Barking Up the Wrong Tree: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) Wrong

by Eric Barker

When you take a job take a long look at the people you’re going to be working with—because the odds are you’re going to become like them; they are not going to become like you. You can’t change them. If it doesn’t fit who you are, it’s not going to work.

Meaning keeps us going when stark reality says “quit.”

You can’t get what you want until you take the time to decide what you want.

As Henry David Thoreau said, “The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.”

Never ask a mentor a question Google can easily answer for you.

Confidence makes it very hard for us to learn and improve. When we think we know all the answers, we stop looking for them.

But what was the number-one regret? “I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.”