Benjamin P. Hardy > Quotes

“Success isn’t that difficult; it merely involves taking twenty steps in a singular direction. Most people take one step in twenty directions.”
― Benjamin Hardy, Willpower Doesn't Work: Discover the Hidden Keys to Success

“Surround yourself with people who remind you more of your future than your past. —Dan Sullivan”
― Benjamin Hardy, Willpower Doesn't Work: Discover the Hidden Keys to Success

“The belief that you cannot change leads to a victim mentality. If you are determined by nature to be what you are, then there is nothing you can do about your lot in life. Conversely, the belief that you can change leads you to take responsibility for your life. You may have been born with certain constraints, but you can change those constraints, allowing yourself to improve and grow.”
― Benjamin Hardy, Willpower Doesn't Work: Discover the Hidden Keys to Success

“If you want a different life, you must be a different person.”
― Benjamin Hardy, Willpower Doesn't Work: Discover the Hidden Keys to Success

“Seth Godin said: “The rule is simple: the person who fails the most will win. If I fail more than you do, I will win. Because in order to keep failing, you’ve got to be good enough to keep playing.”12,13”
― Benjamin Hardy, The Gap and The Gain: The High Achievers' Guide to Happiness, Confidence, and Success

“Carol Dweck, a prominent Stanford psychologist, has found that people who believe their intelligence is fixed and unchanging have a very difficult time learning. The moment these people experience any form of difficulty or negative feedback, they mentally break and give up. Conversely, people who believe their intelligence is fluid and malleable are far more likely to grow and change. They are clay that can be transformed through experience, especially challenging and new experiences.”
― Benjamin Hardy, Willpower Doesn't Work: Discover the Hidden Keys to Success

“Becoming psychologically flexible is key to personal transformation, not overattaching to your current identity or perspectives. Becoming insatiably committed to a future purpose and embracing emotions rather than avoiding them is how radical change occurs.”
― Benjamin Hardy, Personality Isn't Permanent: Break Free from Self-Limiting Beliefs and Rewrite Your Story

“If you focus on what you lack, you lose what you have. If you focus on what you have, you gain what you lack.”6”
― Benjamin Hardy, The Gap and The Gain: The High Achievers' Guide to Happiness, Confidence, and Success

“If we do not create and control our environment, our environment creates and controls us. —Dr. Marshall Goldsmith”
― Benjamin Hardy, Willpower Doesn't Work: Discover the Hidden Keys to Success

“Your behavior doesn’t come from your personality. Rather, your personality is shaped by your behavior. When you act a certain way, you then judge yourself based on your actions. Hence, you can quickly alter your identity simply by altering your behavior.”
― Benjamin Hardy, Willpower Doesn't Work: Discover the Hidden Keys to Success

“If you’re remarkable, it’s likely that some people won’t like you. That’s part of the definition of remarkable. Nobody gets unanimous praise—ever. The best the timid can hope for is to be unnoticed. Criticism comes to those who stand out.”
― Benjamin P. Hardy, Be Your Future Self Now: The Science of Intentional Transformation

“You are not a single and narrow “type” of person. In different situations and around different people, you are different. Your personality is dynamic, flexible, and contextual. Moreover, your personality changes throughout your life, far more than you can presently imagine.”
― Benjamin Hardy, Personality Isn't Permanent: Break Free from Self-Limiting Beliefs and Rewrite Your Story

“Your time is the clearest indicator of your commitment. You can’t hide how you spend your time.”
― Benjamin P. Hardy, Be Your Future Self Now: The Science of Intentional Transformation

“Don’t join an easy crowd; you won’t grow. Go where the expectations and the demands to perform are high. —Jim Rohn”
― Benjamin Hardy, Willpower Doesn't Work: Discover the Hidden Keys to Success

“Decisions and actions are best when reverse-engineered from a desired outcome. Start with what you want and work backward. Think and act from your goal, rather than toward your goal.”
― Benjamin P. Hardy, Be Your Future Self Now: The Science of Intentional Transformation

“The way to measure your progress is backward against where you started, not against your ideal.” —Dan Sullivan”
― Benjamin Hardy, The Gap and The Gain: The High Achievers' Guide to Happiness, Confidence, and Success

“As you get better at clarifying, simplifying, and asking, you’ll receive with increased swiftness.”
― Benjamin P. Hardy, Be Your Future Self Now: The Science of Intentional Transformation

“A mistake repeated more than once is a decision. —Paulo Coelho”
― Benjamin P. Hardy, Personality Isn't Permanent: Break Free from Self-Limiting Beliefs and Rewrite Your Story

“Some questions you could ask yourself are: What is the reason or goal for this activity? What benefit am I getting from this? Where is this activity taking me?”
― Benjamin P. Hardy, Be Your Future Self Now: The Science of Intentional Transformation

“In a single moment, a person can choose to change everything. Change doesn’t have to take a long time, it happens the instant we decide. In”
― Benjamin P. Hardy, Slipstream Time Hacking: How to Cheat Time, Live More, And Enhance Happiness

“A person choosing to spend large portions of time in an unsatisfying job in order to make ends meet is on a fast track to his deathbed. Time will move increasingly faster as a result of his slow pace—the relativity of time.”
― Benjamin P. Hardy, Slipstream Time Hacking: How to Cheat Time, Live More, And Enhance Happiness

“As a species, we haven’t evolved to plan 20 years into the future. As a rule, our decision-making is myopic, shortsighted, and lacks imagination. We’re heavily incentivized to seek rewards in the present, which can greatly cost our long-term Future Selves.

[If you don't] think and strategize long term, [you'll be distracted by the short-term.]
You’ll be caught up by endless distractions throughout your day.
Your decisions will be myopic.
You’ll cost your Future Self greatly, putting them deeper in debt in all ways.”
― Benjamin P. Hardy, Be Your Future Self Now: The Science of Intentional Transformation

“Take bigger leaps. Yes, quit your job if it’s holding you back. Put yourself in a position where failure can’t be an option. In order to do that, you have to have something that truly moves and motivates you.”
― Benjamin P. Hardy, Slipstream Time Hacking: How to Cheat Time, Live More, And Enhance Happiness

“The man who has lived the most is not he who has counted the most years but he who has most felt life.” —Jean-Jacques Rousseau My”
― Benjamin P. Hardy, Slipstream Time Hacking: How to Cheat Time, Live More, And Enhance Happiness

“Sometimes we get discouraged and turn to inspirational writing, like stuff from Vince Lombardi: “Quitters never win and winners never quit.” Bad advice. Winners quit all the time. They just quit the right stuff at the right time.”
― Benjamin P. Hardy, Be Your Future Self Now: The Science of Intentional Transformation

“You are never pre-qualified to live your dreams. You qualify yourself by doing the work. By committing—even overcommitting—to what you believe you should do.”
― Benjamin P. Hardy, How to Consciously Design Your Ideal Future

“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.” —Roald Dahl”
― Benjamin P. Hardy, Slipstream Time Hacking: How to Cheat Time, Live More, And Enhance Happiness

“Knowing the why is the deepest and most powerful form of knowledge because the why is always the driver of the what and how. When you understand why the stock market goes up and down, making informed decisions about investing becomes easier. When you understand why someone does what they do, their actions and behaviors make a lot more sense.”
― Benjamin P. Hardy, Be Your Future Self Now: The Science of Intentional Transformation

“Author and philosopher, Dr. Stephen R. Covey, said, “Mental creation always precedes physical creation.”
― Benjamin P. Hardy, Be Your Future Self Now: The Science of Intentional Transformation

“Within a perceived reality, it is the responsibility of each person to choose their destinations as well as the pathways and pace involved in reaching those destinations. Ultimately, we create our own universe.”
― Benjamin P. Hardy, Slipstream Time Hacking: How to Cheat Time, Live More, And Enhance Happiness