Good Advice

Asking for feedback creates a critic. Asking for advice creates a partner.

Don’t let your worst moments become your story.

You blow the presentation and spend the drive home scripting perfect comebacks to an audience that’s already gone. Your relationship ends, and you spend months replaying conversations that can’t be changed. All the time spent perfecting the past is stolen from the future that’s still waiting.

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“Make sure you know what makes you happy, and don’t forget it.”

― Derek Sivers

“Make it clear up front what you want. Make the next steps obvious. If you have a recommendation, say it up front.”

“Life is harder when you expect a lot of the world and little of yourself.

Life is easier when you expect a lot of yourself and little of the world.

High standards, low expectations.”

“The person who learns the most in any classroom is the teacher.

If you really want to learn a topic, then “teach” it. Write a book. Teach a class. Build a product. Start a company.

The act of making something will force you to learn more deeply than reading ever will.”

“You cannot remove struggle from life, but you can improve your ability to handle challenge.”

Is the situation actually complicated or is it really quite straightforward, but you’re making it complicated because it requires a lot of courage to make the straightforward decision?

“Time will multiply whatever you feed it. Good habits make time your ally. Bad habits make time your enemy.”