A fantastic book filled with paradoxes on how to live life
Rating: 5/5
The only way to be deeply happy is to break all dependencies
Dogs bark. People speak. It doesn’t mean a thing. What they say and do has nothing to do with you.
Don’t let ideas into your head or heart without your permission
Decide everything is your fault
You can’t be free without self mastery
You don’t see things as they are. You see them as you are. Change yourself and change the world.
Be a perpetual traveller, a nomadic minimalist
Own your business with many small customers instead of large clients
Commit. Focus your attention on the few things you’re committed to and nothing else
Habits create character
To experience it all, nothing twice
Change your need to change things. Do nothing
Say nothing unless it must be said
When choosing to decide, do nothing
The unintelligent jump to conclusions, the wise just observe
Save the future, think as if you were a grandparent
Today’s discomfort brings future rewards
Only idiots think they’re always right
Make memories. Pursue novelty
Mastery is the ultimate status and is done through repetition
You need ritual, not inspiration. You must do this every day.
Life is determined by randomness, odds and probability
Pursue pain, comfort is a silent killer
Easy road leads to a hard future. Hard road leads to an easy future.
Forget the past and future. Enjoy right now
Be a famous pioneer. Show what has never been done.
Make a stage name and a company with that same name
Choose the future. Embrace tomorrow and never stop learning
Value what has endured
Masters the fundamentals, not the new tricks
Comedy is tragedy plus time
Expect the worst and prepare for it but don’t worry. Practice being uncomfortable.
Shallow happiness is conquering the world. Deep happiness is conquering yourself.
Capture the value you create. Charge for what you do.
Value yourself higher, then commit to this valuation
Own and control 100% of what you create
Stay focused on creating value, everything else is a distraction
Manners are shallow, honesty is deep
Die empty. Get ideas out of your head and into reality
Distribute your work as widely as you can. There are no unknown geniuses.
Make as many mistakes as possible and assume failure
Take on big challenges and assume failures
Look for what’s ugly and fix it
Schedule your creativity
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