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The most important thing I've learned about nutrition is you need to deserve your carbs
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Three to five billion new consumers are coming online in the next 6 years. Holy cow, that's extraordinary. What do they need? What
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Let it go. I do mean to take life very seriously, but I need to take things like playfulness and purposelessness very seriously. . . . This is not meant to be light, but I think I would have somehow encouraged myself to let go a little bit more and hang in there and not pretend to know where this is all going. You don't need to know where it's all going.
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Stay humble or get humbled.
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Law 11: "No" simply means begin again at one level higher."
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Dealing with the temporary frustration of not making progress is an integral part of the path towards excellence. In
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Have you ever watched kids On a merry-go-round? Or listened to the rain Slapping on the ground? Ever followed a butterfly's erratic flight? Or gazed at the sun into the fading night? You better slow down. Don't dance so fast. Time is short. The music won't last. Do you run through each day On the fly? When you ask: How are you? Do you hear the reply? When the day is done, do you lie in your bed With the next hundred chores Running through y..
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On the Advantage of Cultivating Beginner's Mind "Experience often deeply embeds the assumptions that need to be questioned in the first place. When you have a lot of experience with something, you don't notice the things that are new about it. You don't notice the idiosyncrasies that need to be tweaked. You don't notice where the gaps are, what's missing, or what's not really working."
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Interest and Energy Are Cyclical.
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1) Define a to-do list and (2) define a not-to-do list. In general terms, there are but two questions:
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SCOTTY: She's all yours, sir. All systems automated and ready. A chimpanzee and two trainees could run her! CAPTAIN KIRK: Thank you, Mr. Scott. I'll try not to take that personally. --STAR TREK
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all information and interruptions that are irrelevant, unimportant, or unactionable.
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his favorite
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Walden
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Pricing low is shortsighted, because someone else is always willing to sacrifice more profit margin and drive you both bankrupt.
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Do not expect work to fill a void that non-work relationships and activities should.
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Be focused on work or focused on something else, never in-between.
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Usually, what we most fear doing is what we most need to do.
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While in Kolkata, India, for this book, I stayed at the iconic Oberoi Grand. The concierge explained to me the hotel's hiring philosophy: "You can't bend mature bamboo. But if you get it as a young shoot, you can bend it, mold it. We hire them between the ages of 18 and 21 so we can mold them." The concierge was one of only 15 double golden key (Clef d'Or) concierges in India, and he knew that sometimes having no experience is a huge advant..
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Answer me this: would you work harder to earn $100 or avoid losing $100? The smiley optimist says the former, but if research from the Center for Experimental Social Science at New York University is any indication, fear of loss is the home-run winner. Experimental groups given $15 and then told the $15 would be rescinded if they lost a subsequent auction routinely overbid the most. Groups offered $15 if they won weren't nearly as "committe..
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The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet. --WILLIAM GIBSON,
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The Silver Spoon, the best-selling Italian cookbook of the last 50 years.
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It is possible to vastly compress most learning. In a surprising number of cases, it is possible to do something in 1-10 months that is assumed to take 1-10 years. -The more you compress things, the more physical limiters become a bottleneck. All learning is physically limited. The brain is dependent on finite quantities of neurotransmitters, memories require REM and non-REM (NREM) sleep for consolidation, etc. The learning graph is not un..
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Everything popular is wrong.
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Doughnuts are a normal part of a healthy, balanced diet. --Brooke Smith, Krispy Kreme spokeswoman
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Morality is simply the attitude we adopt toward people we personally dislike. --OSCAR WILDE
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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,
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Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?" "That depends a good deal on where you want to get to," said the Cat. "I don't much care where ..." said Alice. "Then it doesn't matter which way you go," said the Cat. --LEWIS CARROLL, Alice in Wonderland"
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I also figured out that I could use my workouts as a form of meditation because I concentrate so much on the muscle, I have my mind inside the bicep when I do my curls. I have my mind inside the pectoral muscles when I do my bench press. I'm really inside, and it's like I gain a form of meditation, because you have no chance of thinking or concentrating on anything else at that time.
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What might you do to accomplish your 10-year goals in the next 6 months, if you had a gun against your head?
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I also have in mind that seemingly wealthy, but most terribly impoverished class of all, who have accumulated dross, but know not how to use it, or get rid of it, and thus have forged their own golden or silver fetters. --HENRY DAVID THOREAU (1817-1862)
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What bullshit excuses do you have for not going after whatever it is that you want? Please,
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First, let's focus on those critical first steps. Define three steps for each dream that will get you closer to its actualization. Set actions--simple, well-defined actions--for now, tomorrow (complete before 11 A.M.) and the day after (again completed before 11 A.M.). Once you have three steps for each of the four goals, complete the three actions in the "now" column. Do it now. Each should be simple enough to do in five minutes or less. I..
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Eat decent quantities of fat at each larger meal. Saturated fat is fine if meat is untreated with antibiotics and hormones. * Spend at least 30 minutes eating lunch and dinner. Breakfasts can be smaller and thus consumed more quickly. * Experiment with cinnamon and lemon juice just prior to or during meals. * Use the techniques in "Damage Control" for accidental and planned binges. Keep in mind that the techniques in that chapter will help ..
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Be willing to fail or succeed on who you really are. Don't ever try to be anything else. What you are is good enough for whatever it is you're doing.
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Life is too short to be busy.
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Fear itself is quite fear-inducing. Most intelligent people in the world dress it up as something else: optimistic denial.
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For all of the most important things, the timing always sucks.
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Learn to confront the challenges of the real world, rather than resort to the protective womb of
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In a world of distraction, single-tasking is a superpower.
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Aim for the Heart, Not the Head "Lesson number one, when people ask me what [interviewing] tips would I give, is aim for the heart, not the head. Once you get the heart, you can go to the head. Once you get the heart and the head, then you'll have a pathway to the soul."
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something like, "You're totally right. I never thought about that."
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In any situation in life, you only have three options. You always have three options. You can change it, you can accept it, or you can leave it. What
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People-pleasing is a form of assholery,' which
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