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There are two red flags to avoid almost all dangerous people: 1. The perpetually aggrieved ; 2. The angry.

By having zero expectations, I beat procrastination. Thinking about starting work creates resistance. What you’re really doing is preparing yourself to meet a standard, not start work. When your quality standards for your work are too high, you take longer to start work.

"Move toward the next thing, not away from the last thing.

Same direction. Completely different energy."

If other people having it worse than you means you can’t be sad, then other people having it better than you would mean you can’t be happy. Feel what you feel.

Choose a big decision. Teleport to your deathbed at 90.

What decision do you make at that late stage of life? Now make that decision today while you’re comparatively young. Life decisions are simpler at 90.

“I wasn’t scared of missing, looking bad, or being embarrassed. That’s because I always kept the end result, the long game, in my mind. I always focused on the fact that I had to try something to get it, and once I got it, I’d have another tool in my arsenal. If the price was a lot of work and a few missed shots, I was OK with that.

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"Creativity is the focused combination of unlikely things. Your mind locks onto a certain element and then searches widely for something unexpected that fits with it. What can scuba diving teach you about agriculture? What can trees teach you about public speaking? There is always some connective tissue between disciplines. If you wish to be more... See more

"The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are." — Carl Jung

Don’t confuse ‘doing a thing because I like it’ with ‘doing a thing because I want to be seen as the sort of person who does such things’