Losers have goals. Winners have systems.
Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.” – Pierre-Marc-Gaston.
If you let your learning lead to knowledge, you become a fool. If you let your learning lead to action, you become wealthy.
Never let a good crisis go to waste. It’s the universe challenging you to learn something new and rise to the next level of your potential.
Desire is a contract you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want.
When You Complain, Nobody Wants to Help You.
Often, all that stands between you and what you want is a better set of questions.
Ours is a culture where we wear our ability to get by on very little sleep as a kind of badge of honor that symbolizes work ethic, or toughness, or some other virtue – but really, it’s a total profound failure of priorities and of self-respect.
Life punishes the vague wish and rewards the specific ask. After all, conscious thinking is largely asking and answering questions in your own head. If you want confusion and heartache, ask vague questions. If you want uncommon clarity and results, ask uncommonly clear questions.
Give vulnerability a shot. Give discomfort its due. Because I think he or she who is willing to be the most uncomfortable is not only the bravest, but rises the fastest.
To “fix” someone’s problem, you very often just need to empathically listen to them. Even.
Everyone is fighting a battle you know nothing about. The heroes in this book are no different. Everyone struggles. Take solace in that.
When I wake up in the morning, I’m thinking to myself: What can I do to be ready for that moment, which is coming? That propels me out of bed.
What problem do you face every day that nobody has solved yet?” or “What is a great company no one has started?” I will.
Don’t do things that you know are morally wrong. Not because someone is watching, but because you are. Self-esteem is just the reputation that you have with yourself. You’ll always know.
Fighting emotions is like flailing in quicksand – it only makes things worse. Sometimes, the most proactive “defense” is a mental nod and wink.
We do not rise to the level of our expectations. We fall to the level of our training.” – Archilochus.
You always have three options. You can change it, you can accept it, or you can leave it. What is not a good option is to sit around wishing you would change it but not changing it, wishing you would leave it but not leaving it, and not accepting it. It’s that struggle, that aversion, that is responsible for most of our misery. The phrase that I probably use the most to myself in my head is just one word: accept.
You must want to be a butterfly so badly, you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.
When you’re thinking of how to make your business bigger, it’s tempting to try to think all the big thoughts, the world-changing, massive-action plans. But please know that it’s often the tiny details that really thrill someone enough to make them tell all their friends about you.