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To do great things, we need to be able to endure tragedy and setbacks. We’ve got to love what we do and all that it entails, good and bad. We have to learn to find joy in every single thing that happens.

Ryan Holiday

Am I saying this because I want to prove how smart I am or am I saying this because it needs to be said?
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Evidence Myself Need Smart
Great times are great softeners.
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Greatness Soft Time
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
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
Failure shows us the way – by showing us what isn’t the way.
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Failure Ourselves Show 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
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
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
Dollar for dollar there is no better investment in the world than a book.
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Book Investment Money World
Focus on the moment, not the monsters that may or may not be up ahead.
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Ahead Focus Moments Monster
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
True will is quiet humility, resilience, and flexibility; the other kind of will is weakness disguised by bluster and ambition.
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Ambitious Disguise Humility Kindness Quiet True Willing
I run 5 miles every night. It’s where I go to digest my day, hash out the multitude of information that’s been poured into me in the last wild six months or so, and to try and condense it down to some sort of cohesive strategy to live my life by.
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Day Digest Life Live Myself Night Strategy
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
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
Our first idea is a grand opening, a big launch, a press release, or major media coverage. We default to thinking we need an advertising budget. Our delusion is that we should be Transformers and not The Blair Witch Project.
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Cover Ideas Media Opening Project Transformation

To do great things, we need to be able to endure tragedy and setbacks. We’ve got to love what we do and all that it entails, good and bad. We have to learn to find joy in every single thing that happens.

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To do great things, we need to be able to endure tragedy and setbacks. We’ve got to love what we do and all that it entails, good and bad. We have to learn to find joy in every single thing that happens.

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