Game Changers Quotes

“I have learned to prioritize my actions into three buckets: things that drain my energy, things I don’t mind and are important and useful, and things that give me energy and bring me joy. My goal is to break my daily actions down so that I spend none of my time on tasks that fall into the first category, 10 percent of my time on the second category, and 90 percent of my time in the final category, the one that Robert Greene calls primal inclinations. When I find myself drifting too far from the goal, I reset my actions.”
― Dave Asprey, Game Changers: What Leaders, Innovators, and Mavericks Do to Win at Life

“You can build your “willpower muscle” the same way you strengthen any muscle in your body: by doing hard things you don’t want to do. A simple trick I use is to keep a heavy-duty spring-loaded hand-grip trainer on my desk. When I think about it, I squeeze it until it burns and my arm tells me to stop and then keep squeezing. Another technique I use is to hold my breath until my lungs scream at me to breathe and then hold it longer. When you successfully do the things you don’t want to do, everything else seems easier by comparison. Your willpower grows.”
― Dave Asprey, Game Changers: What Leaders, Innovators, and Mavericks Do to Win at Life

“Can’t” is always a lie. Learn to see it that way, and you’ll solve problems differently.”
― Dave Asprey, Game Changers: What Leaders, Innovators, and Mavericks Do to Win at Life

“A flexible mind changes itself and builds a better model as it gathers more data about reality.”
― Dave Asprey, Game Changers: What Leaders, Innovators, and Mavericks Do to Win at Life

“offering gratitude to the people who challenge you is part of overcoming fear.”
― Dave Asprey, Game Changers: What Leaders, Innovators, and Mavericks Do to Win at Life

“if when you look at the world you see joy and happiness, the brain will translate that joy and happiness into chemistry, such as a dopamine release from feeling pleasure. This chemistry enhances growth. If you look at the world through a lens of fear, it will cause the brain to release stress hormones and inflammatory agents that will put you into a state of self-protection, which halts growth.”
― Dave Asprey, Game Changers: What Leaders, Innovators, and Mavericks Do to Win at Life

“in order to upgrade yourself, you have to pay attention to the spiritual, emotional, cognitive, and physical parts of life all at the same time.”
― Dave Asprey, Game Changers: What Leaders, Innovators, and Mavericks Do to Win at Life

“instead of discovering who you are, you become powerful when you decide who you are.”
― Dave Asprey, Game Changers: What Leaders, Innovators, and Mavericks Do to Win at Life

“Yet when most people choose a career, they heed the well-meaning advice of their parents and friends or chase money instead of pursuing the things they truly care about. You can get pretty far this way, but you’ll never develop true mastery in something you don’t love because you won’t be learning at your optimum rate. Robert says that if everyone discovered the one thing they really loved and spent all of his or her time and energy on it, mastery would develop organically. I can attest to the fact that it does.”
― Dave Asprey, Game Changers: What Leaders, Innovators, and Mavericks Do to Win at Life

“Words are powerful. They set expectations and limits and send messages to our brains and even our bodies about how much we are capable of. Language is a part of your mental software. Use it consciously and with precision, and you will achieve things you probably never thought you could.”
― Dave Asprey, Game Changers: What Leaders, Innovators, and Mavericks Do to Win at Life

“When you want to learn, you do. Robert says that if you’re forced to learn something that you’re not interested in, you will absorb only one-tenth of the information that you would if you were deeply engaged in the subject.”
― Dave Asprey, Game Changers: What Leaders, Innovators, and Mavericks Do to Win at Life

“It was a profoundly transformative experience to sit for days in a fasted state, feeling my loneliness and wondering if animals were going to eat me at night. The key is that all such experiences involve”
― Dave Asprey, Game Changers: What Leaders, Innovators, and Mavericks Do to Win at Life

“when someone says something that bothers you, instead of reacting with anger as you normally would (downwiring), pause to consider why the comment upset you so much and then choose with intention how you want to respond (upwiring).”
― Dave Asprey, Game Changers: What Leaders, Innovators, and Mavericks Do to Win at Life

“Knowing what matters to you brings clarity to your decision making and enables you to then do the really important work of saying no to many (maybe even most) things and focusing your attention and energy exclusively on the things that matter most to you.”
― Dave Asprey, Game Changers: What Leaders, Innovators, and Mavericks Do to Win at Life

“Here’s an old parable. A farmer’s horse ran away. His neighbors said, “What a shame!” He said, “Maybe.” The next day, the horse came back, and it brought more wild horses with it. The neighbors said, “How wonderful!” The farmer said, “Maybe.” The next day, a horse stepped on the farmer’s son’s arm, breaking it. The neighbors said, “How horrible!” The farmer said, “Maybe.” The next day, the government came to the village, drafting people for the war. They passed over the farmer’s son because of his broken arm. “How wonderful!” the neighbors said. The farmer said, “Maybe.” It’s a silly parable, but it makes a good point: situations are neutral; how you perceive them is what makes them good or bad. Find the silver lining in everything. Often the silver lining is that each hardship makes you learn something new or become a stronger, more resilient human being. Don’t force yourself to feel a certain way if you’re not ready. This isn’t about being happy and positive all the time. Some situations suck, and it’s important to feel your negative emotions. Just get into the habit of finding positives, as well.”
― Dave Asprey, Game Changers: What Leaders, Innovators, and Mavericks Do to Win at Life

“Naveen Jain is a classic American success story. He came to the United States as a student from India with five dollars in his pocket and rose to become the billionaire founder of seven companies. His work has changed the game for information (his company Infospace was a major internet company), the solar system (he started Moon Express, which is sending the first robot miners to the moon this year), and he is now bringing his visionary approach to uncover the mysteries of the human body with his company Viome.”
― Dave Asprey, Game Changers: What Leaders, Innovators, and Mavericks Do to Win at Life

“It’s a silly parable, but it makes a good point: situations are neutral; how you perceive them is what makes them good or bad. Find the silver lining in everything.”
― Dave Asprey, Game Changers: What Leaders, Innovators, and Mavericks Do to Win at Life

“Charles told me about a group of studies conducted at Tufts University back in the 1980s that looked at factors that could predict aging. The studies revealed that the most important parameter was muscle mass, and number two was strength. Those markers outranked cholesterol level, high blood pressure, resting heart rate, maximum heart rate, and all other factors as predictors of healthy aging.”
― Dave Asprey, Game Changers: What Leaders, Innovators, and Mavericks Do to Win at Life

“Your true obsessions are the things you would pursue if you already had what you want in life, when it’s not about making money or reaching a goal.”
― Dave Asprey, Game Changers: What Leaders, Innovators, and Mavericks Do to Win at Life

“Clear speech means clear thinking and clear execution. By listening to and analyzing the words you use on a regular basis, you can learn to stop unconsciously programming yourself to have limited performance.”
― Dave Asprey, Game Changers: What Leaders, Innovators, and Mavericks Do to Win at Life

“Leading the Life You Want: Skills for Integrating Work and Life.”
― Dave Asprey, Game Changers: What Leaders, Innovators, and Mavericks Do to Win at Life

“To change the world, tap into your strengths, but do not passively discover who you are. Actively decide and create who you are. If you abdicate this duty by allowing others to tell you who to be, you will struggle greatly in life and likely fail to achieve greatness. So discover your passion and follow it, but do it as the person you create. The difference is a life of mediocrity and creeping misery compared to a life of freedom and passion.”
― Dave Asprey, Game Changers: What Leaders, Innovators, and Mavericks Do to Win at Life