Caroline Mays

“Do not shorten the morning by getting up late ... look upon it as the quintessence of life ... Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth.”

Behavioral scientists have long shown that specific goals are the ones that tend to lead to real wins. They have found, for example, that setting a small resolution for a day’s work motivates teams, and can do the same even if someone is working alone.

One study looked at artists who started at the bottom and worked their way to successful careers. The researchers identified one factor that was consistent across the group: they performed far more shows than the average artist.

The same principle holds true in many fields. If you want to rise, you need a lot of shots on goal. Keep showing up. Keep... See more

Most business plans are made, how-to books are written, and policies are designed by charlatans pretending to be experts. The learning of life is more about what to avoid. For e.g., avoiding cigarettes, junk food, toxic relationships, slow friends, overconfident confidants.

“I have used all my life a wonderfully simple heuristic: charlatans are recognisable in that they will give you positive advice, and only positive advice, exploiting our gullibility and sucker-proneness for recipes that hit you in a flash as just obvious, then evaporate later as you forget them.”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile

Entrepreneur Will Ahmed on living a well-rounded life:

"Success is being excited to go to work and being excited to come home."

Author and screenwriter Ray Bradbury on the difference between critics and creators:

"Those who don't build must burn."

Source: Fahrenheit 451

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