The only real test of intelligence is if you get what you want out of life.
Quotes
Things other people said, that I wished I said first.
Life
Personal operating notes, mood, meaning, and how to move through the day.Writing reminds me that a wiser version of myself is available when I need that person the most.
When you're at a fork in the road, two paths you can't decide between, choose the path that makes the best story.
Stop overthinking, and start overdoing.
Collect life stories. These have value once money doesn't anymore.
Ask yourself: is this a good story?
Will your character's decision make the final cut?
Of the movie.
Ask: what's the meta-game here?
And what are the incentives?
If you can control your mood, you're unstoppable.
Limbic master.
Intensity is the strategy.
Trying to think your way out of overthinking is like trying to sniff your way out of a coke addiction.
I used to think I was limited by lack of resources like money and my network. Now I understand I've only been limited by my imagination.
There's a faster way to do whatever you want in life, if you're courageous.
Mood follows action. Self-image follows action.
We become our lowest standards, not our highest dreams.
If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.
People fall so in love with their pain, they can't leave it behind. The same as the stories they tell. We trap ourselves.
The truth knocks on the door and you say, 'Go away, I'm looking for the truth,' and so it goes away. Puzzling.
I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Business
Building, leverage, ambition, money, and doing sharper work.Courage is in shorter supply than genius.
Somebody woke up this morning with the resources that you want.
Rather than trying to find more time, money, or knowledge yourself, partner with someone who already has it.
Build like everyone is waiting.
My appetite for finding the best person in the world to do the thing instead of me doing it is almost infinite.
Accomplishment knows no hours. Progress has little to do with desks and office routine.
With or without you energy.
Hard work is not the solution. Good decision-making and high leverage is.
Make enough noise to get the resources.
You get no credit for failing cheaply.
Clarity comes from engagement, not thought.
Most people never pick up the phone, most people never ask. That's what separates the dreamers from the doers.
Every problem can be solved with the right relationship.
Success is nothing more than a progressive realisation of a worthy ideal.
Any person working towards a goal is a success, because he knows what he is doing and why.