- Don’t compare.
- Begin with the end in mind. 1
- Be content and always happy.
- Never complain. 2
- Do one thing at a time. 3
- Do it well and master it, don’t do more.
- Protect your attention. 4
- Be strict with yourself and lenient with others.
- Work at sunrise and rest at sunset.
- Be a useful and friendly person.
- Don’t waste time, not even a second.
- In conversation, replace judgment with curiosity.
- Pursue the epitaph, not the résumé. 5 6 7
- Learn to rest, not to lower your standards. 8
- Empathize with others; put yourself in their shoes and think from their perspective.
- Whenever any thought appears in your mind, write it down. 9 10
- Share with those who want to hear, and listen to those who want to share. 11
- Open-source your knowledge base; don’t just keep it in a note-taking app.
- The phone is toxic; every time you pick it up, ask: Why am I using it?
- Reject mediocrity, while also striving to make yourself look very mediocre.
- Work quietly, put in effort without a goal, and let the results speak for themselves. 12 13
- Let go of attachments, let things be, go with the flow, and follow the energy flow. 14
- Start acting before you’re ready; stop before you’re exhausted. 15
- Let go of your ego, don’t take yourself too seriously, and at the same time be very confident.
- Stop chasing fleeting external things; focus on what only labor can earn. 16
- Don’t believe too much in what you believe, maintain a beginner’s mindset, and embrace ignorance. 17
- Give up things without compounding effects; only play infinite games with no finish line. 18
- Once you decide to commit to something, do it with the mindset of “I want to become the best in the world”; otherwise don’t touch it at all. 19
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“If you don’t know where you’re going, you might not like where you end up.” — David Bach, The Latte Factor ⌃
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“If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. Don’t complain.” — Maya Angelou ⌃
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“Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.” — Alexander Graham Bell ⌃
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“You become what you give your attention to.” — Epictetus ⌃
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In seeking profit, seek the world’s profit; in seeking fame, seek fame for ten thousand generations. ⌃
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“Decide what you would like your obituary to say, and live the life to deserve it.” — Warren Buffet in his final letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders ⌃
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“Whatever you do, strive to do it so well that no man living and no man dead and no man yet to be born could do it any better.” — Benjamin Mays ⌃
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“Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.” — Hector Berlioz ⌃
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A bad pen is better than a good memory. ⌃
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Learn not to explain; the highest form of showing off is not showing off. ⌃
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Just shoot. Don’t aim. Work hard in silence. Let your work make the noise. ⌃
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“Don’t aim at success. The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one’s surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it. I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long-run—in the long-run, I say!—success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think about it.” — Viktor E. Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning ⌃
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“The Dao constantly does nothing, yet nothing is left undone.” — Laozi, Tao Te Ching, Chapter 37 ⌃
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Start before you’re ready. Stop before you’re exhausted. ⌃
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For example: a healthy body, a calm mind, a loving home. ⌃
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“Because a huge percentage of the stuff that I tend to be automatically certain of is, it turns out, totally wrong and deluded.” — David Foster Wallace ⌃
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“All the benefits in life come from compound interest - relationship, money, learning, habits - anything of importance.” — Naval Ravikant ⌃
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“If you’re not 100% into it, somebody else who is 100% into it will outperform you. And they won’t just outperform you by a little bit, they’ll outperform you by a lot.” — Naval Ravikant ⌃
