Motivational

“Earlier this week I ​read a line​ that stood out to me, “Your goal in life should be to reduce the amount of time it takes you to get out of a bad state.”

The ability to bounce back quickly is a key skill in life.

My wife once told me, “When you're five, you can be mad for a day. When you're ten, you can be mad for an hour. By the time you're... See more

“Whatever you're doing, do it well. If you're writing a thank you note, take an extra minute to mention something beyond the typical thank you. If you're exercising, do each set as well as you can. If you're in conversation, really listen and don't just wait for your turn to talk.

Having high standards adds up. You can nearly always find an extra... See more

Mandatory work earns you a living. Voluntary work earns you a future.

The work you do during regular hours earns you a paycheck, but it’s what you do (or don’t do) outside of those hours that earns you opportunity.

I’ve seen many people fight this insight, and almost none of them win.

When you fall in love with the process rather than the outcome, you don’t have to wait to be happy.

We avoid doing simple things that work because they don’t make us look smart.

Smart people feel stupid doing simple things, so we invent complicated alternatives that accomplish less but feel more intellectually satisfying.

Meanwhile, the people who dominate their fields are doing embarrassingly basic things, but they do them better than everyone... See more

Most complexity is unnecessary, but we manage it instead of removing it because deletion requires courage that addition doesn’t.

Your capacity for excellence is inversely proportional to the number of your commitments.