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To do or not to do? To try or not to try? Most people will vote no, whether they consider themselves brave or not. Uncertainty and the prospect of failure can be very scary noises in the shadows. Most people will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.
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Bruce Pandolfini, Josh's original chess teacher, started their first class by taking him in reverse. The board was empty, except for three pieces in an endgame scenario: king and pawn against king.
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Having an unusually large goal is an adrenaline infusion that provides the endurance to overcome the inevitable trials and tribulations that go along with any goal. Realistic goals, goals restricted to the average ambition level, are uninspiring and will only fuel you through the first or second problem, at which point you throw in the towel. If the potential payoff is mediocre or average, so is your effort. I'll run through walls to get a ..
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I read about it in Buck Up, Suck Up . . . and Come Back When You Foul Up: 12 Winning Secrets from the War Room, written by James Carville and Paul Begala, the political strategists behind Bill Clinton's presidential campaign "war room." Here's the excerpt that stuck with me: Newt Gingrich is one of the most successful political leaders of our time. Yes, we disagreed with virtually everything he did, but this is a book about strategy, not id..
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But then I got into Joseph Campbell--The Power of Myth and The Hero with a Thousand Faces. Joseph Campbell was the first person to really open my eyes to [the] compassionate side of life, or of thought. . . . Campbell was the guy who really kind of put it all together for me, and not in a way I could put my finger on. . . . It made you just glad to be alive, [realizing] how vast this world is, and how similar and how different we are." * Mo..
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They tried to bury us. They didn't know we were seeds." --Mexican proverb There are some secrets we don't share because they're embarrassing. Like that time I met Naval Ravikant (page 546) by accidentally hitting on his girlfriend at a coffee shop? Oops. Or the time a celebrity panelist borrowed my laptop to project a boring corporate video, and a flicker of porn popped up--a la Fight Club--in front of a crowd of 400 people? Another good ex..
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Occasionally, a good idea comes to you first, if you're lucky. Usually, it only comes after a lot of bad ideas.
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The Director's Chair is with Francis Ford Coppola (The Godfather, Apocalypse Now, etc.), and Robert refers later to this quote from Francis: "Failure is not necessarily durable. Remember that the things that they fire you for when you are young are the same things that they give lifetime achievement awards for when you're old." ROBERT: "Even if I didn't sell Mariachi, I would have learned so much by doing that project. That was the idea--I'..
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The fishing is best where the fewest go, and the collective insecurity of the world makes it easy for people to hit home runs while everyone else is aiming for base hits. There is just less competition for bigger goals. Doing big things begins with asking for them properly.
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Do you have any quotes that you live your life by or think of often? "We are simultaneously gods and worms."--Abraham Maslow * Advice to your 25-or 30-year-old self? "I would encourage my younger self to just not be afraid, right? To realize that a lot of things that were--I don't want to say crippling anxieties, but--definitely ever-pervasive fears in my life growing up were unnecessary. A lot of time was wasted, a lot of energy was wasted..
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But if you don't cultivate 'turning it on' as a way of life in the little moments--and there are hundreds of times more little moments than big--then there's no chance in the big moments. . . . I believe that when you're not cultivating quality, you're essentially cultivating sloppiness.
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I do want to live a brave life. I do want to live in the arena. And if you're going to live in the arena, the only guarantee is you will get your ass kicked. . . . Daring greatly is being vulnerable. So when you ask yourself, 'Did I dare greatly today?' The big question I ask is, 'When I had the opportunity, did I choose courage over comfort?
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There are only four stories: a love story between two people, a love story between three people, the struggle for power, and the journey. Every single book that is in the bookstore deals with these four archetypes, these four themes.
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when you're going 10% bigger, you're competing against everybody. Everybody's trying to go 10% bigger. When you're trying to go 10 times bigger, you're there by yourself.
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buscar un mercado antes de idear un producto es mas inteligente que lo contrario.
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Greatness comes from humble beginnings; it comes from grunt work. It
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Clear the path for the people above you and you will eventually create a path for yourself.
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Do not work harder when the solution is working smarter. I
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I'm old-fashioned. Where I come from, people like to succeed. . . . When I was a founder, when I first started out, we didn't have the word 'pivot.' We didn't have a fancy word for it. We just called it a fuck-up.
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Being busy is a form of laziness--lazy thinking and indiscriminate action. Being busy is most often used as a guise for avoiding the few critically important but uncomfortable actions.
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Mas no es mejor, y dejar algo a medias suele ser 10 veces mejor que terminarlo. Acostumbrate a no terminar lo que sea aburrido o improductivo si un jefe no te lo pide.
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Don't overestimate the world and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think. And you are not alone.
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Our life is frittered away by detail. . . . Simplify, simplify. . . . A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone." --Henry David Thoreau, Walden"
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Love of bustle is not industry. --SENECA
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There were three reasons why we survived: We had no money, we had no technology, and we had no plan. Every dollar, we used very carefully.
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What is the worst advice you see or hear given in your trade or area of expertise? "' Follow your dreams.' It's impossible to do without self-knowledge, which takes years. You discover your 'dream' (or sense of purpose) in the very act of walking the path, which is guided by equal parts choice and chance."
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Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect." --Mark Twain. This"
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Oh, that wasn't a failure. That was a key moment of my development that I needed to take, and I can trust my instinct. I really can.
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Perfection is not when there is no more to add, but no more to take away. --ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY, pioneer
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you put creativity in everything, everything becomes available to you.' . . .
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Accept reality, but focus on the solution. Take that issue, take that setback, take that problem, and turn it into something good. Go forward. And, if you are part of a team, that attitude will spread throughout.
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You don't "succeed" because you have no weaknesses; you succeed because you find your unique strengths and focus on developing habits around them."
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Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece. --RALPH CHARELL
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Everyone struggles. Take solace in that.
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THE VALUE OF 5-10-MINUTE BREAKS The serial position effect refers to improved recall observed at the beginnings and ends of lists. Separately, these are called the primacy effect and recency effect, respectively. Memorizing a hypothetical list of 20 words, your recall might look something like this: This mid-list dip can be observed in study sessions as well, so a 90-minute session might resemble the below graph: We can dramatically improve..
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As I write this, I'm sitting in a cafe in Paris overlooking the Luxembourg Garden, just off of Rue Saint-Jacques. Rue Saint-Jacques is likely the oldest road in Paris, and it has a rich literary history. Victor Hugo lived a few blocks from where I'm sitting. Gertrude Stein drank coffee and F. Scott Fitzgerald socialized within a stone's throw. Hemingway wandered up and down the sidewalks, his books percolating in his mind, wine no doubt per..
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Not-to-do lists are often more effective than to-do lists for upgrading performance. The reason is simple. What you don't do determines what you can do.
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These world-class performers don't have superpowers. The rules they've crafted for themselves allow the bending of reality to such an extent that it may seem that way, but they've learned how to do this, and so can you. These "rules" are often uncommon habits and bigger questions. In a surprising number of cases, the power is in the absurd. The more absurd, the more "impossible" the question, the more profound the answers. Take, for instanc..
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The more absurd, the more "impossible" the question, the more profound the answers. Take, for instance, a question that serial billionaire Peter Thiel likes to ask himself and others: "If you have a 10-year plan of how to get [somewhere], you should ask: Why can't you do this in 6 months?" For purposes of illustration here, I might reword that to: "What might you do to accomplish your 10-year goals in the next 6 months, if you had a gun aga..
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For People Starting Out--Say "Yes" When Derek was 18, he was living in Boston, attending the Berklee College of Music. "I'm in this band where the bass player, one day in rehearsal, says, 'Hey man, my agent just offered me this gig--it's like $ 75 to play at a pig show in Vermont.' He rolls his eyes, and he says, 'I'm not gonna do it, do you want the gig?' I'm like, 'Fuck yeah, a paying gig?! Oh, my God! Yes!' So, I took the gig to go up to..
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There have been several points in my life--among them, just before I was fired from TrueSAN and just before I escaped the U.S. to avoid taking an Uzi into McDonald's--at which I saw my future as another fat man in a midlife-crisis BMW. I simply looked at those who were 15-20 years ahead of me on the same track, whether a director of sales or an entrepreneur in the same industry, and it scared the hell out of me.
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Dude, are you turning into the bald fat man in the red BMW convertible?
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The worst that could happen wasn't crashing and burning, it was accepting terminal boredom as a tolerable status quo. Remember--boredom is the enemy, not some abstract "failure."
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