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Often when you think you're at the end of something, you're at the beginning of something else." -Fred Rogers" --
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When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be." -Lao Tzu"
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Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly." -Mae West"
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Celebrate the childlike mind." Steve Jurvetson"
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Out of Control by Kevin Kelly
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Everybody's impatient at a macro, and just so patient at a micro, wasting your days worrying about years. I'm not worried about my years, because I'm squeezing the fuck out of my seconds, let alone my days. It's going to work out.
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WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us.
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The Meaning of Culture by John Cowper Powys,
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Seeing as how nothing is outside the vast, wide-meshed net of heaven, who is there to say just how it is cast?" "I find good people good, and I find bad people good, if I am good enough."
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The Way of Life According to Lao Tzu, the Tao Te Ching as translated by Witter Bynner.
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Rissa Kerguelen by F. M. Busby.
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Money in a business is like gas in your car. You need to pay attention so you don't end up on the side of the road. But your trip is not a tour of gas stations.
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These two books are actually parts one and two of a six-part collection called Rationality: From AI to Zombies, sourced from Yudkowsky's blog posts from the site LessWrong.com over the last decade.
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Blinkist--an app that condenses nonfiction books into 15-minute reads.
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Don't believe everything you think." -BJ Miller, MD"
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When you feel overwhelmed or unfocused, what do you do? I work with my mindset coach, Elliot Roe, and/or use our app Primed Mind. After ten minutes, I'm in the zone, recharged, and ready to focus on my upcoming challenges.
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One of the world's great investors once said to me, "Tom, what do you consider the number-one failing of CEOs?" After I hemmed and hawed, he said, "They don't read enough." --
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Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win. He has since authored a best-selling children's book, Way of the Warrior Kid, and his latest, Discipline Equals Freedom: Field Manual, which details his unique mental and physical "operating system."
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Let life ripen and then fall. Will is not the way at all."--Lao Tzu, from The Way of Life According to Lao Tzu"
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Tom Peters is still reinventing himself." His most recent book is The Little BIG Things: 163 Ways to Pursue Excellence."
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Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking, Frank Partnoy's Wait: The Art and Science of Delay, Linda Kaplan-Thaler's The Power of Nice: How to Conquer the Business World with Kindness and The Power of Small: Why Little Things Make All the Difference, and Cathy O'Neil's Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy.
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Were my goals my own, or simply what I thought I should want? How much of life had I missed from underplanning or overplanning?
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Never let a good crisis go to waste. It's the universe challenging you to learn something new and rise to the next level of your potential." Kristen Ulmer"
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Kristen is the author of The Art of Fear: Why Conquering Fear Won't Work and What to Do Instead.
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Oscar Wilde's advice, "The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it"
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A Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander.
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The things you own end up owning you." -Chuck Palahniuk American author, best known for Fight Club"
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Brene is also the New York Times best-selling author of Daring Greatly, The Gifts of Imperfection, Rising Strong, and Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone.
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Our next reads are Stretch by Scott Sonenshein and Lead Yourself First by Kethledge and Erwin.
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When you feel overwhelmed or unfocused, what do you do? What questions do you ask yourself? Always these questions: Sleep? Exercise? Healthy food? Am I resentful because I'm not setting or holding a boundary?
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There is no way to happiness--happiness is the way." -THICH NHAT HANH"
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The Power of Less: The Fine Art of Limiting Yourself to the Essential . . . in Business and in Life, Essential Zen Habits: Mastering the Art of Change, Briefly, and several other books.
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If you could have a gigantic billboard anywhere with anything on it, what would it say and why? "You are good enough, just as you are. Breathe, and relax into the moment."
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Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl The Fourth Turning by William Strauss (Also, Generations by William Strauss, which was gifted to Tony by Bill Clinton) Mindset by Carol Dweck (for parenting) As a Man Thinketh by James Allen (see Shay Carl, page 441)
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Mastery is a journey, not a destination. True masters never believe they have attained mastery. There is always more to be learned and greater skill to be developed.
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Proteins *Egg whites with 1-2 whole eggs for flavor (or, if organic, 2-5 whole eggs, including yolks) *Chicken breast or thigh *Beef (preferably grass-fed) *Fish Pork Legumes *Lentils (also called "dal" or "daal") *Black beans Pinto beans Red beans Soybeans Vegetables *Spinach *Mixed vegetables (including broccoli, cauliflower, or any other cruciferous vegetables) *Sauerkraut, kimchee (full explanation of these later in "Damage Control") ..
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There's the instant, unconscious, automatic thinking and then there's the slower, conscious, rational, deliberate thinking.
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That's the underlying philosophy of Aoki Bootcamp:
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So, my advice to my 30-year-old self is, don't be a donkey. You can do everything you want to do. You just need foresight and patience.
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go through an exercise that helps me to get present to the reality of the situation. I tell my story to myself from the perspective of a victim, then I tell the exact same story from a place of 100 percent responsibility. Victim: "I was late to an important event because my girlfriend took too long to get ready. It's not my fault." Responsible: "I acknowledge my breakdown in being late. In the future I am committed to making sure that I do ..
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Telling myself the victim story allows me to vent briefly. Once I'm over it, then I realize that if this meeting was so important to me, I should have made it clear to my girlfriend that I couldn't be late, and let her know that if she was running late, I'd have to leave without her.
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Investing in yourself is the most important investment you'll ever make in your life.
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Be the silence that listens." -Tara Brach"
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Premack [a motivational system where a more-preferred activity can be used to reinforce a less-preferred activity] or a rewards system, but with
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