If the definition of insanity is trying the same thing over and over and expecting different results, then passion is a form of mental retardation- deliberately blunting our most critical cognitive fu...
If we can focus on making clear what parts of our day are within our control and what parts are not, we will not only be happier, we will have a distinct advantage over other people who fail to realiz...
If we ever do want to become wise, it comes from the questioning and from humility—not, as many would like to think, from certainty, mistrust, and arrogance.
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 start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity.
If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity. Just
If you want momentum, you’ll have to create it yourself, right now, by getting up and getting started.
If your purpose is something larger than you—to accomplish something, to prove something to yourself—then suddenly everything becomes both easier and more difficult.
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...
In Silicon Valley, start-ups don’t launch with polished, finished businesses. Instead, they release their Minimum Viable Product (MVP)—the most basic version of their core idea with only one or two es...
In Workaholics Anonymous, one the exercises involves a simple reminder. We must, they say, catch ourselves before we relapse into ego and self-will. That is: Rest before you get tired. Check your impu...
In actuality, the will has a lot more to do with surrender than with strength. Try God willing over the will to win or willing it into existence, for even those attributes can be broken. True will is...
In its own way, the most harmful dragon we chase is the one that makes us think we can change things that are simply not ours to change. That someone decided not to fund your company, this isn’t up to...
In life our first job is this, to divide and distinguish things into two categories: externals I cannot control, but the choices I make with regard to them I do control. Where will I find good and bad...
In my experience, the books that tend to flop upon release are those where the author goes into a cave for a year to write it, then hands it off to the publisher for release. They hope for a hit that...
In outer space you develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on t...
In the novel Fight Club, the character Jack’s apartment is blown up. All of his possessions—every stick of furniture, which he pathetically loved—were lost. Later it turns out that Jack blew it up him...
In the years he conspired against Gawker, Thiel would come to see the U.S. legal system differently. He later said that, before the case against Gawker, he had believed that the problem in America was...
In under two weeks, and with no budget, thousands of college students protested the movie on their campuses nationwide, angry citizens vandalized our billboards in multiple neighborhoods, FoxNews.com...
It doesn’t matter how many people know about you or how they find out about you. It matters how many sign up. If handing out flyers on the street corner accomplishes that, then consider it growth hack...
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