The phrase that I probably use the most to myself in my head is just one word: accept.
The moment that you feel that, just possibly, you’re walking down the street naked, exposing too much of your heart and your mind and what exists on the inside, showing too much of yourself. That’s th...
The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green earth, dwelling deeply in the present moment and feeling truly alive. —THICH NHAT HANH
The key in a restaurant, and the key in any kind of high-pressure situation, I think, is that 75% of success is staying calm and not losing your nerve. The rest you figure out, but once you lose your...
The goal is not to simply eliminate the bad, which does nothing more than leave you with a vacuum, but to pursue and experience the best in the world.
The future is already here—it’s just unevenly distributed.—William Gibson
The following resources are all free and complement lessons in this book. Many of them provide jumping-off points to tools I now use on a daily or weekly basis. Links to all most gifted and most recom...
The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment. —WARREN G. BENNIS,
The end product of the shorterdeadline is almost inevitably of equal or higher quality due to greaterfocus.
The difference between winning and losing is most often not quitting. This famous line from Walt Disney on willpower cannot be more true
The crisis with all creative work is that it requires us to trust that generative voice inside us while also silencing the negative ones. It’s so easy to mix them all up and end up quietly abandoning...
The Silver Spoon, the best-selling Italian cookbook of the last 50 years.
The Master Key System by Charles F. Haanel. I have read hundreds of personal development books, but this is the one that clearly showed me how to visualize, contemplate, and focus on what it was I tru...
The Magic of Goulash The trip down the aisle [on a bus or train, during his travels] was where all the stakes were. Because as I’m going down that aisle, I’ve got to look for an empty seat next to som...
The Logic of the Double or Triple Threat On career advice, Scott has written the following, which is slightly trimmed for space here. This is effectively my mantra, and you’ll see why I bring it up: I...
The Gary Halbert Letter (también conocido como The Boron Letters) y Ogilvy on Advertising.
Success should not be measured by financial gain; true success is doing something you love for a living.
Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert (3) Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom (3) Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard P. Feynman (3) The 4-Hour Body by Tim Ferriss (3) The Bible (3) The Har...
Sometimes, you think you have to figure out your life’s purpose, but you really just need some macadamia nuts and a cold fucking shower.
So red teaming is: You take people who aren’t wedded to the plan and [ask them,] ‘How would you disrupt this plan or how would you defeat this plan?’ If you have a very thoughtful red team, you’ll pro...