Have you taken the time to get clarity about who you are and what you stand for?
Great entrepreneurs are never out of the game for long. They slip many times, but they don't fall.
Great commanders look for decision points. For it is bursts of energy directed at decisive points that break things wide open. They
Because though our doubts (and self-doubts) feel real, they have very little bearing on what is and isn't possible.
As infuriating as it may be, we must be rational and fair about our own work. This is difficult considering our conflict of interest—which is to say, the ultimate conflict of interest: We made it. The...
As Sean Ellis, one of the first growth hackers—he coined the term with Patrick Vlaskovits—puts it: Focusing on customer acquisition over ‘awareness’ takes discipline. . . . At a certain scale, awarene...
Apply yourself to thinking through difficulties—hard times can be softened, tight squeezes widened, and heavy loads made lighter for those who can apply the right pressure. —SENECA, ON TRANQUILITY OF...
A poet’s function . . . is not to experience the poetic state: that is a private affair. His function is to create it in others.
If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.
Don’t spend your time (the most valuable and least renewable of all your resources) on the things that don’t matter.
Circumstances are incapable of considering or caring for your feelings, your anxiety, or your excitement.
We can’t keep learning if we think we already know everything. Ryan Holiday, Ego is the Enemy, pg 99
We can learn to focus on what things really are.
Uncertainty and fear are relieved by authority. Training is authority. It’s a release valve. With enough exposure, you can adapt out those perfectly ordinary, even innate, fears that are bred mostly f...
Twenty-five hundred years ago, Thucydides would say that the three strongest motives for men were fear, honor, and self-interest. Fear. Honor. Self-interest. All covered. Which is the truest of them f...
Tis a common proof, That lowliness is young ambition’s ladder. —SHAKESPEARE
This is why we can’t let externals determine whether something was worth it or not. It’s on us.
There’s one fabulous way to work all that out of your system: attach yourself to people and organizations who are already successful and subsume your identity into theirs and move both forward simulta...
There’s no time off. There aren’t even weekends. We are always preparing for what life might throw at us—and when it does, we’re ready and don’t stop until we’ve handled it.
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