Truth

So this is the one piece of advice I give everyone who will listen: Start something just to make your life more exciting . It doesn’t matter how small it starts (or stays). Personal projects are a vehicle to explore the things that interest you.

“ Write about where you’ve been and where you’re going. Become a niche of one .”

Take great care to avoid mistakes when the decision is hard to reverse.

But! If you make a mistake that is hard to reverse, there is no sense beating yourself up about it. Your responsibility is to make the best next choice given your current position. You must always make the most of the situation you are in.

Next play mentality.

The biggest regret millionaires hold?

Sacrificing their non-negotiables for success.

Humans are 6x more loss-averse than reward-driven.

Don't only think about your goals.

Also, create "anti-goals" for what you don't want.

What you outsource will atrophy.

"Five years from now, what will your future self think of your current self? Will you even be the same person?"

Success is built in rooms no one would photograph.

The people who change things aren’t at the parties, they’re home on Friday night, obsessed with problems everyone else finds tedious. Their Instagram looks empty because their life isn’t shareable. Just the same unsexy routine, day after day. They aren’t doing anything glamorous. They’re just... See more

Author Bob Goff on wanting the right things:

“I used to be afraid of failing at the things that really mattered to me, but now I’m more afraid of succeeding at things that don’t matter.”