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“After spending decades studying how people deal with setbacks, psychologist Martin Seligman found that three P's can stunt recovery: (1) personalization - the belief that we are at fault; (2) pervasiveness - the belief that an event will affect all areas of our life; and (3) permanence - the belief that the aftershocks of the event will last forever.”
― Adam Grant, Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy

“Meyer summarizes his code of honor as "(1) Show up, (2) Work hard. (3) Be kind. (4) Take the high road.”
― Adam Grant

“A fit body, a calm mind, a house full of love. These things cannot be bought — they must be earned.”
― Naval Ravikant

“Forty hour workweeks are a relic of the Industrial Age. Knowledge workers function like athletes — train and sprint, then rest and reassess.”
― Naval Ravikant

“Knowledge is a skyscraper. You can take a shortcut with a fragile foundation of memorization, or build slowly upon a steel frame of understanding.”
― Naval Ravikant

“Competing without software is like competing without electricity.”
― Naval Ravikant

“If it entertains you now but will bore you someday, it's a distraction. Keep looking.”
― Naval Ravikant, HOW TO GET RICH:

“Reading is the ultimate meta-skill that can be traded for anything else.”
― Naval Ravikant

“To the experts, what looks like hard work from the outside, is play from the inside.”
― Naval Ravikant

“If you’re good with computers, if you’re good at basic mathematics, if you’re good at writing, if you’re good at speaking, and if you like reading, you’re set for life.”
― Naval Ravikant, HOW TO GET RICH:

“The people who have the ability to fail in public under their own name actually gain a lot of power.”
― Naval Ravikant

“The means of learning are abundant, the desire to learn is scarce”
― Naval Ravikant, HOW TO GET RICH:

“Specialisation is for insects. I don't believe in this model of trying to focus your life down one thing. You've got one life just do everything you want.”
― Naval Ravikant

“The smarter you get, the slower you read.”
― Naval Ravikant

“Renting out your time means you’re essentially replaceable”
― Naval Ravikant, HOW TO GET RICH:

“Any meeting with eight people sitting around at a conference table, nothing is getting done in that meeting. You are literally just dying one hour at a time.”
― Naval Ravikant

“Alexander said that it was preferable to have an army of sheep led by a lion than an army of lions led by a sheep.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life

“Discipline equals freedom.”
― Jocko Willink, Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win

“If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.”
― Epictetus

“Any person capable of angering you becomes your master;
he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.”
― Epictetus

“The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests. ”
― Epictetus

“Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness”
― Epictetus

“Some people, after all, enjoy looking at a watch; others are happier figuring out how the watch works.”
― Kobe Bryant, The Mamba Mentality: How I Play

“A lot of people say they want to be great, but they’re not willing to make the sacrifices necessary to achieve greatness.”
― Kobe Bryant, The Mamba Mentality: How I Play