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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| b35afe3 | through our perception of events, we are complicit in the creation--as well as the destruction--of every one of our obstacles. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 9c0bb65 | There are a few things to keep in mind when faced with a seemingly insurmountable obstacle. We must try: To be objective To control emotions and keep an even keel To choose to see the good in a situation To steady our nerves To ignore what disturbs or limits others To place things in perspective To revert to the present moment To focus on what can be controlled | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 7babb72 | Because though our doubts (and self-doubts) feel real, they have very little bearing on what is and isn't possible. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 65c497c | We choose how we'll look at things. We retain the ability to inject perspective into a situation. We can't change the obstacles themselves--that part of the equation is set--but the power of perspective can change how the obstacles appear. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 7aabf5f | When action is our priority, vanity falls away. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| eb0e440 | When you take away the question mark, it usually turns their headline into a lie. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| b253ba1 | We decide what we will make of each and every situation. We decide whether we'll break or whether we'll resist. We decide whether we'll assent or reject. No one can force us to give up or to believe something that is untrue (such as, that a situation is absolutely hopeless or impossible to improve). Our perceptions are the thing that we're in complete control of. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 4af354e | Every obstacle is unique to each of us. But the responses they elicit are the same: Fear. Frustration. Confusion. Helplessness. Depression. Anger. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 1c3984a | The researchers found that while sadness is an extreme emotion, it is a wholly unviral one. Sadness, like what one might feel to see a stray dog shivering for warmth or a homeless man begging for money, is typically a low-arousal emotion. Sadness depresses our impulse for social sharing. It's why nobody wanted to share the Magnum photos but gladly shared the ones on the Huffington Post. The HuffPo photos were awe-some; they made us angry, o.. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 4cb352d | Andy Grove, former CEO of Intel, outlined when he described what happens to businesses in tumultuous times: "Bad companies are destroyed by crisis. Good companies survive them. Great companies are improved by them." | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 279a718 | Many of our problems come from having too much: rapid technological disruption, junk food, traditions that tell us the way we're supposed to live our lives. We're soft, entitled, and scared of conflict. Great times are great softeners. Abundance can be its own obstacle, as many people can attest. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 26734a8 | And Johnson, genuinely hated by his opponent and the crowd, still enjoying every minute of it. Smiling, joking, playing the whole fight. Why not? There's no value in any other reaction. Should he hate them for hating him? Bitterness was their burden and Johnson refused to pick it up. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 49989c1 | Growth hackers are a hybrid of marketer and coder, one who looks at the traditional question of "How do I get customers for my product?" and answers with A/B tests, landing pages, viral factor, email deliverability, and Open Graph. . . ." | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 33c68b4 | Outward appearances are deceptive. What's within them, beneath them, is what matters. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 98f62f3 | In the way that a good wine must be aged, or that we let meat marinate for hours in spices and sauce, an idea must be given space to develop. Rushing into things eliminates that space. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 27959a6 | Snark encourages the fakeness and stupidity it is supposedly trying to rail against. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| ad7174f | Things must be negative but not too negative. Hopelessness, despair--these drive us to do nothing. Pity, empathy--those drive us to do something, like get up from our computers to act. But anger, fear, excitement, or laughter--these drive us to spread. They drive us to do something that makes us feel as if we are doing something, when in reality we are only contributing to what is probably a superficial and utterly meaningless conversation... | Ryan Holiday | ||
| b689969 | Marketing is the art of allocating resources--sending more power to the wheels that are getting traction, sending it away from the ones that are spinning. And investing in each strategy until the results stop working. Then find the next one! | Ryan Holiday | ||
| b129ca4 | It is always revealing to see how a person responds to those situations where he's told: "There's nothing you can do about it. This is the way of the world." Peter Thiel's friend, the mathematician and economist Eric Weinstein, has a category of individual he defines as a "high-agency person." How do you respond when told something is impossible? Is that the end of the conversation or the start of one? What's the reaction to being told you .. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 9525186 | Tyler?" Brayden asked, and Tyler shook his head to clear thoughts that were going way too fast for him. "Sorry, yes, we'll just deal with my issues now," Tyler finally answered. "But, whatever it is that's bothering you, I hope you know I'll help if you need it." "I don't know if I like this new caring-brother thing you're doing." "Hey, I've always been caring, just a bit of an ass at times." "At times?" Brayden smiled." | Carrie Ann Ryan | ||
| e51aab7 | It is impossible to learn that which one thinks one already knows," Epictetus says." | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 57fb686 | As Chris Hedges, the philosopher and journalist, wrote, "In an age of images and entertainment, in an age of instant emotional gratification, we neither seek nor want honesty or reality. Reality is complicated. Reality is boring. We are incapable or unwilling to handle its confusion." | Ryan Holiday | ||
| d37cdac | Just because you've begun down one path doesn't mean you're committed to it forever , especially if that path turns out to be flawed or impeded. At that same time, this is not an excuse to be flighty or incessantly noncommittal. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 4d0e02f | You must build up your life action by action, and be content if each one achieves its goal as far as possible--and no one can keep you from this. But there will be some external obstacle! Perhaps, but no obstacle to acting with justice, self-control, and wisdom. But what if some other area of my action is thwarted? Well, gladly accept the obstacle for what it is and shift your attention to what is given, and another action will immediately .. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| f6c920e | But in our lives, when our worst instincts are in control, we dally. We don't act like Demosthenes, we act frail and are powerless to make ourselves better. We may be able to articulate a problem, even potential solutions, but then weeks, months, or sometimes years later, the problem is still there. Or it's gotten worse. As though we expect someone else to handle it, as though we honestly believe that there is a chance of obstacles unobstac.. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 9b28688 | Jackson blinked again, almost at a loss for words as he ignored the mini Cooper reference, a term the girls loved and had begun calling their offspring. Having four women all entering the second trimester of their pregnancy at the same time was just about killing the brothers. How the hell had he become part of this? He wasn't married to any of them, and yet now he was the peanut butter bearer. Hell. "Four...four types of peanut butter?" Ja.. | Carrie Ann Ryan | ||
| eca3a60 | Being trapped is just a position, not a fate. You get out of it by addressing and eliminating each part of that position through small, deliberate actions--not by trying (and failing) to push it away with superhuman strength. With | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 41dd4b1 | The reality is that while the Internet allows content to be written iteratively, the audience does not read or consume it iteratively. Each member usually sees what he or she sees a single time--a snapshot of the process--and makes his or her conclusions from that. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 9adcb77 | He was patient because he knew that difficult things took time. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| d4e1a1d | We're all just humans, doing the best we can. We're all just trying to survive, and in the process, inch the world forward a little bit. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| a27e3c9 | Blogs are assailed on all sides, by the crushing economics of the business, dishonest sources, inhuman deadlines, pageview quotas, inaccurate information, greedy publishers, poor training, the demands of the audience, and so much more. These incentives are real, whether you're at The Huffington Post or some tiny blog. Taken individually, the resulting output is obvious: bad stories, incomplete stories, wrong stories, unimportant stories. | journalism reporting | Ryan Holiday | |
| aef8717 | See things for what they are. Do what we can. Endure and bear what we must. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 0da2f36 | The ways this separation manifests itself negatively are immense: We can't work with other people if we've put up walls. We can't improve the world if we don't understand it or ourselves. We can't take or receive feedback if we are incapable of or uninterested in hearing from outside sources. We can't recognize opportunities--or create them--if instead of seeing what is in front of us, we live inside our own fantasy. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| eed1464 | Doing great work is a struggle. It's draining, it's demoralizing, it's frightening. We talk to fill the void and the uncertainty. The greatest work and art comes from wrestling with the void, facing it instead of scrambling to make it go away. The question is, when faced with your particular challenge, do you seek the respite of talk or do you face the struggle head-on? | work-ethic | Ryan Holiday | |
| e998cde | Appearances are deceiving. *Having* authority is not the same as *being* an authority. *Having* the right and *being* the right are not the same either. Being promoted doesn't necessarily mean you're doing good work and it doesn't mean you are worthy of promotion (they call it failing upward in such bureaucracies). *Impressing people is utterly different from being truly impressive.* To be or to do - life is a constant roll call. | the-power-of-choice | Ryan Holiday | |
| 95fc6a0 | You rush in to stamp out the sparks and end up fanning them into flames. This is the risk. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 8ca3143 | Knowledge--self-knowledge in particular--is freedom. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 42243e5 | Ego needs honors in order to be validated. Confidence, on the other hand, is able to wait and focus on the task at hand regardless of external recognition. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| da9ca07 | Let's make one thing clear: we never earn the right to be greedy or to pursue our interests at the expense of everyone else. To think otherwise is not only egotistical, it's counterproductive. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 9840dba | It's the logic of two campers and the bear--you don't need to be faster than the bear, just faster than the other camper. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 850f2d2 | More than purpose, we also need realism. Where do we start? What do we do first? What do we do right now? How are we sure that what we're doing is moving us forward? What are we benchmarking ourselves against? | Ryan Holiday | ||
| a9204f9 | No matter what you've done up to this point, you better still be a student. If you're not still learning, you're already dying. It is not enough only to be a student at the beginning. It is a position that one has to assume for life. Learn from everyone and everything. From the people you beat, and the people who beat you, from the people you dislike, even from your supposed enemies. At every step and every juncture in life, there is the op.. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 5b41813 | When you live each day with intentionality, there's almost no limit to what you can do. You can transform yourself, your family, your community, and your nation. When enough people do that, they can change the world. When you intentionally use your everyday life to bring about positive change in the lives of others, you begin to live a life that matters. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| fb21ee5 | Good leadership isn't about advancing yourself. It's about advancing your team. The | John C. Maxwell |