Take the trouble you’re dealing with and use it as an opportunity to focus on the present moment.
Storytelling in which eventually your talent becomes your identity and your accomplishments become your worth. But a story like this is never honest or helpful. In my retelling to you just now, I left...
Realized that the same drive and compulsion that had made me successful so early came with a price—as it had for so many others. It wasn’t so much the amount of work but the outsized role it had taken...
Raw growth is great, but at the end of the day, we’re running businesses here. We want to turn stats into dollars.
Only the rational and disciplined mind could hope to profit from
It turns out that the more unbelievable headlines and articles readers are exposed to, the more it warps their compass—making the real seem fake and the fake seem real. The more extreme a headline, th...
It not only has to be worth spreading, it has to provoke a desire in people to spread it. Until you have accomplished that, or until your client is doing something truly remarkable, it just isn’t goin...
Inhibits true success by preventing a direct and honest connection to the world around us.
How you can feel less busy? Start by learning the power of No!—as in No, thank you, and No, I’m not going to get caught up in that, and No, I just can’t right now.
Exert only calculated force where it will be effective, rather than straining and struggling with pointless attrition tactics.
Every soul is deprived of truth against its will. The same holds true for justice, self-control, goodwill to others, and every similar virtue.
El ego es una creencia malsana en nuestra propia importancia. Esa es la definición que usaremos en este libro.
El ego es la voz que nos dice que somos mejores de lo que realmente somos, podemos decir que obstaculiza el verdadero éxito porque impide que tengamos una conexión directa y honesta con el mundo que n...
Ego is the enemy of what you want and of what you have: Of mastering a craft. Of real creative insight. Of working well with others. Of building loyalty and support. Of longevity. Of repeating and ret...
Doesn’t mean you have to agree. Just
Destruction—of every one of our obstacles.
Desapego es una especie de antídoto natural contra el ego. Es fácil sentirse emocionalmente comprometido y enamorado del trabajo propio. Todos los narcisistas pueden hacerlo. Lo raro no es el talento...
Creating more work is one of the most effective marketing techniques of all.
Approach each task as if it is your last, giving up every distraction, emotional subversion of reason, and all drama, vanity, and complaint over your fair share. You can see how mastery over a few thi...
And transform that negative situation into an education, a skill set, or a fortune.