ego, not God.
- You lose your life’s meaning and purpose when you seek to be better than others.
- You strive for human approval, not God’s, because you want to be better than others.
- When you seek to be better than others, you also, in darkness, seek for others to be worse.
Saturday, March 21, 2026
Mental Objects Are Not Intelligent: 03-21-2026
- Stop regarding mental objects as thinking.
- Stop regarding mental objects as judgment.
- Stop regarding mental objects as reasoning.
- Stop regarding mental objects as reflection.
- Stop regarding mental objects as cogitating.
- Stop regarding mental objects as processing.
- Stop regarding mental objects as knowledge.
- Stop regarding mental objects as viewpoints.
- Stop regarding mental objects as understanding.
- For more information on mental objects, please read Human Nature Confesses, The Three, or Fast-Facts: Semantics.
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