Tom Schmidt

"Luck flows through people and travels by conversation. The people you talk to determine the opportunities you find.

Keep talking to the same people, keep finding the same opportunities. Start talking to new people, start finding new opportunities.

If you want different luck, start walking into different rooms."

"The best view of the game is probably from the stands. But that's not where the action is. And so you have to decide, do you want a nice view or do you want to be in the thick of it and playing the game?"

The more predictable a message is, the less information it contains. A universe full of identical people producing identical experiences would contain no information at all.

to live with godlike composure on the full rush of energy, like Dionysus riding the leopard, without being torn to pieces.

The 13th Century Sufi Poet Rumi said, “You are not a drop in the ocean, you are the entire ocean in a drop.”

What’s left is awareness, and at any moment, awareness is aware of something, experiencing something. You are awareness itself, and if you’ll allow me to stretch one step further, you are what you experience .

“think boldly, act courageously, and design a future worthy of our highest aspirations.””

— We Are as Gods: A Survival Guide for the Age of Abundance by Peter H. Diamandis, Steven Kotler

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