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March 5 - July 14, 2018
“I really wish I looked like that again.” No problem. I’ll crack open a dusty volume from 2007, review the 8 weeks of training and food logs preceding June 5, repeat them, and—voilà—end up looking nearly the same as my younger self
Wow. Maybe I should do the same thing.
If I can’t test something or replicate results in the messy reality of everyday life, I’m not interested.
“Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.” —Pierre-Marc-Gaston
You are forced to shed artificial constraints, like shedding a skin, to realize that you had the ability to renegotiate your reality all along. It just takes practice.
spend real time with the questions you find most ridiculous in this book.
Questions are your pickaxes and competitive advantage.
More than 80% of the interviewees have some form of daily mindfulness or meditation practice
This type of practice is how you create yourself, instead of seeking to discover yourself.
Success, however you define it, is achievable if you collect the right field-tested beliefs and habits.
The superheroes you have in your mind (idols, icons, titans, billionaires, etc.) are nearly all walking flaws who’ve maximized 1 or 2 strengths.
Everyone is fighting a battle you know nothing about. The heroes in this book are no different. Everyone struggles. Take solace in that.
“Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.”
“You’re not responsible for the hand of cards you were dealt. You’re responsible for maxing out what you were given.”
I Seem to Be a Verb by Buckminster Fuller.
“Go to all the meetings you can, even if you’re not invited to them, and figure out how to be helpful. If people wonder why you’re there, just start taking notes.
Even if attendees looked at each other puzzled, Chris would sit down and let them know he’d be taking notes for them.
It was something I repeated to remind me that the pain of what I was going through was temporary and that, no matter what, at the end of that day, I would be in my bed that night.”
never forget that underneath all the math and the MBA bullshit talk, we are all still emotionally driven human beings.
In the early days of your venture, if you find someone diving too deep into the numbers, that means they are struggling to find a reason to deeply care about you.”
“The number-one theme that companies have when they really struggle is they are not charging enough for their product.
What’s the hobby? What’s the thing at night or on the weekend? Then things get really interesting.”
Born Standing Up: A Comic’s Life.
“He says the key to success is, ‘Be so good they can’t ignore you.’”
“Smart people should make things.”
“Life can be much broader, once you discover one simple fact, and that is that everything around you that you call ‘life’ was made up by people that were no smarter than you. And you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use. Once you learn that, you’ll never be the same again.”
“My goal is not to fail fast. My goal is to succeed over the long run. They are not the same thing.”
Far more money has been lost by investors trying to anticipate corrections, than has been lost in corrections themselves.’—Peter Lynch”
Having backup audio makes a good impression.
“My confidence came from my vision. . . . I am a big believer that if you have a very clear vision of where you want to go, then the rest of it is much easier.
I wasn’t there to compete. I was there to win.”
And then I’d see him for all 2 hours in the gym, always going in front of the mirror and checking out his thighs. . . . People are vulnerable about those things.
Slick Arnold!
I became a millionaire from my real estate investments.
“In negotiation, he who cares the least wins.”
Ha! I wonder how should I apply this on my job... And life.
How can I carve myself out a niche that only I have?
When deal-making, ask yourself: Can I trade a short-term, incremental gain for a potential longer-term, game-changing upside? Is there an element here that might be far more valuable in 5 to 10 years (e.g., ebook rights 10 years ago)?
“Even today, I still benefit from that because I don’t merge and bring things together and see everything as one big problem.
Divide and conquer!
he is the author of Anything You Want, a collection of short life lessons that I’ve read at least a dozen times.
He read Awaken the Giant Within by Tony Robbins (page 210) when he was 18, and it changed his life.
It’s not what you know, it’s what you do consistently.
Ricardo Semler, CEO and majority owner of the Brazil-based Semco Partners, practices asking “Why?” three times.
“So, my advice to my 30-year-old self is, don’t be a donkey. You can do everything you want to do. You just need foresight and patience.”
Lack of time is lack of priorities.
No phone calls or social media allowed.
Being busy is most often used as a guise for avoiding the few critically important but uncomfortable actions.
The Effective Executive,
How Proust Can Change Your Life.
“The people who download your book as a bad PDF aren’t your customers. They would never buy it in the first place. Look at it as free advertising.”
That's an interesting point of view!
He’s the epitome of “getting upset won’t help things.”
So I find it just as often on the entrepreneurial side. People don’t plan for success.”
I open the book I’m reading and I had used it as a bookmark. And it kind of fell out of the book on the plane. I was like: ‘Oh, my goodness!’”
I can totally relate to this!
