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This list gathers figures who come up in the archive too rarely for a page of their own.

List of other figures
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Five figures who surface in GritCult's posts too rarely for a page of their own, mostly through borrowed quotations or a single striking fact: Kafka, Kierkegaard, Ricky Gervais, Rockefeller and Tolstoy.

Kafka

GritCult uses Kafka mainly as a cautionary tale about self-doubt: a great writer who, as he told it, burned most of his own work and published nothing while alive. He also quoted Kafka on having hardly anything in common with himself.

Comes up 5 times in the archive, from 17 July 2018 to 30 August 2025.

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30 August 202525412Kafka...Post imageView
14 December 20247124today i learned that franz kafka considered a great writer,

burned 90%+ of his own work because he doubted his own ability

and didnt publish anything while he was alive

imagine how different the world would be if more people believed in themselves.		View
9 September 2018313"I have hardly anything in common with myself
and should stand very quietly in a corner,

content that I can breathe."

- Kafka		View
17 July 201803on ai controlled society - the blind spots and effects on those who fit outside the norms of their society, ie minorities or wrongthinkers

ends up being

either

Orwellian or Kafkaesque		View
24 December 202001@ILVATE5 KafkaView

Kierkegaard

Kierkegaard supplies GritCult with short lines on authenticity, chiefly that the most common form of despair is not being who you are, posted in 2021 and again in 2023, and the call to face the facts of being what you are.

Comes up 7 times in the archive, from 26 January 2018 to 10 November 2023.

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15 August 202153212The most common form of despair is not being who you are.
—- kierkegaard		View
10 November 202321153The most common form of despair is not being who you are.
—- kierkegaard		View
17 July 2023638KIERKEGAARD’S BIRTHDAY IS TODAY. SOME DAY, HE SAID, COMMUNICATION WOULD BECOME INSTANTANEOUS, BUT PEOPLE WOULD HAVE NOTHING TO SAY…View
28 April 2021326FACE THE FACTS OF BEING WHAT YOU ARE, FOR THAT IS WHAT CHANGES WHAT YOU ARE. SOREN KIERKEGAARDView
7 September 2021114FACE THE FACTS OF BEING WHAT YOU ARE, FOR THAT IS WHAT CHANGES WHAT YOU ARE. SOREN KIERKEGAARDView
29 January 201801What I really need is to get clear about what I must do, not what I must know, except insofar as knowledge precedes every act. KierkegaardView
26 January 201800Honesty is difficult. It is easier to hide in the crowed, and to drown one's own guilt in the guilt of everyone else. KierkegaardView

Ricky Gervais

Gervais is GritCult's proof that it is never too late: he marvelled that the comedian worked dead-end office jobs and only began the career he is known for at 40, and drew the lesson never to give up.

Comes up 3 times in the archive, from 28 February 2019 to 8 February 2025.

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8 February 20252092,622Still astonishes me that Ricky Gervais was 39 when he started. His career he is known for started at 40. Till then he was working dead end shitty office jobs.

Most the world thinks you start ending things at that age.

It’s never over. Never give up. Never kill yourself.		View
8 February 2022214This is also very similar to the gervais principle. Social status and identity politics becoming more important as mass adoption increases. More people adopting also@means more people who are motivated by power and social power. Psychopaths.View
28 February 201902@BenjaminGJW @navreigns you'd also like this by @Meaningness

it expands on the gervais principle by @vgr who i used as a inspiration for my soulja boy principle,

h/t @0x49fa98 @simpolism

but yeah tribalism via biology has been a cornerstone of my operating heuristic.		View

Rockefeller

Rockefeller gives GritCult business maxims: action solves everything, faith is the father of success and, most shared of all, the line that the strongest prison is your own idea of yourself. He also put the Titan biography on his holiday reading list.

Comes up 6 times in the archive, from 22 March 2021 to 17 October 2025.

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17 October 20256525,201Rockefeller once said

“the strongest prison you will be held in, is your own idea of yourself.”		View
3 June 202583592Action solves everything.

- John D Rockefeller		View
1 October 202523243Faith is the father of success

- Rockefeller.		View
14 December 2021316DON'T BE AFRAID TO GIVE UP THE GOOD TO GO FOR THE GREAT. - JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERView
24 December 20242169Every year; between christmas and new years, i like to read 1 book a day

this year i will try to read:

bronze age mindset - bap
the cultured thug - bowden
steve jobs - biography - already reading
trump: art of the deal
elon musk - biography
titan - rockefeller biography		View
22 March 202125Someone have a resource that explains how rockefeller bought up his competition and the tactics used?View

Tolstoy

Tolstoy reaches GritCult through repeated quotation, above all the line that everyone thinks of changing the world but no one thinks of changing himself. He also quoted Tolstoy's warning that cheap newspapers and bad books are an attractive intellectual poison.

Comes up 5 times in the archive, from 12 April 2018 to 12 June 2023.

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24 October 20211234EVERYONE THINKS OF CHANGING THE WORLD, BUT NO ONE THINKS OF CHANGING HIMSELF. - LEO TOLSTOYView
26 April 2021520EVERYONE THINKS OF CHANGING THE WORLD, BUT NO ONE THINKS OF CHANGING HIMSELF. - LEO TOLSTOYView
12 June 2023230"THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN REAL MATERIAL POISON AND INTELLECTUAL POISON IS THAT MOST MATERIAL POISON IS DISGUSTING TO THE TASTE, BUT INTELLECTUAL POISON, WHICH TAKES THE FORM OF CHEAP NEWSPAPERS OR BAD BOOKS, CAN UNFORTUNATELY SOMETIMES BE ATTRACTIVE." - LEO TOLSTOYView
20 November 202118"ALL HAPPY FAMILIES RESEMBLE ONE ANOTHER, BUT EACH UNHAPPY FAMILY IS UNHAPPY IN ITS OWN WAY." - LEO TOLSTOYView
12 April 201802he did say "thousands of years" which is a falsehood

civilisation (which started in middle east) is about 10-15k years old
history is about 6k years old (ancient egypt)

he could have said the same about *ANY* region in the world, they have all had periods of war and peace		View

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