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The bottom line is that you only have the rights you fight for.
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1,000,000 in the bank isn't the fantasy. The fantasy is the lifestyle of complete freedom it supposedly allows.
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Remember--boredom is the enemy, not some abstract "failure."
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Information is useless if it is not applied to something important or if you will forget it before you have a chance to apply it.
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Role models who push us to exceed our limits, physical training that removes our spare tires, and risks that expand our sphere of comfortable action are all examples of eustress--stress that is healthful and the stimulus for growth.
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By working only when you are most effective, life is both more productive and more enjoyable. It's the perfect example of having your cake and eating it, too.
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The goal is not to simply eliminate the bad, which does nothing more than leave you with a vacuum, but to pursue and experience the best in the world.
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Never automate something that can be eliminated, and never delegate something that can be automated or streamlined. Otherwise, you waste someone else's time instead of your own, which now wastes your hard-earned cash. How's that for incentive to be effective and efficient?
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The most important trick to be happy is to realize that happiness is a choice that you make and a skill that you develop. You choose to be happy, and then you work at it. It's just like building muscles.
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Productivity is for robots. What humans are going to be really good at is asking questions, being creative, and experiences." Kevin Kelly"
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Different is better when it is more effective or more fun.
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Alternating periods of activity and rest is necessary to survive, let alone thrive. Capacity, interest, and mental endurance all wax and wane. Plan accordingly.
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If you spend your time, worth $20-25 per hour, doing something that someone else will do for $10 per hour, it's simply a poor use of resources.
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WHEN 99% OF PEOPLE DOUBT YOU, YOU'RE EITHER GRAVELY WRONG OR ABOUT TO MAKE HISTORY.
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Pacifists become militants. Freedom fighters become tyrants. Blessings become curses. Help becomes hindrance. More becomes less.
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Learn to be difficult when it counts
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Losers have goals. Winners have systems.
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Doing something unimportant well does not make it important.
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Pareto's Law can be summarized as follows: 80% of the outputs result from 20% of the inputs.
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It is predicated on the assumption that you dislike what you are doing during the most physically capable years of your life. This is a nonstarter--nothing can justify that sacrifice.
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Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers." --Pierre-Marc-Gaston"
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Simon received the Nobel Prize in 1978 for his contribution to organizational decision making: It is impossible to have perfect and complete information at any given time to make a decision.
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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.
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The golden years become lower-middle-class life revisited. That's a bittersweet ending.
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Desire is a contract you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want.
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If you are nervous about making the jump or simply putting it off out of fear of the unknown, here is your antidote. Write down your answers to these questions, and keep in mind that thinking a lot will not prove as fruitful or as prolific as simply brain vomiting on the page. Write and do not edit - aim for volume. Spend a few minutes on each answer. 1. Define your nightmare, the absolute worst that could happen if you did what you are con..
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I will take as a given that, for most people, somewhere between six and seven billion of them, the perfect job is the one that takes the least time.
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Creativity is an infinite resource. The more you spend,the more you have.
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Investing in yourself is the most important investment you'll ever make in your life. . . . There's no financial investment that'll ever match it, because if you develop more skill, more ability, more insight, more capacity, that's what's going to really provide economic freedom. . . . It's those skill sets that really make that happen." This"
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If you let your learning lead to knowledge, you become a fool. If you let your learning lead to action, you become wealthy.
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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. --GEORGE BERNARD SHAW, Maxims for Revolutionists
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If you let pride stop you, you will hate life
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People are fond of using the its not what you know, its who you know adage as an excuse for inaction, as if all successful people are born with powerful friends. Nonsense.
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Happiness is wanting what you have.
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Often, all that stands between you and what you want is a better set of questions.
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If this is the only thing I accomplish today, will I be satisfied with my day?
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What advice would you give to a smart, driven college student about to enter the "real world"? What advice should they ignore? I'm probably hopelessly out of date but my advice is get real-world experience: Be a cowboy. Drive a truck. Join the Marine Corps. Get out of the hypercompetitive "life hack" frame of mind. I'm 74. Believe me, you've got all the time in the world. You've got ten lifetimes ahead of you. Don't worry about your friends..
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I always advise young people to become good public speakers (top 25%). Anyone can do it with practice. If you add that talent to any other, suddenly you're the boss of the people who have only one skill.
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here's my 8-step process for maximizing efficacy (doing the right things): Wake up at least 1 hour before you have to be at a computer screen. Email is the mind-killer. Make a cup of tea (I like pu-erh) and sit down with a pen/pencil and paper. Write down the 3 to 5 things--and no more--that are making you the most anxious or uncomfortable. They're often things that have been punted from one day's to-do list to the next, to the next, to the..
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If you ran into an asshole in the morning you ran into an asshole. If you run into assholes all day, you're the asshole.
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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.
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By using money as the scapegoat and work as our all-consuming routine, we are able to conveniently disallow ourselves to do otherwise: 'John, I'd love to talk about the gaping void I feel in my life, the hopelessness that hits me like a punch in the eye every time I start my computer in the morning, but I have so much work to do! I've got at least three hours of unimportant email to reply to before calling prospects who said 'no' yesterday...
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It's amazing how someone's IQ seems to double as soon as you give them responsibility and indicate that you trust them.
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Using people to leverage a refined process multiplies production; using people as a solution to a poor process multiplies problems.
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