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When setbacks come, we respond by working twice as hard.
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Don't let your reflection on the whole sweep of life crush you. Don't fill your mind with all the bad things that might still happen. Stay focused on the present situation and ask yourself why it's so unbearable and can't be survived." --MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 8.36"
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How you do anything is how you can do everything. We can always act right.
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June 16th NO SHAME IN NEEDING HELP "Don't be ashamed of needing help. You have a duty to fulfill just like a soldier on the wall of battle. So what if you are injured and can't climb up without another soldier's help?" --MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 7.7 No one ever said you were born with all the tools you'd need to solve every problem you'd face in life. In fact, as a newborn you were practically helpless. Someone helped you then, and you..
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George Clooney spent his first years in Hollywood getting rejected at auditions. He wanted the producers and directors to like him, but they didn't and it hurt and he blamed the system for not seeing how good he was. This perspective should sound familiar. It's the dominant viewpoint for the rest of us on job interviews, when we pitch clients, or try to connect with an attractive stranger in a coffee shop. We subconsciously submit to what S..
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Steve Jobs was famous for what observers called his "reality distortion field." Part motivational tactic, part sheer drive and ambition, this field made him notoriously dismissive of phrases such as "It can't be done" or "We need more time." Having learned early in life that reality was falsely hemmed in by rules and compromises that people had been taught as children, Jobs had a much more aggressive idea of what was or wasn't possible. To ..
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This is why we shouldn't listen too closely to what other people say (or to what the voice in our head says, either). We'll find ourselves erring on the side of accomplishing nothing. Be open. Question. Though of course we don't control reality, our perceptions do influence it. One
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how do you and I usually deal with an impossible deadline handed down from someone above us? We complain. We get angry. We question. How could they? What's the point? Who do they think I am? We look for a way out and feel sorry for ourselves. Of course, none of these things affect the objective reality of that deadline. Not in the way that pushing forward can. Jobs refused to tolerate people who didn't believe in their own abilities to succ..
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Jobs learned to reject the first judgments and the objections that spring out of them because those objections are almost always rooted in fear. When he ordered a special kind of glass for the first iPhone, the manufacturer was aghast at the aggressive deadline. "We don't have capacity," they said. "Don't be afraid," Jobs replied. "You can do it. Get your mind around it. You can do it." Nearly overnight, manufacturers transformed their faci..
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Well, what if the "other" party is wrong? What if conventional wisdom is too conservative? It's this all-too-common impulse to complain, defer, and then give up that holds us back. An"
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The Blitzkrieg strategy was designed to exploit the flinch of the enemy--he must collapse at the sight of what appears to be overwhelming force. Its success depends completely on this response. This military strategy works because the set-upon troops see the offensive force as an enormous obstacle bearing down on them. This
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It's one thing to not be overwhelmed by obstacles, or discouraged or upset by them. This is something that few are able to do. But after you have controlled your emotions, and you can see objectively and stand steadily, the next step becomes possible: a mental flip, so you're looking not at the obstacle but at the opportunity within it. As
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you should try it the next time someone intimidates you or makes you feel insecure. See them in your mind, grunting, groaning, and awkward in their private life - just like the rest of us.
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While you're sleeping, traveling, attending meetings, or messing around online, the same thing is happening to you. You're going soft. You're not aggressive enough. You're not pressing ahead.
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And that's the final part: Stay moving, always. Like Earhart, Rommel knew from history that those who attack problems and life with the most initiative and energy usually win. He was always pushing ahead, keeping the stampede on the more cautious British forces to devastating effect.
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It's time you understand that the world is telling you something with each and every failure and action. It's feedback--giving you precise instructions on how to improve, it's trying to wake you up from your cluelessness. It's trying to teach you something. Listen. Lessons
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The great psychologist Viktor Frankl, survivor of three concentration camps, found presumptuousness in the age-old question: "What is the meaning of life?" As though it is someone else's responsibility to tell you. Instead, he said, the world is asking you that question. And it's your job to answer with your actions. In"
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you've got to do something very difficult. Don't focus on that. Instead break it down into pieces. Simply do what you need to do right now. And do it well. And then move on to the next thing. Follow the process and not the prize. The
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Saban's process is exclusively this--existing in the present, taking it one step at a time, not getting distracted by anything else. Not the other team, not the scoreboard or the crowd. The process is about finishing. Finishing games. Finishing workouts. Finishing film sessions. Finishing drives. Finishing reps. Finishing plays. Finishing blocks. Finishing the smallest task you have right in front of you and finishing it well. Whether
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Where little danger is apprehended, the more the enemy will be unprepared and consequently there is the fairest prospect of success.
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Freedom? That's easy. It's in your choices. Happiness? That's easy. It's in your choices. Respect of your peers? That too is in the choices you make.
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Take a step back, then go around the problem. Find some leverage. Approach from what is called the "line of least expectation." What's your first instinct when faced with a challenge? Is it to outspend the competition? Argue with people in an attempt to change long-held opinions? Are you trying to barge through the front door? Because the back door, side doors, and windows may have been left wide open. Whatever"
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Part of the reason why a certain skill often seems so effortless for great masters is not just because they've mastered the process--they really are doing less than the rest of us who don't know any better. They choose to exert only calculated force where it will be effective, rather than straining and struggling with pointless attrition tactics. As someone
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Or you create an alterative with so much support from other people that the opposition voluntarily abandons its views and joins your camp. The
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Believe me, it's better to produce the balance-sheet of your own life than that of the grain market." --SENECA, ON THE BREVITY OF LIFE, 18.3b T"
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Seneca observes how often powerful people are slaves to their money, to their positions, to their mistresses, even--as was legal in Rome--to their slaves. "No"
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What you must do is learn how to press forward precisely when everyone around you sees disaster. It
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him. "You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. Things that we had postponed for too long, that were long-term, are now immediate and must be dealt with. [A] crisis provides the opportunity for us to do things that you could not do before." If"
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Ordinary people shy away from negative situations, just as they do with failure. They do their best to avoid trouble. What great people do is the opposite. They are their best in these situations. They turn personal tragedy or misfortune--really anything, everything--to their advantage. But this crisis in front of you? You're wasting it feeling sorry for yourself, feeling tired or disappointed. You forget: Life speeds on the bold and favors..
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Zeno would also say that nothing is more hostile to a firm grasp on knowledge than self-deception." --DIOGENES LAERTIUS, LIVES OF THE EMINENT PHILOSOPHERS, 7.23"
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Rommel, for instance, was renowned for his Fronter-fuhring, his sixth sense for the decisive point in battle. He had an acute ability to feel--even in the heat of the moment--the precise instance when going on the offensive would be most effective. It's what allowed him to, repeatedly and often unbelievably, snatch victory from the jaws of defeat. Where others saw disaster or, at best, simply the normal noise and dust of a battle, Rommel se..
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Great commanders look for decision points. For it is bursts of energy directed at decisive points that break things wide open. They
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If action is what we do when we still have some agency over our situation, the will is what we depend on when agency has all but disappeared.
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If someone we knew took traffic signals personally, we would judge them insane. Yet
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Sabes cual es la peor decision que se puede tomar en marketing? Empezar a trabajar en un producto que no quiere nadie. Durante
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which is to say, stand with the philosopher, or else with the mob!" --EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 3.15.13 W" --
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listen to Marcus Aurelius's empowering call to "get active in your own rescue--if you care for yourself at all--and do it while you can."
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the best way to get to Product Market Fit is by starting with an "MVP" and improving it based on feedback--as opposed to what many traditional marketers do, which is to try to launch with what we think is our final product."
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You must realize: Nothing makes us feel this way; we choose to give in to such feelings. Or, like Rockefeller, choose not to.
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In every situation, that which blocks our path actually presents a new path with a new part of us.
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It doesn't make you a bad person to want to be remembered. To want to make it to the top. To provide for yourself and your family. After all, that's all part of the allure. There is a balance. Soccer coach Tony Adams expresses it well. Play for the name on the front of the jersey, he says, and they'll remember the name on the back.
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humility
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Focusing exclusively on what is in our power magnifies and enhances our power.
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But what is philosophy? Doesn't it simply mean preparing ourselves for what may come? Don't you understand that really amounts to saying that if I would so prepare myself to endure, then let anything happen that will? Otherwise, it would be like the boxer exiting the ring because he took some punches. Actually, you can leave the boxing ring without consequence, but what advantage would come from abandoning the pursuit of wisdom? So, what sh..
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Does what happened keep you from acting with justice, generosity, self-control, sanity, prudence, honesty, humility, straightforwardness? Nope.
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