Young Leaders 3.0 Quotes

“Embrace high expectations from “demanding” parents if what they are demanding is your positive growth and learning.”
― Jason L. Ma, Young Leaders 3.0: Stories, Insights, and Tips for Next-Generation Achievers

“Bridge miscommunications by talking to parents, hearing their stories, and learning how they’ve shaped yours.”
― Jason L. Ma, Young Leaders 3.0: Stories, Insights, and Tips for Next-Generation Achievers

“Passionately develop a positive and pragmatic psychology; a fine skill set; strategic thinking; and execution effectiveness.”
― Jason L. Ma, Young Leaders 3.0: Stories, Insights, and Tips for Next-Generation Achievers

“In life, school, or work, you must resourcefully act with purpose, curiosity, and wisdom toward positive outcomes, if not a vision.”
― Jason L. Ma, Young Leaders 3.0: Stories, Insights, and Tips for Next-Generation Achievers

“CONCLUDING ADVICE A core piece of wisdom I want to impart to teenagers and young adults is this: In life, school, or work, you must resourcefully act with purpose, curiosity, and wisdom toward positive outcomes, if not a vision. Passionately develop a positive and pragmatic psychology; a fine skill set; strategic thinking; and execution effectiveness. Continuously practice, strengthen, and expand this repertoire in you. Doing so will help you go a long way. You will become even more successful, more effective in powering through obstacles, fear, and failures, and more fulfilled in life, school, or work. Managing failures and mistakes made—including bouncing back from”
― Jason L. Ma, Young Leaders 3.0: Stories, Insights, and Tips for Next-Generation Achievers

“In order to have a healthy mind, you need a healthy body (and vice versa). Find quiet time by yourself to prioritize, reflect, reorganize, and plan. In college it is very easy to get caught up in exams and extracurriculars. But it is important to stop every now and then, to just clear your mind of the stresses you have and think about the bigger picture. Ask yourself purposeful questions about your goals. Talking to others is important as well. In order to cope with the stresses of college life, you have to have a support system. Some of the best moments among college friends arise when people genuinely share their thoughts, without actively trying to impress each other. While it is perfectly normal to shift”
― Jason L. Ma, Young Leaders 3.0: Stories, Insights, and Tips for Next-Generation Achievers

“network of my mentees, students, and book readers will shine as value-added, good-hearted leaders and citizens of the world. Related to the Young Leaders 3.0 theme, I plan to conduct purposeful seminars and conferences tailored to high schoolers, college and university students, young adults just recently launched into the world, parents, and business executives in phases. I will also be actively contributing and hopefully inspiring on the speaking circuit. In addition, I may consider planning and offering new, value-added programs and services both at home and abroad. I hope that along the way, one or more of these events, programs, or services will add significant value to you”
― Jason L. Ma, Young Leaders 3.0: Stories, Insights, and Tips for Next-Generation Achievers

“open-minded always Inspire and empower my mentees/students, clients, and teammates Learn and grow continuously, and innovate often Execute pragmatically and with integrity Have some fun and don’t hold back on humor What is next for Young Leaders 3.0? My mission forward is to enhance and perhaps even transform the minds of teenagers and young adults and to influence parents and business executives around the world. My vision includes an exciting world in which a dynamic global”
― Jason L. Ma, Young Leaders 3.0: Stories, Insights, and Tips for Next-Generation Achievers

“leaders in this book have achieved successes from their purposeful strategies and actions, as well as trials and tribulations, so can you. Apply at least some of what you have learned in this book. Be outcome-focused, purpose-driven, and action-oriented. Your resolve truly tests who you are and who you want to be! Finally, my own professional core values, which are similar to my personal core values, are as follows. I challenge you to think through and write out your own! Contribute profoundly to my clients toward a vision Build trusting and genuine working relationships Be passionate, creative, and open-minded”
― Jason L. Ma, Young Leaders 3.0: Stories, Insights, and Tips for Next-Generation Achievers

“good storyteller, build good relationships internally and externally with key ecosystem constituents, take calculated risks, be quickly adaptable and flexible, communicate humbly but firmly, recruit all the time, implement sound business processes, and execute-execute-execute pragmatically within your ecosystem with purpose! If not, success will be just a pipe dream or fleeting experience, as building a start-up successfully is quite difficult. And great ideas don’t just come to you. You must pursue them. Regardless of what your vision for the future is, find ways to keep strengthening your pragmatic combination of mind-set, skill set, direction, strategies, know-how, and execution! If the featured young”
― Jason L. Ma, Young Leaders 3.0: Stories, Insights, and Tips for Next-Generation Achievers

“but with complementary skills and know-how for the core team (absolutely the founders) make certain to climb the ladder on the appropriate wall as you’re starting out—that is, identifying and targeting the right growing market add lots of value to your clients/customers through your product and services differentiate clearly what you do in comparison to your competitors, all the while remembering whom you and your team serve keep innovating Furthermore, if you are entrepreneurial, you need to craft and implement a strong marketing and distribution strategy, be a”
― Jason L. Ma, Young Leaders 3.0: Stories, Insights, and Tips for Next-Generation Achievers

“enemies at all costs, and permit yourself to destroy them. Rest assured that reputable colleges, universities, and employers can detect, and rightly despise, cheating and laziness, which are reflective of poor character. Focus instead on sound values and hard work. These will both pay off for you in the end. Smile genuinely, everywhere, or learn to do so; this radiates outward and affects people positively! If you want to be an entrepreneur, then please heed this advice: Entrepreneurship is hard. In no particular order, you need to attract and work with only A-game players who share your vision, values, mission, goals, and chemistry”
― Jason L. Ma, Young Leaders 3.0: Stories, Insights, and Tips for Next-Generation Achievers

“opportunities. Make sure that you are connecting with good people and for the right reasons—not wasting a disproportionately huge amount of time by yourself or with your so-called buddies on lost causes, aimlessness, or addictive habits of the wrong kind like video games or watching brain-dead stuff on the Internet and TV. Going down that path only results in opportunity costs, and it malnourishes your neurons, which then end up making poor synaptic connections in your brain, leaving you numb. A little bit of gaming, occasional web surfing, and TV is fine, but not too often. Lack of integrity and laziness are your enemies—at home, in school, in your community, and at work. Avoid these”
― Jason L. Ma, Young Leaders 3.0: Stories, Insights, and Tips for Next-Generation Achievers

“reading ebooks and print books, and is incredibly convenient (it can be done while driving, walking, or making coffee). Many of the most effective people learned to become world-class learners. Apply the power of proximity. Find role models. Befriend and learn from mentors. Make friends with people smarter than you and more successful in fields you are interested in. Build not just networks but genuine relationships; when you collaborate with these key people, you can lean on them when a need arises. Break away from consistent groupthink. Talk with and learn from people different from you. Be open to dialogue with acquaintances and even select strangers, as you may uncover interesting”
― Jason L. Ma, Young Leaders 3.0: Stories, Insights, and Tips for Next-Generation Achievers

“have the power to change it. To me, learning is adventurous and enjoyable and must be never-ending. Be intellectually curious always. Learn by osmosis. Learn by doing as well as by studying, by yourself and with other people. Learn how to learn. Ask intelligent questions. Your thoughts are essentially internal conversations or a series of questions and answers by your inner voice. How can you ask good questions and be able to come up with sound answers if you haven’t learned? Leaders are readers and listeners. Read good books, especially nonfiction ones to help nourish your mind, heart, and soul. Listening to audiobooks (which is a huge growing trend) is often just as effective as”
― Jason L. Ma, Young Leaders 3.0: Stories, Insights, and Tips for Next-Generation Achievers

“comparing yourself with others. Measure your success only against what you are capable of achieving. If you are in college, the college you attend does not define you; it is what you make of it. Nothing beats hard work with focus and passion. Stretch yourself. Be resourceful, creative, and open-minded in all sorts of situations. Plan ahead and act with purpose, but allow room to explore, experiment, and discover. Be multifaceted. Build your emotional and mental muscles in tenacity, resilience, and perseverance. Don’t be surprised if a breakthrough emerges from a well-managed crisis. Don’t be afraid to be an influential and innovative change-maker. Don’t accept the status quo if you know things must be improved and you”
― Jason L. Ma, Young Leaders 3.0: Stories, Insights, and Tips for Next-Generation Achievers

“surgery, which would necessitate well-timed, perfect precision in execution.) Grow by purposefully contributing, connecting, and learning, with doses of compassion. Give your time and add real value in good causes. Communicate empathetically and clearly, and keep learning to do so. Inspire others. You will very likely end up getting more by giving. Over time, your good deeds will translate subconsciously to solid success habits. Keep at it, and you will find your identity and confidence enhanced. Without contribution and growth, you will not be fulfilled. Without fulfillment, you may not feel truly successful. Your biggest competitor should only ever be yourself. Avoid the trap of”
― Jason L. Ma, Young Leaders 3.0: Stories, Insights, and Tips for Next-Generation Achievers

“athletes and other incredibly accomplished individuals to trigger themselves into peak performance states? Imagine how satisfying it will be for you to spend the bulk of your time in positive and highly productive and flow states! Some more tips on how to build a positive and pragmatic psychology The good news is that you neither need to be perfect nor become a saint! In most cases, aim for high quality but avoid the trap of absolute perfectionism that is unnecessary and consumes much more time and energy than called for; use your best judgment. (Notable exceptions to whether perfectionism is called for would be rare events such as brain or heart”
― Jason L. Ma, Young Leaders 3.0: Stories, Insights, and Tips for Next-Generation Achievers

“to highest in quality. Your results subsequently affect your beliefs, and at times, even change those beliefs, if not your own story in your head. The lesson here, if not a critical success factor, is to consciously and continuously strengthen the quality of your belief system, inner voice, and physiology, empowering your mind and body and stretching their thresholds and tolerance for obstacles and making way for creative thoughts. Doing so means you will spend and enjoy a lot more time in productive and positive states, and increasingly more time in high-performance or flow states, producing more positive outcomes. The best state is a peak or flow state. Have you noticed how easy it is for champion”
― Jason L. Ma, Young Leaders 3.0: Stories, Insights, and Tips for Next-Generation Achievers

“people, the language you use to communicate with others. Your mental focus and your physiology together instantly put you into a particular state or emotion. Physiology absolutely matters. Exercising, or better yet, implementing a complete fitness program (in other words a regimen that safely works both your cardio and muscles—even yoga!) increases the effective use of oxygen and gets rid of waste throughout your brain and body, and helps soothe your soul. Emotional states of mind, which range from the worst (a suicidal state) to the best (a peak or flow state), are powerful. Your state drives actions, decisions, and even indecision, and is the direct predictor of results somewhere between the lowest”
― Jason L. Ma, Young Leaders 3.0: Stories, Insights, and Tips for Next-Generation Achievers

“between your mind and soul, and (2) your range of states of mind, which is your set of emotions and facets of your personality. Your beliefs comprise essentially general rules and principles and if-then statements in your brain. Your core values are the strongest beliefs and desired emotional outcomes in your belief system. Beliefs can be changed, but only if processed through the subconscious mind, which has accumulated vast experiences in life and is subtly more powerful than the conscious mind. At any given moment, what you mentally focus on derives from both your beliefs and your self-talk (aka your inner voice) and, if you are presently with”
― Jason L. Ma, Young Leaders 3.0: Stories, Insights, and Tips for Next-Generation Achievers

“positive and helpful effects on you and the society as a whole!). True leaders—teenage to middle-age—are committed and act in ways that take into consideration purposeful outcomes or a vision, with focus, passion, and resilience. They develop and then follow a clear road map to get from where they are to where they desire to be. What does pragmatic psychology mean to you, specifically? Allow me to expand a bit on what I mean when I talk about pragmatic psychology, if it hasn’t yet begun to crystallize for you. Your psychology comprises (1) your belief system, which projects your character and narrative about yourself and is the glue”
― Jason L. Ma, Young Leaders 3.0: Stories, Insights, and Tips for Next-Generation Achievers

“weren’t clear yet, they would work toward developing clarity of goals because clarity is a must. Unclear or unnecessary complexity is an enemy to accomplishment. Winners apply and align both EQ and logic with purpose. Their empowering and positive beliefs and emotions radiate within themselves and onto others. They are purposefully and persistently action-oriented because without astute and effective execution, nothing matters. Strong leaders, especially successful and creative entrepreneurs, also have a compelling vision. I believe that a great way to predict the future is to create it (in my case, a vision of the future in which writing and publishing this book has”
― Jason L. Ma, Young Leaders 3.0: Stories, Insights, and Tips for Next-Generation Achievers

“hours per week and 24 hours per day of their own time. I attempt to conscientiously use time well weekly and daily, and am always learning to enhance my own skills of time management and resource allocation. So should you. Without a positive and strong mind, time and energy will be wasted, and rarely anything will work well. (Among the plethora of productivity-enhancement and time-management tools and programs I have come across, I think Tony Robbins’s Rapid Planning Method (RPM) is by far the best and most effective.) Most successful people tend to start with the end in mind. They are clear on what outcomes or results they want and why achieving them is important. If they”
― Jason L. Ma, Young Leaders 3.0: Stories, Insights, and Tips for Next-Generation Achievers

“success that can be reapplied over and over again. Planning, organizing, and executing based on (strategic) priorities are key to success, and your priorities should stem from your positive values, not on habitual superficial gratification or pain avoidance (for example, spending lots of time aimlessly surfing the Internet). Most people unfortunately tend to act first and think later, which is the opposite of how it should be. Saying yes is easy and saying no may be hard but will make you a lot more successful over time. To me, time is the most precious resource in life. Even billionaires share with us mortals exactly this same resource and cannot buy more than 168”
― Jason L. Ma, Young Leaders 3.0: Stories, Insights, and Tips for Next-Generation Achievers

“mentees to focus their time and energy on the causes (for example, replacing a limiting belief with an empowering one or sharpening practical relationship building and oratory skills), not on the effects (for example, spending time and energy worrying or feeling sorry for yourself or being consumed with negative self-talk about not getting a desired role at a target organization). In addition to nourishing their mind and spirit, I teach them on how to fish and fly better so they can soar, adding to their arsenal of confidence-enhancing achievements and skills. With sound causes, positive effects will typically take care of themselves. It’s wise to track both causes and effects. Doing so will help you learn valuable patterns of”
― Jason L. Ma, Young Leaders 3.0: Stories, Insights, and Tips for Next-Generation Achievers

“pragmatic psychology, skill set, strategy, and execution may just make you hard to beat! The commonly touted 80-20 rule in business states that roughly 80 percent of effects (outcomes) result from 20 percent of the causes. I prefer to think of it in the sense that about 80 percent of our results can come from 20 percent of our activities. I also believe that people should focus 80 percent of their time on (thinking about, planning, and implementing) the solution and not on (bickering and complaining endlessly about the people or the issues around) the problem, and that success stems from roughly 80 percent psychology and 20 percent mechanics. That being said, I coach my own”
― Jason L. Ma, Young Leaders 3.0: Stories, Insights, and Tips for Next-Generation Achievers

“achieve, the compelling (emotional and logical) reasons the achievements will be important to you, and the consistent methods you employ to get there. This intelligence encompasses what, why, for whom, with whom, when, where, and how you use your apps (skills) and other resources. It is wise to craft and execute a strategy for any given type of vision or outcome you want to achieve. Your execution is equivalent to your entire “system” actively working to purposefully, resourcefully, and effectively get things done, preferably with high signal-to-noise ratio. If your execution is poor, nothing matters. A combination of strong, positive, and”
― Jason L. Ma, Young Leaders 3.0: Stories, Insights, and Tips for Next-Generation Achievers

“equivalent to an operating system (OS), such as iOS or Android. I am sure you want a quality OS and see it periodically upgraded and increasingly become more powerful and useful. Your skill set is equivalent to the useful apps that you can use on your devices. Likewise, I am certain you want your apps to be frequently updated, including bug fixes, reliability improvements, and feature enhancements—and that you add apps as needed or desired. Your strategic thinking is equivalent to the intelligence in your OS and apps (working together) that define the outcomes or results you want to”
― Jason L. Ma, Young Leaders 3.0: Stories, Insights, and Tips for Next-Generation Achievers

“miscalculations, learning quickly, and moving on—is much easier with a strong mind-set to begin with. Failures often help make emotionally healthy people even better and stronger. With a strong mind, you may even make a breakthrough after a crisis or failure. You can learn to condition your mind and body and enhance your EQ. I will explain why and how in this section. But first, here is an analogy that helps distill and define above components, given that your generation is far more technically astute in our increasingly interconnected, sophisticated, and inundated digital age: Your pragmatic psychology in your brain and nervous system is”
― Jason L. Ma, Young Leaders 3.0: Stories, Insights, and Tips for Next-Generation Achievers