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If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing.
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never forget that underneath all the math and the MBA bullshit talk, we are all still emotionally driven human
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Life is always happening for us, not to us. It's our job to find out where the benefit is. If we do, life is magnificent.
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being able to view things as they are as opposed to what everybody says about them,
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if you have a very clear vision of where you want to go, then the rest of it is much easier.
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In negotiation, he who cares the least wins.
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The quality of your life is the quality of your questions.
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If you don't have 20 minutes to delve into yourself through meditation, then that means you really need 2 hours.
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What advice would you give to a smart, driven college student about to enter the "real world"? What advice should they ignore? I thought about this a lot when I gave the commencement address at MIT back in 2013. I said that if I had a cheat sheet I could give myself at 22, it would have three things on it: a tennis ball, a circle, and the number 30,000. The tennis ball is about finding something that you can become obsessed with, like my ch..
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It's when I'm fuzzy about where I'm headed that I start to say yes to things willy-nilly. And I've been burned enough times by FOMO-based and ego-based decision-making to know that I'll always regret choosing to do something for the wrong reason.
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Life is too short to be busy. Spirit animal: Sponge Cal Fussman Cal Fussman (TW: @calfussman, calfussman.com) is a New York Times best-selling author and a writer-at-large for Esquire magazine, where he is best known for being a primary writer of the What I've Learned feature. The Austin Chronicle has described Cal's interviewing skills as "peerless." He has transformed oral history into an art form, conducting probing interviews with icons..
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When they're told that some people or ideas are wrong, hateful, or offensive, a light bulb should go off in their heads. That is the moment their curiosity should be piqued to find out for themselves whether it is indeed a "bad" thing."
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Ludwig Wittgenstein,
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What you seek is seeking you." --RUMI"
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The only true voyage would be not to travel through a hundred different lands with the same pair of eyes, but to see the same land through a hundred different pairs of eyes." --MARCEL PROUST"
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My two cents: Excellence is the next five minutes or nothing at all. It's the quality of your next five-minute conversation. It's the quality of, yes, your next email. Forget the long term. Make the next five minutes rock!
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little part of me dies every time someone tells me they've taken a job as a "steppingstone" to something else, when they clearly aren't invested in it. You have one life to live. Time is valuable. If you're using steppingstones, you're also likely relying on someone else's path or definition of success. Make your own. What are bad recommendations you hear in your profession or area of expertise?"
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What advice would you give to a smart, driven college student about to enter the "real world"? Most of the game is about persistence. It is the most important trait. Sure, when you get an opportunity, you have to perform and you have to exceed beyond all expectations, but getting that chance is the hardest part. So keep the vision clear in your head and every day refuse all obstacles to get to the goal."
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You can be a juicy ripe peach and there'll still be someone who doesn't like peaches.
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God will not have his work made manifest by cowards."--Ralph Waldo Emerson"
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Life punishes the vague wish and rewards the specific ask.
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You have a lot less time than you think, and you're not spending your time the way you think you are.
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You can do so much in ten minutes' time. Ten minutes, once gone, are gone for good. Divide your life into ten-minute units and sacrifice as few of them as possible in meaningless activity." -Ingvar Kamprad"
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That cliche you ignored like a throwaway fortune cookie? Suddenly it makes sense and moves mountains
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What is the book (or books) you've given most as a gift, and why? Or what are one to three books that have greatly influenced your life? Mastery by George Leonard. I first read this book 20 years ago, after reading Leonard's Esquire article, the seed from which the book grew. Leonard wrote the book to share lessons from becoming an Aikido master teacher, despite starting practice at the advanced age of 47. I raced through its 170-plus pages..
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What is the book (or books) you've given most as a gift, and why? Or what are one to three books that have greatly influenced your life? Hands down, The War of Art by Steven Pressfield. This book has a magical, activating quality to it. It's the essential no-bullshit guide for anyone who battles self-doubt or struggles to bring any important project to life. I reread it in full at least once a year. But it's also the kind of book that you c..
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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
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Y en que consiste el estudio emocional de una idea?
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Named must your fear be before banish it you can." -Yoda Powerful Jedi master" --
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Energy can neither be created nor destroyed. It can only change forms. The
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I'd helped kick caffeine withdrawal the week before. I'd given him an l-tyrosine cocktail and,
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When I'm cooking or doing other physical work and I get overwhelmed, it's usually because I'm not taking care of myself, so I'll take a break. I'll make a snack or a cup of tea. Or I'll just drink a glass of water and sit down outside for a few minutes. It's usually enough to get me calm and clear.
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What are the kinds of key things that might be constraints on a solution, or might be the attributes of a solution, and what are tools or assets I might have? .
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Career specialists can't externalize what they've internalized. Second nature is hard to teach.
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Each delegated task must be both time-consuming and well-defined. If you're running around like a chicken with its head cut off and assign your VA to do that for you, it doesn't improve the order of the universe.
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And when you lose more than a few clothing sizes, just remember to put on a bit of Gotu Kola cream to minimize stretch marks, as Olympic strength coach Charles Poliquin recommends.
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The second thing is, when you are trying to go 10 times bigger, you have to start with a clean sheet of paper, and you approach the problem completely differently. I'll give you my favorite example: Tesla. How did Elon start Tesla and build from scratch the safest, most extraordinary car, not even in America, but I think in the world? It's by not having a legacy from the past to drag into the present. That's important.
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His friends, drunk to the point of speaking in tongues, were asleep.
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I hadn't reached my limit; I'd reached the limit of my business model at the time. It wasn't the driver, it was the vehicle.
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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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2. I'm just caging my monkey mind on paper so I can get on with my fucking day.
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D: To reach the big pay-off, whether IPO, acquisition, retirement, or other pot of gold. NR: To think big but ensure payday comes every day: cash flow first, big payday second.
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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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What is the book (or books) you've given most as a gift, and why? Or what are one to three books that have greatly influenced your life? At some point about halfway through my 20-year career in the SEAL Teams, I read About Face by Colonel David H. Hackworth. I haven't stopped reading it since. Hackworth came up through the ranks and served as an infantry officer in the Korean and Vietnam wars. He was revered by his men and respected by all ..
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