Ignore what other people are doing. Ignore what’s going on around you. There is no competition. There is no objective benchmark to hit. There is simply the best that you can do—that’s all that matters...
If your nerve holds, then nothing really did happen—our perception made sure it was nothing of consequence.
If you want momentum, you’ll have to create it yourself, right now, by getting up and getting started.
If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity.
If you should ever turn your will to things outside your control in order to impress someone, be sure that you have wrecked your whole purpose in life. Be content, then, to be a philosopher in all tha...
If you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for too long. Just figure out what’s next.
If someone asks you how to write your name, would you bark out each letter? And if they get angry, would you then return the anger? Wouldn’t you rather gently spell out each letter for them? So then,...
If ego is the voice that tells us we’re better than we really are, we can say ego inhibits true success by preventing a direct and honest connection to the world around us. One
If action is what we do when we still have some agency over our situation, the will is what we depend on when agency has all but disappeared.
If Perception and Action were the disciplines of the mind and the body, then Will is the discipline of the heart and the soul.
IN THE INTRODUCTION I EXPLAINED A SCAM I CALL trading up the chain. It’s a strategy I developed that manipulates the media through recursion. I can turn nothing into something by placing a story with...
I will keep constant watch over myself and—most usefully—will put each day up for review. For this is what makes us evil—that none of us looks back upon our own lives. We reflect upon only that which...
I always prefer to start from a place of reality, not from my own projections and preferences. Humility is clearer-eyed than ego—and that’s important because humility always works harder than ego.
Humans are still primed to detect threats and dangers that no longer exist—
Humans are still primed to detect threats and dangers that no longer exist -- think of the cold sweat when you're stressed about money, or the fight-or-flight response that kicks in when your boss yel...
How you do anything is how you can do everything.
How you do anything is how you can do everything. We can always act right.
How we interpret the events in our lives, our perspective, is the framework for our forthcoming response—whether there will even be one or whether we’ll just lie there and take it. Where the head goes...
How can anyone maintain their sanity when everything you read, see, and hear is designed to make you stop whatever you're doing and consume because the world is supposedly ending?
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, laughter, and outrage—these drive...