“To call what happens at midlife ‘a crisis’ is bullshit. A crisis is an intense, short-lived, acute, easily identifiable, and defining event that can be controlled and managed. Midlife is not a crisis. Midlife is an unraveling.”
“The best way to become a solopreneur is to start creating content. Costs are low, you can pivot quickly, and it’s largely passive income so you can fund follow-up efforts.”
“Want to keep readers engaged after your first paragraph? Focus on the action in each of your following sentences.”
“Stop blaming the media platforms for your own wallowing in small-minded twitter gossip about people. Strength train to the point where you decide whether to be there or elsewhere.”
“There are no experts, only varying degrees of ignorance.” — Amit Trivedi
“If you improve at anything, you are improving yourself. And the way you do anything is the way you do everything.”
“You could potentially learn more about yourself in five minutes embracing your fears than you could reading 100 books.”
“An artist’s job is to create masterpieces. Period. Everything else is secondary.”
“Breakthroughs are what happen after hours and days and years of the same mundane, monotonous work. But a mind-blowing, singular breakthrough is not what changes your life. A microshift is.”
“Our job as writers is to make it as easy as possible for our readers to grab the next line and hold on to it for dear life.”