Tom Schmidt

“The world is not designed to give you a good life. It's designed to distract you from building one.”

Simplify first, strip out everything except what actually makes the problem interesting Encircle it with existing answers to similar questions and fin

You only get one life and you’re going to burn the days either way, so the real question is: What excites you and interests you? What makes you feel c

focusing your energy on the critical few rather than the trivial many

Every complaint about you is also a commercial for you—after all, nobody bothers to yell at a nobody.

May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears

People think good decision-making is about being right all the time. It's not. It's about lowering the cost of being wrong and changing your mind. Wh