Own Your Weird Quotes

“Whose opinion is going to matter more—theirs or yours? Or, in other words, is it worth living a life that doesn’t make you truly happy just to please other people?”
― Jason Zook, Own Your Weird: An Oddly Effective Way for Finding Happiness in Work, Life, and Love

“Life is too short to wait until after retirement to live it.”
― Jason Zook, Own Your Weird: An Oddly Effective Way for Finding Happiness in Work, Life, and Love

“Risking rejection is simply the price of entry for pursuing a life that’s uniquely suited to what makes you happy.”
― Jason Zook, Own Your Weird: An Oddly Effective Way for Finding Happiness in Work, Life, and Love

“You could find yourself so busy striving toward one of these arbitrary goals, making tons of sacrifices along the way, only to one day realize all that sacrifice wasn’t even for something that would bring you long-term happiness or satisfaction.”
― Jason Zook, Own Your Weird: An Oddly Effective Way for Finding Happiness in Work, Life, and Love

“From a young age we are conditioned to want what society (or family and friends) tell us we should want. Whether it’s the careers we perceive to be successful (doctors, lawyers, et al.), to the status symbols that we’re told will make us feel accomplished (money, material things, awards, etc.), we are conditioned to strive for all of these things, and rarely do we question why we’re supposed to want them.”
― Jason Zook, Own Your Weird: An Oddly Effective Way for Finding Happiness in Work, Life, and Love

“Your personal values are things you need in order to feel like the best, happiest version of yourself.”
― Jason Zook, Own Your Weird: An Oddly Effective Way for Finding Happiness in Work, Life, and Love

“Living an intentional life, where you embrace your uniqueness, where you own your weird, where you call the shots, doesn’t happen because your decision coincides with the start of a new year, month, or week. It happens because you decide it happens.”
― Jason Zook, Own Your Weird: An Oddly Effective Way for Finding Happiness in Work, Life, and Love

“We don’t get another shot at this thing called life. That doesn’t mean you need to play it safe; that means you need to live to your fullest potential.”
― Jason Zook, Own Your Weird: An Oddly Effective Way for Finding Happiness in Work, Life, and Love

“saying “I’ve made it” has nothing to do with the material or monetary goals in life. It has everything to do with having enough, being okay with enough, having control over the decisions I make in my daily life or in my many businesses, and trying to own my weird, regardless of what anyone thinks. That is my blueprint for a happy and successful life.”
― Jason Zook, Own Your Weird: An Oddly Effective Way for Finding Happiness in Work, Life, and Love

“If you’re constantly searching for the shortcuts, it’s usually a good sign you’re on the wrong path.”
― Jason Zook, Own Your Weird: An Oddly Effective Way for Finding Happiness in Work, Life, and Love

“the more you embrace what makes you unique, the better chance you’ll have of your ideas standing out and being shared.”
― Jason Zook, Own Your Weird: An Oddly Effective Way for Finding Happiness in Work, Life, and Love

“Whatever those values are that drive you, start formulating your own definition of success based on how much of those things you can live out on a daily basis.”
― Jason Zook, Own Your Weird: An Oddly Effective Way for Finding Happiness in Work, Life, and Love

“There is no one-size-fits-all definition for success. We think it’s money, but all the money in the world can’t compensate for waking up in a life that feels out of sync with who you are and what your values are.”
― Jason Zook, Own Your Weird: An Oddly Effective Way for Finding Happiness in Work, Life, and Love

“There is no one-size-fits-all definition for success.”
― Jason Zook, Own Your Weird: An Oddly Effective Way for Finding Happiness in Work, Life, and Love

“Instead of trying to keep up some flawless facade, if you establish early on that imperfections are a part of your work, if you own your weird, you get to build an audience that accepts you for being yourself.”
― Jason Zook, Own Your Weird: An Oddly Effective Way for Finding Happiness in Work, Life, and Love

“Instead of going around and around, focus on creating and trusting the path you have forged for yourself.”
― Jason Zook, Own Your Weird: An Oddly Effective Way for Finding Happiness in Work, Life, and Love

“If you accept the fact that success looks like a treasure map, you won’t be concerned when one of those detours occurs. When you veer off path, when you hit roadblocks, you’ll be able to see them for what they are: interesting turns on your treasure map to happiness. As long as you’re moving forward, you’ll still know you’re headed in the right direction. Remember our little mantra from earlier in the book: opportunities, not obstacles.”
― Jason Zook, Own Your Weird: An Oddly Effective Way for Finding Happiness in Work, Life, and Love

“There are too many success stories without enough focus on the times of nonsuccess. In psychology, they call this survivorship bias—a logical error where we focus on those who have “survived” some process and inadvertently overlook those who didn’t (probably because every magazine cover and news story focuses only on the huge wins).”
― Jason Zook, Own Your Weird: An Oddly Effective Way for Finding Happiness in Work, Life, and Love

“Instead of looking for a perfect idea, look for something you simply can’t stop thinking about. Trust your gut and listen for things that feel right.”
― Jason Zook, Own Your Weird: An Oddly Effective Way for Finding Happiness in Work, Life, and Love

“Don’t follow your passions, follow your effort.” Where you apply your time is where you will succeed, and that’s the secret to the perfect idea—the one you’ll put time and effort into.”
― Jason Zook, Own Your Weird: An Oddly Effective Way for Finding Happiness in Work, Life, and Love

“Don’t follow your passions, follow your effort.”
― Jason Zook, Own Your Weird: An Oddly Effective Way for Finding Happiness in Work, Life, and Love

“Once you get that idea of perfection out of your head you can start looking at your ideas from a different angle.”
― Jason Zook, Own Your Weird: An Oddly Effective Way for Finding Happiness in Work, Life, and Love

“done is better than perfect.”
― Jason Zook, Own Your Weird: An Oddly Effective Way for Finding Happiness in Work, Life, and Love

“Had I not published the not-so-good stuff, I wouldn’t have been able to get to the actually pretty-good stuff.”
― Jason Zook, Own Your Weird: An Oddly Effective Way for Finding Happiness in Work, Life, and Love

“By focusing on completion, things will actually get done. Right or wrong doesn’t matter. What matters is that you are constantly moving yourself and your business forward.”
― Jason Zook, Own Your Weird: An Oddly Effective Way for Finding Happiness in Work, Life, and Love

“Don’t worry about finishing a task in the perfect way, worry about finishing the task. Period.”
― Jason Zook, Own Your Weird: An Oddly Effective Way for Finding Happiness in Work, Life, and Love

“Here’s the problem with new ideas and new things: they’re new. They’re not proven. They don’t exist. You have to navigate all the murky waters of figuring out what starting looks like. You have to get over the notion that you will have it all figured out and perfect right out of the gate.”
― Jason Zook, Own Your Weird: An Oddly Effective Way for Finding Happiness in Work, Life, and Love

“The sooner you accept that perfection is just fear, the sooner you can get the courage to overcome it and start actually taking action (read: putting your ideas out into the world).”
― Jason Zook, Own Your Weird: An Oddly Effective Way for Finding Happiness in Work, Life, and Love

“you’re ever going to embrace your uniqueness and learn what your strengths are, you have to experiment (a lot) and use pattern recognition to look back at your work and learn from it. But that means you have to get out there and do stuff. A lot of stuff.”
― Jason Zook, Own Your Weird: An Oddly Effective Way for Finding Happiness in Work, Life, and Love

“Focus on Completion, Not Perfection”
― Jason Zook, Own Your Weird: An Oddly Effective Way for Finding Happiness in Work, Life, and Love