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Have humility. Learn from everyone you can. Even if it’s just one takeaway. *Be grateful for the many lessons you get, and realize that everything is a lesson. *Only be around people you love and who inspire you.
Health is the most important thing, else your body today won’t let you enjoy tomorrow. *Every day, be creative. Creativity is a muscle.
Children laugh an average of 300 times a day. Adults on average…five times a day.
the IRS says the average multi-millionaire has seven different sources of income.
“Happiness is based on the world ‘happenstance,’ which refers to something outside of yourself.”
Defining freedom in different ways (reducing expectations, increasing sources of income so no one source controls you).
Improving relationships. Plus, minus, equal: Finding mentors to teach you. Finding the next generation to teach. Finding friends who build you up and challenge you.
Habits. It’s the 5x5 rule. You are not just the average of the five people around you. You’re the average of the five habits you do, the things you eat, the ideas you have, the content you consume, etc.
Learning never stops. Many people die at 25 but are not put in the coffin until 75. The learning stopped for them early.
Your legacy is not what you do. It’s what the people who you teach do.
Susan Cain wrote the book Quiet about unlocking the power of introverts.
Let me summarize the seven aspects of influence: 1.Reciprocity – if you give someone a Christmas card, they will want to return the favor. 2.Likability – make yourself trustworthy. For instance, outline the negatives of dealing with you. 3.Consistency – ask someone for a favor. Now they will say to themselves, “I am the type of person who does James a favor.” 4.Social Proof – if you are trying to get someone to do X, show them that “a lot of your peers do X.” For instance, if you are at a bar and you are a guy trying to meet women, bring your women friends and not your guy friends with you.
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Speak to breathe spirit into an idea, to be enthusiastic, to convey emotion, to influence. This is the only way to have impact with your unique creativity.
book about negotiation called Never Split the Difference.
You always want to get more information in a negotiation with as little commitment as possible on your side.
“Always make sure your list is bigger than theirs so you can give up the nickels in exchange for the dimes.”
The key to success is to approach everything with humility. To know that there is always something new to learn in this surreal art of being human.
“What happens after you die?” “Lot’s of things happen after you die—they just don’t involve you.”
“‘I’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. You live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen none percent of.”
“People say, ‘My phone sucks.’ No, it doesn’t! The shittiest cellphone in the world is a miracle. Your life sucks. Around the phone.”
“Self-love is a good thing but self-awareness is more important. You need to once in a while go, ‘Uh, I’m kind of an asshole.’”
We’re as good as our weakest link. Find the parts of your life where you can jump on the steepest learning curves and make that jump.
“Everything that’s difficult you should be able to laugh about.”
“Life’s too short to be an asshole.”
“If a person is offended, then to them it is offensive. If someone else is not offended, then to them it isn’t. They are both 100% right. For them.”
“I don’t worry about how I’m doing, I just do what I’m doing.”
“Nobody remembers your bad stuff, just keep working at it and you’ll put out good stuff and that’s what they will see and remember.”
Mac Lethal. He’s the fastest rapper in the world.
“People don’t remember what they don’t like.”
Barbara Cortland broke the world record. In 1983, she wrote 23 novels. She was 82 years old.
she sold between 600 million and 2 billion books.
Picasso might know. He said, “The less art there is in painting, the more painting there is.”
Jimi Hendrix made around 70 albums before he died at age 27.
Mozart composed over 600 pieces in his lifetime. Charles Schulz made 17,897 Charlie Brown strips before
“Unless your work gives you trouble, it is no good.”
“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.”
Vonnegut said, “You can’t break the rules of grammar until you know the rules of grammar.”
“Action is the foundational key to all success.”
Kobe Bryant, one of the greatest basketball players of all time, has an incredible world record: he’s missed over 13,000 shots—more than any other player in professional basketball.
“To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.”
Picasso once said, “Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.”
“The chief enemy of creativity is good taste.”
“Everything you can imagine is real.”
Picasso also says, “I am always doing things I can’t do—that’s how I get to do them.”
What five adjectives do you want to describe your life, or the objects you create, or your relationships?”
“Find the thing you did where you lost all sense of time while you are doing it,”
Find the things that bring you meaning. Suffering is always there in this world. But if you have meaning, you will have less despair. You will find your calling.”
When you compare, you despair. When you are humble, you learn. When you get curious, you get better.
BE CURIOUS. A zero starts with: *What are they doing? *How are they doing it? *How can I help? *How can I get better? *How can I be competent? Then build trust? Then build excellence?
“First, find out what your filter is. Do you like taking pictures of people, buildings, nature?”
