“The ability to recognize that your wins might not signal that you did anything right in the same way your losses might not signal you did anything wrong is vital to learning something valuable from real-world feedback.”
“There is only one recipe for a best seller and it is a very simple one. You have to get the reader to turn over the page.”
“How close are you to achieving your potential? I was around five or ten percent. For the last 137 days, I think I got closer to about 60.”
“You need a philosophy and you need to write it down. And re-write it and go over it regularly. Life is too hard (and too complicated) to try to wing it and expect to do the right thing.”
“If I wait for the genius to come, it just doesn’t arrive.” — Ian Fleming
It’s the only way to accomplish them.
“If you want to learn marketing, do marketing. If you want to do marketing, it helps to learn marketing. That same symmetric property applies to just about everything we care about.”
“Challenge yourself to examine all the works in a particular space and decide which of the artworks you’d be willing to buy, which one you despise so much you’d like to burn it, and which one you love so much you’d steal it.”
“My aim was to make a list of 10 everyday things that really made me feel good, and 10 everyday things that really made me unhappy.”
“Perfectionism is, at its core, an experience of not being ‘safe’ and wanting to have some amount of control so that we feel that we can keep ourselves safe.”