Worry will not help you finish the work.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can achieve greatly.
Am I building skills for the jobs being invented, or optimizing skills for the jobs about to disappear?
The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.
Action is the foundational key to all success.
Always focus on how far you've come, not how far you have to go.
Quitting the job is buying back your own time. I need control of my time.
Seek wealth, not money or status. Wealth is having assets that earn while you sleep.
Content and code are leverage that requires no one's permission.
Ask yourself if what you're doing today is getting you closer to where you want to be tomorrow.
Last year I made a million, but I was so poor I had no time left. I don't need financial freedom — I just need financial independence.
If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light.
Learn to build. Build to learn.
Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.
The person who pays me is the right person. The person who spends time on me is the right person.
Instead of tightening screws on an aircraft carrier, get on a rocket that's about to take off.
Your actions reflect who you really are. Your words are simply reputation management.
Everything is impossible until it's done.
While engineers immerse themselves in the solution, non-technical people immerse themselves in the problem.
Dream Big, Start Small, Iterate All.
Stop being afraid of what could go wrong and start being positive about what could go right.
Do the thing.
Don't go back just because it's familiar. Go forward because it aligns with who you're becoming.
Dream big, start small, iterate all.
Create more than you consume.
Create more than you consume.
Go beyond yourself rather than beyond others.
Everything is impossible until it's done.
The highest level of mastery is simplicity.
You are not copying the dish. You are figuring out why the dish tastes good.
If you cannot write that sentence, it means you were copying, not learning.
It is not that you lack creativity. You misunderstood what creativity is.
Creation is not inventing content. It is inventing expression.
There is no pure originality, only references you remember and references you forgot.
Great artists are never afraid of referencing others. They are afraid that the expression does not belong to them.
Creativity is never scarce. What is scarce is the ability to withstand judgment from others and from yourself.
Journey before destination.
Be grateful for your struggles, because within them is the opportunity for growth and meaning.
People will criticize you for your successes. They will criticize you for your failures. They will criticize you for acting. They will criticize you for not acting.
Do the thing.
Worry will not help you finish the work.
Greatness does not come from intelligence. It comes from character, and character is formed by smart people going through hardship.
You have to be a disaster before you become the master.
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When fishermen cannot go to sea, they repair nets. When the sea is too rough to sail, the smart ones don't wait, they get to work. They mend their nets, sharpen their tools, and prepare for the moment the storm breaks. Because even in stillness, there's progress.
Our most painful experiences become our most defining moments. They determine who we are, or who we are not.
The damage is done. The only thing that matters now is making the best choice given your current position.
Life will never be problem free.
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We are always faced with endless problems and frustrations. We need to accept our limitations and make the best of what we have.
Unhappiness is always the result of an outcome not meeting our expectations.
There is the event itself and the story we tell ourselves about what it means.
The highest level of mastery is simplicity.
The most important conversation is the conversation you have with yourself each day.
You are not your idea. If you identify too closely with your ideas, you will take offense when they are challenged.
Real effort should be the self-control of knowing what you are doing and being fully present in it.
Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow. It only saps today of its joy.
You have control over your mind — realize this, and you will find strength.
Understand more to fear less.
The temptation is often to exaggerate potential consequences, so as to spare ourselves the burden of making a bold choice.
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
Slow down, and hear the music, before the song is over.
When you're younger, it's easy to underestimate how fleeting the days can be. Each choice matters. Each day matters. When you're older, it's easy to underestimate how much opportunity you still have. Don't talk yourself out of it. It's never too late to start.
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Life actually has a high tolerance for error. Maybe we need to learn how to let go of what we already have.
Soon is not as good as now.
What the price is — and whether or not it is worth paying.
I noticed a common pattern among some progressives: if a choice is hard for disadvantaged groups, they use that as a reason not to do it themselves. But if you are not disadvantaged, that is just an excuse, not a real reason.
People can't drive you crazy if you don't give them the keys.
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Only 20% of effective communication is about what you know, while 80% is concerned with how you feel about what you know.
Friends are better than money. Almost anything money can do, friends can do better.
Human systems grow toward what they persistently ask questions about.
There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.
A client's opinion is data, not truth. A stranger's comment is noise, not feedback.
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Even when you're mad, think before you talk. The words you say can only be forgiven, not forgotten.
Inputs don't match outputs, especially for leveraged workers.
What you want in life is to be in control of your time.
The Comfortable Pain Principle: Give a man a tolerable job that pays just enough to provide mediocre comfort and I'll show you a man who won't change a thing.
A man always has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason.
If your business depends on you, you don't own a business, you have a job.
The true start-up of a business is what happens before you start up.
The unfortunate truth is that the more different goals you are working towards, the more balanced your life is, the less likely you are to get rich.
Do you have an unhealthy obsession with getting rich? Does the way you spend your time reflect an obsession with getting X?
If it flies, floats, or fornicates, always rent it.
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A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
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Share what you love, and the people who love the same things will find you.
Good work isn't created in a vacuum. Creativity is always, in some sense, a collaboration.
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The idea is not to live forever, it is to create something that will.
Make once, serve many.
waste time
There is really no such thing as wasted time. You can gain insight from things precisely because you were once absorbed in them.
The gaze from social platforms is distant and frivolous, massive and indifferent.
Do not treat what others have as something you have lost.
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