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The Beginning Is "heart work," not "head work" "So much of the job is more emotion and 'heart work' than it is 'head work.' The head comes in after, to look at what the heart has presented and to organize it. But the initial inspiration comes from a different place, and it's not the head, and it's not an intellectual activity."
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Why Superbad Worked Superbad worked because Seth and Evan wrote about exactly what they were experiencing at the time. Evan explains, "At the time, all we knew was that we really wanted to get laid, we weren't getting laid, and we weren't supercool." It pays to write what you know. Seth started doing standup when he was 13 years old. He adds: "That's something that came from standup comedy. There's a comic named Darryl Lenox who still perfo..
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What is the best or most worthwhile investment you've made? "The best thing I ever did, besides getting sober 25 years ago, was shelving my restaurant career in 2002, selling my shares in my restaurant, and working for free for a local radio station, magazine, and TV station in an effort to create my own media syllabus. I wanted to create a product with a massive platform, and try to make a difference in the world, and I couldn't do it with..
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What are you putting off out of fear? Usually, what we most fear doing is what we most need to do. That phone call, that conversation, whatever the action might be--it is fear of unknown outcomes that prevents us from doing what we need to do. Define the worst case, accept it, and do it. I'll repeat something you might consider tattooing on your forehead: What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do. As I have heard said, a pe..
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My definition of 'love' is being willing to die for someone who you yourself want to kill. That, in my experience, is kind of the deal.
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When you are just starting out, we can be sure of a few fundamental realities: 1) You're not nearly as good or as important as you think you are; 2) you have an attitude that needs to be readjusted; 3) most of what you think you know or most of what you learned in books or in school is out of date or wrong.
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What's on the other side of fear?" His answer is always, "Nothing."
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Most breakthroughs in performance (and appearance) enhancement start with animals and go through the following adoption curve: Racehorses - AIDS patients (because of muscle wasting) and bodybuilders - elite athletes - rich people - the rest of us The last jump from the rich to the general public can take 10-20 years, if it happens at all. It often doesn't. I
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What Does It Feel Like? "If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present." --Lao Tzu"
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Different is better when it is more effective or more fun. If
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This idea that we're either courageous or chicken shit is just not true, because most of us are afraid and brave at the exact same moment, all day long.
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Asymmetrical risks and rewards: "Every single one of them is obsessed with asymmetrical risk and reward. . . . It simply means they're looking to use the least amount of risk to get the max amount of upside, and that's what they live for. . . . [They don't believe they] have to take huge risks for huge rewards. Say, 'How do I get no risk and get huge rewards?' and because you ask a question continuously and you believe [there's an] answer, ..
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I think it's an analogy for that choice we all have in life: Are you going to fulfill your potential? Or, are you just going to give into the peer pressure of the moment and become nothing?
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I'm there to learn. I'm not there to win; I'm there to learn, because then I'll win, eventually. . . .
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If you stress-test the boundaries and experiment with the "impossibles," you'll quickly discover that most limitations are a fragile collection of socially reinforced rules you can choose to break at any time."
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Trying to get everyone to like you is a sign of mediocrity. You'll avoid the tough decisions, and you'll avoid confronting the people who need to be confronted."--Colin Powell"
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In place of the scale, I use DEXA scans, a BodyMetrix home ultrasound device, or
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If you've got enough money to solve the problem, you don't have the problem." In"
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2,000-3,000 PEOPLE, NOT GENERAL FAME This is one of the messages Eric burned into my brain last year, and it's guided many decisions since. We were sitting in a large soaking tub talking about the world (as mathematicians and human guinea pigs do in San Francisco), and he said: "General fame is overrated. You want to be famous to 2,000 to 3,000 people you handpick." I'm paraphrasing, but the gist is that you don't need or want mainstream fa..
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Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: "Is this the condition that I feared?" --SENECA"
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First of all, if we're serious all the time, we'll wear out before we get the truly serious stuff done. Second, if this book were all stern looks and no winks, all productivity and no grab-assing, you'd remember very little. I agree with Tony Robbins (page 210) that information without emotion isn't retained.
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I can wait" - Being able to plan long-term, play the long game, and not misallocate your resources. "I can fast" - Being able to withstand difficulties and disaster. Training yourself to be uncommonly resilient and have a high pain tolerance."
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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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