“Most of us read the wrong things. As Haruki Murakami put it, reading what everyone else reads means you’re probably going to think what everyone else thinks.”
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How To Be Calm Under Pressure
“The secret to calm and focus is knowing the next step. Ignore thoughts that aren’t helpful. Make a decision. Focus on the next step and you won’t panic.”
Most Risk Takers Are Actually Risk Averse
“Humans love rags-to-riches stories. We worship college dropouts like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Oprah Winfrey. We love how they risked it all and made it big. But is that really how things happened? The truth is, successful risk takers are often very, very risk averse.”
How Louis CK Tells A Joke
“There are 207 words in this joke and not a single one is wasted. They’re used either in meaning or in rhythm to contribute to the overall effect, an effect that lets us see the world from a different angle. Like great poetry, great standup comedy is language distilled to its most potent form.”
A New Way To Use Your Calendar
“I’ve always defaulted to the idea that my main work would fit in the empty slots, after everything else has been scheduled. (Just writing that out makes me realize how silly that was.) Instead, I very much recognize the value in having the most important things scheduled.”
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“‘I’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. You live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen none percent of.” — Louis CK
Why You Like What You Like
“Our acts of approval on social media aren’t always directly related to our judgment of quality, be it quality of design, editing, or humor. We aren’t really saying ‘Your life is wonderful and you’re a dab hand with a camera too,’ we’re saying, ‘I relate to that somehow.’ But we relate in both positive and negative ways.”
13 Things To Give Up To Be More Successful
“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
The Quickest Way To Get More Of What You Want
We all want more.
More attention. More money. More success.
But to get it, we must change one word in our approach.
The way to “get” more is to “give” more, so we must ask ourselves how we can give more.
When we focus on how best to give instead of get, amazing things happen.
Because our value is a direct result of the value we create for others.
If we seek attention, we must first figure out how to drive attention to others.
If we seek money, we must first figure out how to generate it for others.
And if we seek success, we must first figure out how to help others succeed.
The better we give, the more we will get in return.
Because the quickest way to get more of what we want is to give it to others. That’s how value is created.
So when you figure out what you want more of, don’t ask yourself how you can get it — ask how you can give more of it to others.
The answer to that question is the only one that matters.
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“I think every game can be beaten.”