Excellence / Mindset

Entrepreneur Coral Santoro on rethinking failure:

You ever notice when you take a wrong turn on Google Maps, it doesn't scream at you? It doesn't say, you idiot, you failed. It just says recalculating and gives you another route.

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That's business. That's life. You mess up, cool—reroute.

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Maybe that wrong turn saves you from a worse crash. Maybe that... See more

Psychologists call this surge of motivation at the beginning of the year the fresh start effect because temporal milestones give us permission to reset expectations and imagine a better version of ourselves. But most resolutions fade by February. That happens in part because we try to change outcomes without changing the daily experiences that... See more

If you take it slowly, concentrating on your every movement, cooking can be a deeply meditative experience. Rush it, and it becomes purely about the end result, about sustenance.

“At the higher levels of competitive swimming, something like an inversion of attitude takes place. The very features of the sport that the ‘C' swimmer finds unpleasant, the top level swimmer enjoys. What others see as boring—swimming back and forth over a black line for two hours, say—they find peaceful, even meditative, often challenging, or... See more

Actions and beliefs

It’s tempting to believe that our actions follow our beliefs. That’s what we do, it seems, and so others must as well.

In fact, just about always, our beliefs arise as a result of our actions.

If you want to change what people believe, change how they act.

Timing your overnight success

If it takes three to five years for a project to gain traction, it probably doesn’t pay to start a project that the world knows it needs right now.

The challenge is picking something the world will need then. And the hard part is patiently and persistently sticking with it despite the fact that it’s not on everyone’s... See more

Tiny Thoughts

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Your reputation isn’t what you shout, it’s what people whisper.

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Someone always has an advantage. If you don’t know who, it isn’t you.

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It's never about the outcome. It's always about the day.

A tweet about the power of your "default state"

This is genuinely great life advice disguised as a funny tweet.

If you can shift even 20% of your annoyances into amusement, your life will get substantially better.

I did my best to brainstorm a few ways to actually put this into practice.

Here's what I came up with:

Catch yourself in the first 2 seconds.... See more

nothing needs to be explained, justified, or even understood to move beyond it