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| 62f60ea | Take your situation and pretend it is not happening to you. Pretend it is not important, that it doesn't matter. How much easier would it be for you to know what to do? How much more quickly and dispassionately could you size up the scenario and its options? You could write it off, greet it calmly. Think | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 426d789 | The more skilled you become seeing things for what they are, the more perception will work for you rather than against | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 2d04771 | Think of George Washington, putting everything he had into the American Revolution, and then saying, "The event is in the hand of God." Or Eisenhower, writing to his wife on the eve of the Allied invasion at Sicily: "Everything we could think of have been done, the troops are fit everybody is doing his best. The answer is in the lap of the gods." These were not guys prone to settling or leaving the details up to other people--but they under.. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| b9b7f7a | those who attack problems and life with the most initiative and energy usually win. He | Ryan Holiday | ||
| fc9653f | So what is scarce and rare? Silence. The ability to deliberately keep yourself out of the conversation and subsist without its validation. Silence is the respite of the confident and the strong. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 306ffe9 | Where is Good? In our reasoned choices. Where is Evil? In our reasoned choices. Where is that which is neither Good nor Evil? In the things outside of our own reasoned choice." --EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 2.16.1 T" | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 98e9745 | has ever done this or that is a good thing. When given an unfair task, some rightly see it as a chance to test what they're made of--to give it all they've got, knowing full well how difficult it will be to win. They see it as an opportunity because it is often in that desperate nothing-to-lose state that we are our most creative. Our | Ryan Holiday | ||
| a26610e | Retention trumps acquisition. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 3b539ea | Many creatives want to be just the creator, or only "the idea guy." They like that because it's sexy and because that's what comes easy to us. But I suspect we like it also because we're afraid. We're afraid of taking full responsibility for everything that comes next. A lot of decisions are going to be made--many of which can sink or make a project--that it'd be nice to have someone else to put it on. If we hand it off to someone else, the.. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| d28b288 | Adults create perennial sellers--and adults take responsibility for themselves. Children expect opportunities to be handed to them; maturity is understanding you have to go out and make them. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 7df3141 | That's how it seems to go: we're never happy with what we have, we want what others have too. We want to have more than everyone else. We start out knowing what is important to us, but once we've achieved it, we lose sight of our priorities. Ego sways us, and can ruin us. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| d30d5a2 | Instead, the timeless, recurring problems that make us human--those are ambitious problems to tackle. Some | Ryan Holiday | ||
| a1bca51 | Only is better than best. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 91e1048 | Here, we are setting out to do something. We have a goal, a calling, a new beginning. Every great journey begins here--yet far too many of us never reach our intended destination. Ego more often than not is the culprit. We build ourselves up with fantastical stories, we pretend we have it all figured out, we let our star burn bright and hot only to fizzle out, and we have no idea why. These are symptoms of ego, for which humility and realit.. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 31fe410 | Once we stop thinking of the products we market as static--that our job as marketers is to simply work with what we've got instead of working on and improving what we've got--the whole game changes. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| e94fc30 | And from what we know, he truly saw each and every one of these obstacles as an opportunity to practice some virtue: patience, courage, humility, resourcefulness, reason, justice, and creativity. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 91b20c8 | The prize and spoils no longer go to the person who makes it to market first. They go to the person who makes it to Product Market Fit first. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 6a80060 | I don't like work--no man does--but I like what is in the work--the chance to find yourself. --JOSEPH CONRAD | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 3321021 | The tools of the Internet and social media have made it possible to track, test, iterate, and improve marketing to the point where these enormous gambles are not only unnecessary, but insanely counterproductive. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 7222771 | Networking is not going to networking events and handing out business cards--that's flyering. It is instead about forming, developing, and maintaining real relationships. It's about being valuable and being available so that one day the favor might be returned. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 84aa7f0 | Each would collapse beneath the process. We've just wrongly assumed that it has to happen all at once, and we give up at the thought of it. We are A-to-Z thinkers, fretting about A, obsessing over Z, yet forgetting all about B through Y. We | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 40539a4 | There's a saying about how the Irish ship captain located all the rocks in the harbor--using the bottom of his boat. Whatever works, right? Remember | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 3ac5d7a | To see an obstacle as a challenge, to make the best of it anyway, that is also a choice--a choice that is up to us. Will I have a chance, Coach? Ta eph'hemin? Is this up to me? | Ryan Holiday | ||
| c1b2352 | He says the best way out is always through And I agree to that, or in so far As I can see no way out but through. --ROBERT FROST F | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 08fd340 | Stop looking for angels, and start looking for angles. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| f5536e8 | When setbacks come, we respond by working twice as hard. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| d0635ef | Don't let your reflection on the whole sweep of life crush you. Don't fill your mind with all the bad things that might still happen. Stay focused on the present situation and ask yourself why it's so unbearable and can't be survived." --MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 8.36" | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 57e16a0 | How you do anything is how you can do everything. We can always act right. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| a11973d | June 16th NO SHAME IN NEEDING HELP "Don't be ashamed of needing help. You have a duty to fulfill just like a soldier on the wall of battle. So what if you are injured and can't climb up without another soldier's help?" --MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 7.7 No one ever said you were born with all the tools you'd need to solve every problem you'd face in life. In fact, as a newborn you were practically helpless. Someone helped you then, and you.. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| b0c5b95 | George Clooney spent his first years in Hollywood getting rejected at auditions. He wanted the producers and directors to like him, but they didn't and it hurt and he blamed the system for not seeing how good he was. This perspective should sound familiar. It's the dominant viewpoint for the rest of us on job interviews, when we pitch clients, or try to connect with an attractive stranger in a coffee shop. We subconsciously submit to what S.. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 2affbbb | Steve Jobs was famous for what observers called his "reality distortion field." Part motivational tactic, part sheer drive and ambition, this field made him notoriously dismissive of phrases such as "It can't be done" or "We need more time." Having learned early in life that reality was falsely hemmed in by rules and compromises that people had been taught as children, Jobs had a much more aggressive idea of what was or wasn't possible. To .. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 6b5d78f | This is why we shouldn't listen too closely to what other people say (or to what the voice in our head says, either). We'll find ourselves erring on the side of accomplishing nothing. Be open. Question. Though of course we don't control reality, our perceptions do influence it. One | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 79bd2ba | how do you and I usually deal with an impossible deadline handed down from someone above us? We complain. We get angry. We question. How could they? What's the point? Who do they think I am? We look for a way out and feel sorry for ourselves. Of course, none of these things affect the objective reality of that deadline. Not in the way that pushing forward can. Jobs refused to tolerate people who didn't believe in their own abilities to succ.. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| eb7ef46 | Jobs learned to reject the first judgments and the objections that spring out of them because those objections are almost always rooted in fear. When he ordered a special kind of glass for the first iPhone, the manufacturer was aghast at the aggressive deadline. "We don't have capacity," they said. "Don't be afraid," Jobs replied. "You can do it. Get your mind around it. You can do it." Nearly overnight, manufacturers transformed their faci.. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 7c05f49 | Well, what if the "other" party is wrong? What if conventional wisdom is too conservative? It's this all-too-common impulse to complain, defer, and then give up that holds us back. An" | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 33fcbde | The Blitzkrieg strategy was designed to exploit the flinch of the enemy--he must collapse at the sight of what appears to be overwhelming force. Its success depends completely on this response. This military strategy works because the set-upon troops see the offensive force as an enormous obstacle bearing down on them. This | Ryan Holiday | ||
| cfcc51f | It's one thing to not be overwhelmed by obstacles, or discouraged or upset by them. This is something that few are able to do. But after you have controlled your emotions, and you can see objectively and stand steadily, the next step becomes possible: a mental flip, so you're looking not at the obstacle but at the opportunity within it. As | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 5733164 | you should try it the next time someone intimidates you or makes you feel insecure. See them in your mind, grunting, groaning, and awkward in their private life - just like the rest of us. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 6c349e5 | While you're sleeping, traveling, attending meetings, or messing around online, the same thing is happening to you. You're going soft. You're not aggressive enough. You're not pressing ahead. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| abbeb3c | And that's the final part: Stay moving, always. Like Earhart, Rommel knew from history that those who attack problems and life with the most initiative and energy usually win. He was always pushing ahead, keeping the stampede on the more cautious British forces to devastating effect. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| c726624 | It's time you understand that the world is telling you something with each and every failure and action. It's feedback--giving you precise instructions on how to improve, it's trying to wake you up from your cluelessness. It's trying to teach you something. Listen. Lessons | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 725c1e2 | The great psychologist Viktor Frankl, survivor of three concentration camps, found presumptuousness in the age-old question: "What is the meaning of life?" As though it is someone else's responsibility to tell you. Instead, he said, the world is asking you that question. And it's your job to answer with your actions. In" | Ryan Holiday | ||
| d6ac282 | you've got to do something very difficult. Don't focus on that. Instead break it down into pieces. Simply do what you need to do right now. And do it well. And then move on to the next thing. Follow the process and not the prize. The | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 5ba7d79 | Saban's process is exclusively this--existing in the present, taking it one step at a time, not getting distracted by anything else. Not the other team, not the scoreboard or the crowd. The process is about finishing. Finishing games. Finishing workouts. Finishing film sessions. Finishing drives. Finishing reps. Finishing plays. Finishing blocks. Finishing the smallest task you have right in front of you and finishing it well. Whether | Ryan Holiday |