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Clarity of WHY
Discipline of HOW
Consistency of WHAT

(... continued) Those things matter, they provide us the tangible things we can point to to rationalize our decision making, but they don't set the course and they don't inspire behaviour.

Because our biology complicates our ability to verbalize the real reasons why we make the decisions we do, we rationalize based on more tangible factors, like the design or the service, or the brand. This is the basis for the false assumption that price or features matter more than they do. (Continued...)

Like the products the company produces that serve as proof of the company's WHY, so too does a brand or product serve as proof of an individual's WHY.

People don't buy WHAT you do, they buy WHY you do it.

If companies don't know why their customers are their customers, odds are good that they don't know why their employees are their employees either.

Only once you give yourself permission to stop trying to do it all, to stop saying yes to everyone, can you make the highest contribution towards things that really matter.

You don't have to understand life. You just have to live it.

Regrets don't leave. They weren't mosquito bites. They itch forever.

She wondered if her parents had ever been in love or if they had got married because marriage was something you did at the appropriate time with the nearest available person. A game you grabbed the first person you could find when the music stopped.

While coal and diamonds are both carbon, coal is too impure to be able, under whatever pressure, to become a diamond. According to Science, you start off as coal and you end up as coal. Maybe that was the real life lesson.

After a while you could get used to anything.

यह औरत ज़ात होकर तो मेरी बड़ी मिट्टी ख़राब हुई।

The time is going to pass anyway. The only question is how you use it and where you are going to end up at the end of the weeks and months that pass.

What you choose to do over and over eventually becomes a habit that is hard to break.

You need three key qualities to develop the habits of focus and concentration, which are all learnable. They are decision, discipline, and determination.

An average person who develops the habit of setting clear priorities and getting important tasks completed quickly will run circles around a genius who talks a lot and makes wonderful plans but who gets very little done.

Archetypes are the heartbeat of a brand because they convey a meaning that makes customers relate to a product as if it actually were alive in some way. They have a relationship with it. They care about it.

Developing the most critical element of what our brand represents too often is a careless or frivolous process. Thus, it is no wonder that marketing teams keep reinventing the brand and, in doing so, dilute or destroy its meaning.

Meaning speaks to the feeling or intuitive side of the public; it creates an emotional affinity, allowing the more rational arguments to be heard.

We all love stories, and we need them. From fables to novels, from musicals to advertising, we instinctively crave stories which can provide the human context for forces that are often vast, ancient, and abstract. Stories are the best teachers.

Adults are deteriorated children.

Your surroundings really do shape your perceptions, your inspirations and your implementations. Art feeds my soul. Great books battleproof my hope. Rich conversations magnify my creativity. Wonderful music uplifts my heart. Beautiful sights fortify my spirit. And all it takes is a single morning filled with positivity to deliver a monumental download of inventive ideas that elevate an entire generation.

It’s a little miracle how powerfully and profoundly our influences and environments shape our productivity as well as our impact.

The moment when you most feel like giving up is the instant when you must find it in you to press ahead.”

You can fit in. Or you can change the world. You don’t get to do both.

Like people first, ask questions later. See if the light you shine on others isn't reflected back on you a hundredfold.

A friend is a gift you give yourself.

If it were supposed to feel good, they wouldn't call it a crush.

Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.