In this book, you’ll naturally look for common habits and recommendations, and you should. Here are a few patterns, some odder than others: More than 80% of the interviewees have some form of daily mi...
If you want to help people, ask why they are in so much pain that they are driven (there’s that word again) to escape from it through ultimately self-harming habits or substances.
If you want to be tougher mentally, it is simple: Be tougher. Don’t meditate on it. These words of Jocko’s helped one listener—a drug addict—get sober after many failed attempts. The simple logic stru...
If you want an average, successful life, it doesn’t take much planning. Just stay out of trouble, go to school, and apply for jobs you might like. But if you want something extraordinary, you have two...
If you telescope out 10 years and know with 100% certainty that it is a path of disappointment and regret, and if we define risk as the likelihood of an irreversible negative outcome, inaction is the...
If you need 15 minutes in the sun to trigger a melanin response, 15 minutes is your MED for tanning. More than 15 minutes is redundant and will just result in burning and a forced break from the beach...
If you had a second heart attack and had to work two hours per week, what would you do? 3. If you had a gun to your head and had to stop doing ⅘ of different time-consuming activities, what would you...
If you don’t give young men a good and useful group to belong to, they will create a bad group to belong to. But one way or another, they’re going to create a group, and they’re going to find somethin...
If you can’t see yourself working with someone for life, don’t work with them for a day.
If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is, too. Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think. Unreasonable and unrealistic goals are ea...
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment. –Marcus Aurelius Emperor of Rome a...
If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.—Omar N. Bradley
If I want a better-than-average career, I can’t simply ‘go with the flow’ and get it. Most people do just that: they wish for an outcome but make no intention-driven actions toward that outcome. If th...
I do not believe in work-life balance. I believe that if you view your work as a calling, it is a labor of love rather than laborious. When your work is a calling, you are not approaching the amount o...
I didn’t survive, I prepared. Nelson Mandela’s answer when Tony asked him, Sir, how did you survive all those years in prison?
I also figured out that I could use my workouts as a form of meditation because I concentrate so much on the muscle, I have my mind inside the bicep when I do my curls. I have my mind inside the pecto...
Humans Use Only 10% of Their Brains? Not Quite . . . The most complex structure in the entire universe doesn’t have just a vacant parking lot waiting for someone to drive in and start building. It’s a...
Fussell, Chris: ‘Life is a series of choices—take accountability for yours.
From Japan to Monaco, from globetrotting single mothers to multimillionaire racecar drivers, the basic rules of successful NR are surprisingly uniform and predictably divergent from what the rest of t...
Estar ocupado es una forma de vagancia: pereza para pensar y acción indiscriminada. Estar ocupado sirve casi siempre para disfrazar el aplazamiento de unas pocas tareas muy importantes pero incómodas.