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All of the great teachers of history owned very few things, you know.
Mother Teresa, so prosperous of heart and rich with the authentic power to influence millions, died in a tiny room containing almost no worldly goods. When she’d travel, she’d carry all her things in a white cloth bag.”
The more their appetite for superficial possessions dematerialized, the more hungry they became for substantial pursuits like honoring their creative vision, expressing their inherent genius and living by a higher moral blueprint.
contribution. Impact. Usefulness. Helpfulness.
‘to lead is to serve.’
‘Give up the drop, become the ocean.’”
The 2x3x Mindset : to double your income and impact, triple your investment in two core areas—your personal mastery and your professional capability.”
Health is the crown on the well person’s head that only the ill person can see, you know?
show up here to renew and refuel.
Elite production without quiet vacation causes lasting depletion.
Rest and recovery isn’t a luxury for anyone committed to maste...
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I’ve also learned that inspiration gets fed by isolation, away from the ceaseless digital diversion and mindless overcommunication that dominates the hours of the majority these days.
Punctuality is the trait of royalty.
Having lots of money doesn’t make you different. It just makes you more of who you were before you made the cash.”
“Flowers are very important to anyone serious about creating magic in their work and private lives,”
‘If you do not rise early you can make progress in nothing!’”
Researchers now call this kind of a core behavior that multiplies all your other regular patterns of performing ‘a keystone habit.’
Wiring it in as a profound neural pathway took some effort, a little suffering along the way and the strongest commitment I had in me.
Every great performer, whether we’re talking about a championship athlete, a top-tier executive, a celebrated architect or a revered cellist, has developed the ability to concentrate on optimizing their particular skill for long, uninterrupted periods of time.
too many people dilute their cognitive bandwidth and fragment their attention, accepting poor performances and ordinary achievements while leading lives of disappointing mediocrity.”
“Protection from distraction is precisely how you need to work if you’re serious about dominating your field and winning at your craft.
analyzing my daily routines.
how superficial I’ve been,
“The best in the world have depth.
“The grade of work you offer to the world reflects the strength of the respect you have for yourself. Those with unfathomable personal esteem wouldn’t dare send out anything average. It would diminish them too much.
“Commit to being a highly unusual human being instead of one of those timid souls who behave like everyone else, living a sloppy life instead of a magnificent one, a derivative life instead of an original one.”
As you escalate your personal and professional development, the level at which you implement and execute around your gorgeous ambitions will rise. And, of course, as your ability to make your dreams and visions into reality increases, you’ll be rewarded with greater income and higher impact,”
“And may I say that because of the way the remarkable ones saw the world and how they behaved when it came to their crafts, and because they showed up in their lives so very differently from the way the mass of humanity operates, they were called kooks. Misfits. Weirdos. They weren’t!”
rare-air.
“And ‘Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul,’ ” the artist carried on. “Alice Walker said that.”
They get that amateur levels of awareness will never lead to the highest grade of professional results.
the suggestion of the need for an obsessive attention to the most minor of details and the importance of a ridiculously rigorous approach in their pro and private lives seems odd.
Developing high awareness around the things that we do
Refining the details. Sweating the little points.
Producing with precision rather than being unprofessi...
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Their focus is more on the cash than on the craft. Their attention is on the fame, not the finesse.
listening to their hearts while ignoring their critics made personal relationships hard.
“They were perfectionists, mavericks and fanatics. This is The Dark Side of Genius. The very things that make you amazing at your craft can devastate your home life.
with better daily awareness you can make better daily choices, and with better daily choices you’ll start seeing better daily results.
rise from the community of superficiality that currently dominates the Earth up into the society of granularity.
This heightened level of insight and consciousness will then optimize your daily decisions.
heightened level of insight and c...
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True depth as it relates to how you think, behave and deliver.
Healthy perfectionism—
Mastery is a rarity, and people who play at a brilliant level are a scarcity.
There’s a ton of competition at ordinary, but there’s almost none at extraordinary.
fully present,
astoundingly polite, unusually knowledgeable, full of enthusiasm, incredibly hardworking, intensely imaginative, noticeably inventive and gaspworthily
Raise your commitment. Step up your standards.
Consistency really is the DNA of mastery.
