Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers

TOOLS OF THE TRADE Here are some of Matt’s go-to tech enablers: P2 (WordPress theme) for replacing email—p2theme.com Slack for replacing IM—slack.com Momentum: Chrome extension to help you focus. Wunderlist: To-do management app/tool to help you get stuff done. Telegram: a messaging app with really good encryption Calm.com for meditation

“HOW TO THRIVE IN AN UNKNOWABLE FUTURE? CHOOSE THE PLAN WITH THE MOST OPTIONS. THE BEST PLAN IS THE ONE THAT LETS YOU CHANGE YOUR PLANS.”

It’s not what you know, it’s what you do consistently.

“We sat around at a restaurant, and we made a deal on a napkin: ‘We’re going to make the movie for free. We don’t want to get any salaries and we get a big back end. Ivan gave it to Tom Pollock, who was then running Universal Studios. Tom Pollock said ‘This is great, and we can make this movie for $16.5M if you guys don’t take a salary and you get

When you’re earlier in your career, I think the best strategy is to just say ‘yes’ to everything. Every little gig. You just never know what are the lottery tickets.”

“Don’t be a donkey.”

ultimately, sometimes when we judge other people, it’s just a way to not look at ourselves; a way to feel superior or sanctimonious or whatever.

True Films 3.0, contains the 200 documentaries he feels you should see before you die, and it is available as a PDF on kk.org

‘People-pleasing is a form of assholery,’ which I just loved, because you’re not pleasing

Reasons and Persons