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Lifestyle Design is thus not interested in creating an excess of idle time, which is poisonous, but the positive use of free time, defined simply as doing what you want as opposed to what you feel obligated to do.
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use fat, not water, to counter hotness. Capsaicin is fat-soluble.
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People are poor judges of importance and inflate minutiae to fill time and feel important.
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don't label a lot of things good/bad. [Instead, I ask] can I evolve from this? What do I want now?
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Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I'll spend the first four sharpening the axe." --Abraham Lincoln"
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An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field. --NIELS BOHR, Danish physicist and Nobel Prize winner
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Hard feelings pass. Don't suffer fools or you'll become one.
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Alex Honnold, free solo climbing phenom: The Last of the Mohicans soundtrack Rolf Potts, author of Vagabonding and others: ambitones like The Zen Effect in the key of C for 30 minutes, made by Rolfe Kent, the composer of music for movies like Sideways, Wedding Crashers, and Legally Blonde Matt Mullenweg, lead developer of WordPress, CEO of Automattic: "Everyday" by A$AP Rocky and "One Dance" by Drake Amelia Boone, the world's most successfu..
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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
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Work wherever and whenever you want, but get your work done.
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Related: Money doesn't change you; it reveals who you are when you no longer have to be nice
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Have you outgrown your systems or beliefs? Is it time that you upgraded? Or, on a personal level, as Jerry Colonna, executive coach to some of the biggest tech stars in Silicon Valley, would ask: "How are you complicit in creating the conditions you say you don't want?" --
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Being busy is a form of laziness--lazy thinking and indiscriminate action. Being overwhelmed is often as unproductive as doing nothing, and is far more unpleasant. Being selective--doing less--is the path of the productive. Focus on the important few and ignore the rest.
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But not having cable or the Internet turns out to be cheaper than having them. And nature is still technically free, even if human beings have tried to make access to it expensive. Time and quiet should not be luxury items.
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SLOW DANCE Have you ever watched kids On a merry-go-round? Or listened to the rain Slapping on the ground? Ever followed a butterfly's erratic flight? Or gazed at the sun into the fading night? You better slow down. Don't dance so fast. Time is short. The music won't last. Do you run through each day On the fly? When you ask: How are you? Do you hear the reply? When the day is done, do you lie in your bed With the next hundred chores Runnin..
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I wish I would have known that there was no need to wait. I went to college. I went to law school. I worked in law and banking, though not for terribly long. But not until I started PayPal did I fully realize that you don't have to wait to start something. So if you're planning to do something with your life, if you have a 10-year plan of how to get there, you should ask: Why can't you do this in 6 months? Sometimes, you have to actually go..
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Weirdness is why we adore our friends. . . . Weirdness is what bonds us to our colleagues. Weirdness is what sets us apart, gets us hired. Be your unapologetically weird self. In fact, being weird may even find you the ultimate happiness.
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What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do. 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
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The opposite of play isn't work. It's depression.
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If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is, too. Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think. Unreasonable and unrealistic goals are easier to achieve for yet another reason.
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Love yourself . . . You've got to love yourself before you can love others. Without it, nothing productive is going to happen, and we can all bang our heads on the wall.
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I'm not going to worry about losing one friend if I have a hundred, but if I have two friends I'm really going to be worried. I'm not going to worry about losing my job because my one boss is going to fire me, because I have thousands of bosses at newspapers everywhere. One of the ways to not worry about stress is to eliminate it. I don't worry about my stock picks because I have a diversified portfolio. Diversification works in almost ever..
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And if you say you're not creative, look at how much you're missing out on just because you've told yourself that. I think creativity is one of the greatest gifts that we're born with that some people don't cultivate, that they don't realize it could be applied to literally everything in their lives.
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Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist." --Pablo Picasso"
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The Logic of the Double or Triple Threat On "career advice," Scott has written the following, which is slightly trimmed for space here. This is effectively my mantra, and you'll see why I bring it up: 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 ..
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The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials." --Lin Yutang"
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Ben Franklin's excellent advice: "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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If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid."--Epictetus"
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When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be." --Lao Tzu"
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Make your peace with the fact that saying 'no' often requires trading popularity for respect." --Greg McKeown, Essentialism"
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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
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If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success." --James Cameron"
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As a builder, as an entrepreneur, how can you create something for someone else if you don't have even enough glancing familiarity with them to imagine the world through their eyes?
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The Shortness of Life: Seneca on Busyness and the Art of Living Wide Rather Than Living Long" "How to Find Your Purpose and Do What You Love" "9 Learnings from 9 Years of Brain Pickings" Anything about Alan Watts: "Alan Watts has changed my life. I've written about him quite a bit."
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Many a false step was made by standing still. --FORTUNE COOKIE
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The Purpose of Life Is a Life of Purpose." This is Stan's answer to "If you could put a billboard anywhere and write anything on it, what would it say?" It is a quote from Robert Byrne."
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it's almost like, sometimes, I'm not a participant in my own life. I'm an observer of that guy who's doing it. So, if I'm having a conversation with you and we're trying to discuss a point, I'm watching and saying [to myself], 'Wait, am I being too emotional right now? Wait a second, look at him. What is his reaction?' Because I'm not reading you correctly if I'm seeing you through my own emotion or ego. I can't really see what you're think..
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most cold calls didn't get to the intended person for one reason: gatekeepers. If I simply made all my calls from 8:00-8:30 A.M. and 6:00-6:30 P.M., for a total of one hour, I was able to avoid secretaries and book more than twice as many meetings
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Stop wishing and start doing.
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His Message at a High School Commencement "You guys are programmed to succeed. The hardest thing you're ever going to do in your life is fail at something, and if you don't start failing at things, you will not live a full life. You'll be living a cautious life on a path that you know is pretty much guaranteed to more or less work. That's not getting the most out of this amazing world we live in. You have to do the hardest thing that you ha..
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the tricky thing about life is, on the one hand having the courage to enter into things that are unfamiliar, but also having the wisdom to stop exploring when you've found something worth sticking around for. That is true of a place, of a person, of a vocation. Balancing those two things--the courage of exploring and the commitment to staying--and getting the ratio right is very hard. I think my 70-year-old self would say: 'Be careful that ..
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The future is already here--it's just unevenly distributed."--William Gibson"
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The minimum effective dose (MED) is defined simply: the smallest dose that will produce a desired outcome.
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The commonsense rules of the "real world" are a fragile collection of socially reinforced illusions."
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