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What is known can’t jerk us around unwittingly. Before anything can be resolved, the implicit must be made into the explicit.

Ryan Holiday

ADVERSITY CAN HARDEN YOU. OR IT CAN LOOSEN YOU UP AND MAKE YOU BETTER —IF YOU LET IT.
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Adversity Choice Hard Time Yourself
Great times are great softeners.
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Greatness Soft Time
Failure shows us the way – by showing us what isn’t the way.
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Failure Ourselves Show Way
Bad companies are destroyed by crisis. Good companies survive them. Great individuals, like great companies, find a way to transform weakness into strength.
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Bad Company Crisis Destroy Strength Transformation Way
Ordinary people shy away form negative situations, just as they do with failure. They do their best to avoid trouble. What great people do is the opposite. They are their best in these situations. They turn personal tragedy or misfortune – really anything, everything – to their advantage.
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Advantage Negative Ordinary People Personal Situation
The obstacle in the path becomes the path. Never forget, within every obstacle is an opportunity to improve our condition.
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Condition Forget Improvement Obstacle Opportunity Ourselves Path
The Germans have a word for it: Sitzfleisch. Staying power. Winning by sticking your ass to the seat and not leaving until after it’s over.
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Leaving Over Power Win Word
When intelligent people read, they ask themselves a simple question: What do I plan to do with this information?
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Information Intelligence Myself People Planning Reading Simplicity
Where the head goes, the body follows. Perception precedes action. Right action follows the right perspective.
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Action Body Follow Head Perspective Right
There is no good or bad without us, there is only perception. There is the event itself and the story we tell ourselves about what it means.
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Goodness Ourselves Perception Story
Focus on the moment, not the monsters that may or may not be up ahead.
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Ahead Focus Moments Monster
Dollar for dollar there is no better investment in the world than a book.
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Book Investment Money World
We decide what we will make of each and every situation. We decide whether we’ll break or whether we’ll resist.
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Break Decision Resistance Situation
Conning the conmen is one of life’s most satisfying pleasures.
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Life Pleasure Satisfaction
Problems are rarely as bad as we think-or rather, they are precisely as bad as we think.
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Bad Problem Rare Thinking
No one will argue that writing is an easy profession. Getting someone to pay you for your words isn’t easy. But there are strategies you can use to simplify the process and transform what you can produce.
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Argument Easy Pay Production Professional Simplicity Transformation Writing Yourself

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