Play Your Own Games
Whatever you do, always initiate your own game. This is the secret of success.
Joanna Dobson • Transurfing in 78 Days — A Practical Course in Creating Your Own Reality
he more complex or valuable is whatever you’re trying to [accomplish], the more important it is for you to build a world around that idea, where other people can walk in, explore, and hang out - without you having to be there with them the whole time. You need to build a world so rich and captivating that others will want to spend time in it, even ... See more
Alex Danco • Worldbuilding and Antifragility
Better to be filled with action than ideas. Best of all to be the owner. Own and control 100% of whatever you create.
Derek Sivers • How to Live: 27 conflicting answers and one weird conclusion
The work is the point, and my work is unique. If I can do something that people find useful, then I should. It doesn’t matter if it’s a masterpiece or not, as long as I enjoy it. I’ve got my own weird angle on things that’s a useful counter-melody in the big orchestra of life.
Derek Sivers • Hell Yeah or No: what’s worth doing
The way to get out of the competition trap is to be authentic, to find the thing you know how to do better than anybody. You know how to do it better because you love it, and no one can compete with you. If you love to do it, be authentic, and then figure out how to map that to what society actually wants. Apply some leverage and put your name on i
... See moreTim Ferriss • The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
