Tom Schmidt

"Stress and worry tend to be higher before you act.

Without action, all you can do is worry.

Once you begin, fear shrinks as you start to influence the outcome."

The people who get the most done don't agonize over decisions. It's not because they have better judgment. They've just structured their lives so being wrong isn't expensive.

When mistakes are cheap, you can move fast and fix what doesn't work. When mistakes are expensive, you overthink everything and still choose wrong.

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The best questions are organizing principles, magnets, ways of seeing.

Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.

– Alfred Adler

Social media is a random series of events, no cause and effect, no escalation, no resolution. A great story is a designed series of events with a clear structure that taps into our emotions. That’s why we remember it.

People think discipline is about saying no to stuff you want, but it's actually just remembering what you really want.

"Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy."

"Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt."