Motivational

“There are two ways to live a longer life:

1) Biologically. Extend the timeline between your birth and your death.

2) Psychologically. Fit more lives into whatever time you are given.

Make each decade rich with experiences and perhaps you can live a handful of lives before you are done.”

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.

“If you want a simple formula for having a good day, then get a workout done and do your most important task before lunch. Knock out those two things by noon and you really feel like you’re ahead of the day.”

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.

“So many advantages come from being willing to look like an idiot in the short term.

You stay silent in an important meeting, afraid to voice critical thoughts and watch the project fail. You don’t write the novel because you’re afraid people might not read it. You don’t admit you were wrong and repeatedly make the same mistake. You don’t ask the... See more

“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

“A good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.”

– Lao Tzu

“It’s tough to be good at something you’re not interested in. It’s nearly impossible to be great at something you’re not obsessed with.”