Do Epic Shit

by Ankur Warikoo

Nothing beats the feeling of having done more in twenty-four hours than what the day expected you to!

Others’ success will generate massive self-doubt every morning when you get up. Get up anyway.

A year from now, you will wish you had started today. Start today.

Time goes away and leaves us with only one of these two things: regret or results.

What is the single biggest thing you can do to help you towards professional success? People do not have to follow up, when you commit to doing something. That’s it.

How we think of our problems is how the world will think of our problems.

You are what you do. Not what you say you’ll do.

Commitments are nothing if not backed up with actions.

Luck happens to those that make things happen.

Luck is what eventually happens when your hard work yields results.

The result of no efforts is nothing.

The pro is the amateur who simply showed up every day.

The pro is the amateur who persisted even when nothing seemed like it was working. The pro is the amateur who refused to be called an amateur. And chose to let their hard work do the talking.

Doing what is right never comes with reasons. Because the right thing is the ultimate reason.

The biggest roadblock to learning is ego! Your ego keeps you from asking questions to those younger than you.

To know what you don’t know is power. To ask and learn what you don’t know is a superpower.

Doing the same thing over and over years does not make you gain experience in those years. Doing different things, things out of your comfort zone, to stay curious, to never rest on your laurels, to expand what you know – these truly sum up experience.

What is Experience ?

Different life aspects. Different mentors. At the same time. Mostly, who have recently gone through what you are going through.

Picking mentors truly is like picking your Subway sandwich. You get to decide everything.

In a large company, everyone is specialized in their roles. The mindset of ‘It’s not my job’ mostly helps you because it would enable the one doing their job to do it well.

Passion is persistence, because that is the reason you are still in it despite all the reasons to quit.

Passion is showing up to do the work, no matter how good you’re at it already.

The decisions about money are best made through an Excel sheet.

The decisions about people are best made with your heart.

It’s okay to ask questions. It’s okay to be genuinely curious to know more. It’s more than okay to ask even if others would think it is ‘dumb’.

What you become during the process of success and failure is what’s most important.

If you often worry about what people will think of you, you will often end up doing what people want you to do.

Being yourself is the coolest way to get attention. Which is scary for most people. Which is the reason most people don’t.

There is temporary discomfort in doing the unconventional. There is permanent discomfort in living life as a template.

It is indeed a lot of resistance to break the chains of convention and do your own thing. However, it saves you from a ton of inner resistance for the rest of your life – allowing for the path you could take, the regrets you could avoid, and the joy you could accomplish. Just by doing the unconventional and resisting the obvious.

While you are building your skills, the most important thing to build is your reputation.

Your goal is to make people say: ‘I am not sure if she knows how to do it. But I am certain if told to do it, she will definitely figure it out. I trust her.’

Just because you are good at something doesn’t automatically ensure you are happy doing it.

It is not what you do but who you are underneath that defines you.

People do not remember you for the company you keep. They remember you for who you become because of that company.

The best gift you can give yourself and to others is to take care of your own happiness.

Our problems are the stories we tell ourselves of how everything will be fine once we get what we want.

It is not the privilege that harms us. It is our lack of awareness of our own privilege that harms us.

An excuse is the distance between who you are and who you wish to be.

If your happiness depends on external validation, then your happiness depends on something you do not control.

If you do not have the money to pay for something right now, you DO NOT have the money.

Business is all about people. How well you know them. And how you treat them.

You cannot lie on stage.

Listening to someone without judgement or prescription is the most precious gift you can give someone.

To not have a plan and be okay with it is the best plan.

Avoiding the comfort trap is the difference between who you are and who you could have been.

No one owes you their time and money. You earn it, every day, by the work you do.

Money can buy you stuff. But the biggest thing it buys is freedom. Including freedom from stuff.

What you work on is just as important as how much you work on it.

Everyone is running a different race. In fact, we’re not even in a race. We’re on our own paths. Some walk. Some run.