Tom Schmidt
@neverbeneedy
Tom Schmidt
Alex Hormozi had a great line about this:
“Heroes and villains always have the same back story— pain. The difference is what they choose to do about it. Villain says ‘the world hurt me, I'll hurt it back’ Hero says ‘the world hurt me, I'm not gonna let it hurt anyone else. Heroes use pain. Villains are used by it.”
“Heroes and villains always have the same back story— pain. The difference is what they choose to do about it. Villain says ‘the world hurt me, I'll hurt it back’ Hero says ‘the world hurt me, I'm not gonna let it hurt anyone else. Heroes use pain. Villains are used by it.”
excuses
Cicero — the Roman statesman, lawyer, and philosopher — on the power of nature and knowledge:
"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need."
"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need."
3-2-1: On the best type of risk, three keys to improvement, and the purest form of generosity
When dreaming, imagine success. When preparing, imagine failure. — James Clear
33 life tips/Secret Museum of Mankind/Small egg cooker
When you fall in love with the process rather than the outcome, you don't have to wait to be happy.
Brain Food: Impatient with Effort
People think discipline is about saying no to stuff you want, but it's actually just remembering what you really want.
🌀 Open Loops #123
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This present moment was once the unimaginable future — Stewart Brand