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What is the 20% of my belongings that I use 80% of the time? Eliminate the other 80% in clothing, magazines, books, and all else. Be ruthless - you can always repurchase things you can't live without.
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If you can't define it or act upon it, forget it.
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One evening, intending to ask my host mother to wake me the next morning (okosu), I ask her to violently rape me (okasu). She is very confused.
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Nothing breaks my heart more than seeing that person who's struggling to lose weight who thinks that they need to run 20 miles a week. They have no desire to do it, their knees hurt, they hate it, and they're not losing weight. And I'd like to say, 'Well, I've got great news for you. You don't ever need to run another step a day in your life, because there's no value in that.' "There is value in exercise, though, and I think that the most i..
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people, even good people, will unknowingly abuse your time to the extent that you let them. Set good rules for all involved to minimize back-and-forth and meaningless communication.
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I believe that success can be measured in the number of uncomfortable conversations you're willing to have.
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If you want an average, successful life, it doesn't take much planning. Just stay out of trouble, go to school, and apply for jobs you might like. But if you want something extraordinary, you have two paths: 1) Become the best at one specific thing. 2) Become very good (top 25%) at two or more things. The
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Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace. --ROBERT J. SAWYER, Calculating God
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What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for a worthwhile goal, a freely chosen task. --VIKTOR E. FRANKL, Holocaust survivor; author of Man's Search for Meaning
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You must want to be a butterfly so badly, you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.
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In cooking--as in business and war--hope for the best but plan for the worst.
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My goal is to learn things once and use them forever.
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1. Limit tasks to the important to shorten work time (80/20). 2. Shorten work time to limit tasks to the important (Parkinson's Law).
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Don't aim at success. The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued. . . . Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it. I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long-run--in the long-ru..
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a person's success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have.
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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, American poet and winner of four Pulitzer Prizes
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Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate. --DAVE BARRY, Pulitzer Prize-winning American humorist
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It's a short reminder that success can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations we are willing to have, and by the number of uncomfortable actions we are willing to take. The most fulfilled and effective people I know--world-famous creatives, billionaires, thought leaders, and more--look at their life's journey as perhaps 25 percent finding themselves and 75 percent creating themselves.
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The New Rich ( NR) are those who abandon the deferred-life plan and create luxury lifestyles in the present using the currency of the New Rich: time and mobility.
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At least three time per day at scheduled times, he had to ask himself the following question: Am I being productive or just active? Charney captured the essence of this with less-abstract wording: Am I inventing things to do to avoid the important? He eliminated all of the activities he used as crutches and began to focus on demonstrating results instead of showing dedication. Dedication is often just meaningless work in disguise. Be ruthle..
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Parkinson's Law dictates that a task will swell in (perceived) importance and complexity in relation to the time allotted for its completion.
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Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. --ALBERT EINSTEIN
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we end up spending (as Thoreau put it) "the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it." We'd love to drop all and explore the world outside, we tell ourselves, but the time never seems right. Thus, given an unlimited amount of choices, we make none. Settling into our lives, we get so obsessed with holding on to our domestic certainties that we forget why we desired th..
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Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has been made in the last 30 years, many foreign people still speak in foreign languages. --DAVE BARRY
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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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Someday" is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you. Pro and con lists are just as bad. If it's important to you and you want to do it "eventually," just do it and correct course along the way."
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Less Is Not Laziness Doing less meaningless work, so that you can focus on things of greater personal importance, is NOT laziness. This is hard for most to accept, because our culture tends to reward personal sacrifice instead of personal productivity.
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Even if you are predisposed to being overweight, you're not predestined to be fat.
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Doing the Unrealistic Is Easier Than Doing the Realistic
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Most information is time-consuming, negative, irrelevant to your goals, and outside of your influence. I challenge you to look at whatever you read or watched today and tell me that it wasn't at least two of the four. I read the front-page headlines through
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When you're thinking of how to make your business bigger, it's tempting to try to think all the big thoughts, the world-changing, massive-action plans. But please know that it's often the tiny details that really thrill someone enough to make them tell all their friends about you.
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So red teaming is: You take people who aren't wedded to the plan and [ask them,] 'How would you disrupt this plan or how would you defeat this plan?' If you have a very thoughtful red team, you'll produce stunning results.
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Capitalism rewards things that are both rare and valuable. You make yourself rare by combining two or more "pretty goods" until no one else has your mix. ."
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The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment. --WARREN G. BENNIS,
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Charlie's Almanack, Influence, and Man's Search for Meaning, among others The habit of listening to single songs on repeat for focus (page 507) Nearly everyone has done some form of "spec" work (completing projects on their own time and dime, then submitting them to prospective buyers) The belief that "failure is not durable" (see Robert Rodriguez, page 628) or variants thereof Almost every guest has been able to take obvious "weaknesses" a..
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The very word 'success' has become contaminated by our ideas of someone extraordinary, very rich, etc., and that's really unhelpful.... Ultimately, to be properly successful is to be at peace as well.
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What are three tests or practices from the military that civilians could use to help develop mental toughness?": STAN: "The first is to push yourself harder than you believe you're capable of. You'll find new depth inside yourself. The second is to put yourself in groups who share difficulties, discomfort. We used to call it 'shared privation.' You'll find that when you have been through that kind of difficult environment, that you feel mor..
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Life is too short to be small. --BENJAMIN DISRAELI
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Parkinson's Law dictates that a task will swell in (perceived) importance and complexity in relation to the time allotted for its completion. It
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There are two synergistic approaches for increasing productivity that are inversions of each other: 1. Limit tasks to the important to shorten work time (80/20). 2. Shorten work time to limit tasks to the important (Parkinson's Law). The best solution is to use both together: Identify the few critical tasks that contribute most to income and schedule them with very short and clear deadlines.
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You're not responsible for the hand of cards you were dealt. You're responsible for maxing out what you were given.
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I'm often asked how I define "success." It's an overused term, but I fundamentally view this elusive beast as a combination of two things - achievement and appreciation. One isn't enough: Achievement without appreciation makes you ambitious but miserable. Appreciation without achievement makes you unambitious but happy."
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The more we associate experience with cash value, the more we think that money is what we need to live. And the more we associate money with life, the more we convince ourselves that we're too poor to buy our freedom. With
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Learn to slow down. Get lost intentionally. Observe how you judge both yourself and those around you.
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