One of the most important tricks for maximizing your productivity involves matching your mental state to the task.
I was no longer surprised to find unlocked doorsin the city. Maybe at some subconscious level we don’tbelieve we need protection from our own species.
Goals are for losers. Your mind isn’t magic. It’s a moist computer you can program. The most important metric to track is your personal energy. Every skill you acquire doubles your odds of success. Ha...
Everything you want out of life is in that huge, bubbling vat of failure. The trick is to get the good stuff out.
But Trump apparently wanted to squeeze some extra juice from the word lying and make his branding stand out. So he insisted that Lyin’ Ted was the proper spelling, not Lying Ted. This was good brandin...
Always remember that as long as other people are gullible, there's no limit to what you can achieve.
You can't accommodate a hundred different opinions,and you can't ignore them. All you can do is provide people with theillusion that they participated in the decision. For some reason, that'senough to...
The source of all unhappiness is other people. As soon as you learn tothink of other people as noisy furniture, the sooner you will be happy.
If you believe people use reason for the important decisions in life, you will go through life feeling confused and frustrated that others seem to have bad reasoning skills.
If you are proven to be right a hundred times in a row,no amount of evidence will convince you that you are mistakenin the hundred-and-first case. You will be seduced byyour own apparent infallibility...
I would define an asshole as anyone who chooses to make the lives of others less pleasant for reasons that don’t appear productive or necessary.
I made a list of skills in which I think every adult should gain a working knowledge. I wouldn't expect you to become a master of any, but mastery isn't necessary. Luck has a good chance of finding yo...
For our purposes, let’s say a goal is a specific objective that you either achieve or don’t sometime in the future. A system is something you do on a regular basis that increases your odds of happines...
Clinical psychologists have proven that ordinary peoplewill alter their memories of the past to make them fittheir perceptions. It is the way all normal brains functionunder ordinary circumstances.