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what all of this comes down to is whether you are on offense or defense. I
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The danger of maps, capable assistants, and planning is that you may end up living your life as planned. If you do, your potential cannot possibly exceed your expectations.
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Study the Opposites In addition to studying his competition in tech and early-stage investing, Marc studies value investors on the completely opposite side of the spectrum, such as Warren Buffett and Seth Klarman. This doesn't mean they invest in the same types of companies; rather, the synergy is related to first principles.
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By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day. --ROBERT FROST,
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We're wired completely opposite in that sense. Basically, he's betting against change. We're betting for change. When he makes a mistake, it's because something changes that he didn't expect. When we make a mistake, it's because something doesn't change that we thought would. We could not be more different in that way. But
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Adversity doesn't create character; it reveals it.
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There are no statues erected to critics.
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I've got some athletes who do best on 70% carbs, 20% protein, 10% fat. But they deserve their carbohydrates. They've got a great pancreas, they're in- sulin-sensitive, blah, blah, blah, they've got a lot of muscle mass. But some athletes, they're allowed 10 licks of a dried prune every 6 months. That's all they deserve and that's all they'll get. And after 6 months, they're actually al- lowed to look at calendar pictures of cakes once ..
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It's usually better to keep old resolutions than to make new ones.
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Try it--write down a precise sequence of curse words that takes 7 to 10 seconds to read. Then, before a creative work session of some type, read it quickly and loudly like you're casting a spell or about to go postal. Eric also finds late nights, around 3 a.m., to be ideal for deep creative work.
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Regret is past-tense decision making.
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WHY EXERCISE IS IMPORTANT TO STAN Aside from the self-image and performance aspects: "It also puts discipline in the day. I find that if the day is terrible, but I worked out, at the end of the day I'll go, 'Well, I had a good workout,' almost no matter what happens."
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How might you put this into practice? Here are a few things I've done repeatedly for 3 to 14 days at a time to simulate losing all my money: Sleeping in a sleeping bag, whether on my living room floor or outside Wearing cheap white shirts and a single pair of jeans for the entire 3 to 14 days Using CouchSurfing.com or a similar service to live in hosts' homes for free, even if in your own city Eating only A) instant oatmeal and/or B) rice a..
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Neil Gaiman's "Make Good Art" commencement speech, which he gave at Philadelphia's University of the Arts. I've watched the video dozens of times on YouTube during rough periods. Our mutual favorite portion is "The moment that you feel that, just possibly, you're walking down the street naked, exposing too much of your heart and your mind and what exists on the inside, showing too much of yourself. That's the moment you may be starting to g..
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So, what do you do?] I never enjoyed answering this cocktail question because it reflects an epidemic I was long part of: job descriptions as self-descriptions. If someone asks me now and is anything but absolutely sincere, I explain my lifestyle of mysterious means simply. I'm a drug dealer.
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Because most of us say yes to too much stuff, and then, we let these little, mediocre things fill our lives.... The problem is, when that occasional, 'Oh my God, hell yeah!' thing comes along, you don't have enough time to give it the attention that you should, because you've said yes to too much other little, half-ass stuff, right?
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Life doesn't have to be so damn hard. It really doesn't. Most people, my past self included, have spent too much time convincing themselves that life has to be hard, a resignation to 9-to-5 drudgery in exchange for (sometimes) relaxing weekends and the occasional keep-it-short-or-get-fired vacation.
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Leg press x 20 reps Leg extension x 20 reps Squats x 20 reps (increase weight 20 lbs once you hit 20, then work back up to 20) (Two-minute rest) Leg curl x 12 reps Calf raises 3 x 15 Behind-neck pull-down x 10 Row x 10 Behind-neck pull-down x 10 (Two-minute rest) Lateral raise x 8 Press behind-the-neck x 10 (Two-minute rest) Curl x 8 Underhand chin plus weight for reps (Two-minute rest) Tricep extension x 22 Dips x 2213
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TF: Lack of time is lack of priorities. If I'm "busy," it is because I've made choices that put me in that position, so I've forbidden myself to reply to "How are you?" with "Busy." I have no right to complain. Instead, if I'm too busy, it's a cue to reexamine my systems and rules."
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Reading (learning) is the ultimate meta-skill and can be traded for anything else.
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Truth is that which has predictive power.
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Incineration does not equal human digestion; eating a fireplace log will not store the same number of calories as burning one will produce.
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Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming 'Wow! What a Ride!'"--Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967"
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self-correcting business architecture
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Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center. Big, undreamed-of things--the people on the edge see them first." --Kurt Vonnegut "Routine, in an intelligent man, is a sign of ambition." --W.H. Auden"
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Many of the one-liners teach volumes. Some summarize excellence in an entire field in one sentence. As Josh Waitzkin (page 577), chess prodigy and the inspiration behind Searching for Bobby Fischer, might put it, these bite-sized learnings are a way to "learn the macro from the micro." The process of piecing them together was revelatory. If I thought I saw "the Matrix" before, I was mistaken, or I was only seeing 10% of it. Still, even that..
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Boner or No Boner? "Men, if you wake up and you don't have a boner, there's a problem. Yes or no? One or zero? Boner, no boner?"
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just like most nightmares, it's not that big a deal and is reversible.
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case--a tolerable and comfortable existence doing something unfulfilling. The last is most common and most insidious.
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Is it really necessary to work like a slave to live like a millionaire?
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He had realized something while arcing in slow circles toward the earth--risks weren't that scary once you took them. His
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The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain. --COLIN WILSON,
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a Harvard M.B.A. and can help you. You should spend more time fishing, and with the proceeds, buy a bigger boat. In no time, you could buy several boats with the increased haul. Eventually, you would have a fleet of fishing boats." He continued, "Instead of selling your catch to a middleman, you would sell directly to the consumers, eventually opening your own cannery. You would control the product, processing, and distribution. You would n..
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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 ideology. And we've got to give Newt his due. His strategic ability--his relentless focus on capturing the House of Representatives for the Republicans--led to one of the biggest political landslides in American history. Now that he's in the private sector, Newt uses a brillian..
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Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination. --OSCAR WILDE, Irish dramatist and novelist
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Since all of them overestimated the competition, no one even showed up.
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Note to the ladies, for whom peanut butter seems to be like crack: the tablespoon scoop should be no more than a small mound, not half the jar balanced on a spoon.
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As to methods there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble. --RALPH WALDO EMERSON
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I think you'd love this puppy. Why don't you just take him home and see what you think? You can just bring him back if you change your mind.
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As William Gibson, who coined the term "cyberspace," has said: "The future is already here--it is just unevenly distributed."
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Does history record any case in which the majority was right? --Robert Heinlein
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As I have heard said, a person's success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have. Resolve to do one thing every day that you fear. I got into this habit by attempting to contact celebrities and famous businesspeople for advice.
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Named must your fear be before banish it you can. --YODA, from Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another. --ANATOLE FRANCE, author of The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
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