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You know what’s better than building things up in your imagination? Building things up in real life.

Ryan Holiday

What is known can’t jerk us around unwittingly. Before anything can be resolved, the implicit must be made into the explicit.
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Explicit Known Resolution
The most powerful predictor of what spreads online is anger.
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Angry Online Powerful Predication
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
Conning the conmen is one of life’s most satisfying pleasures.
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Life Pleasure Satisfaction
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
Failure shows us the way – by showing us what isn’t the way.
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Failure Ourselves Show Way
It’s okay to be discouraged. It’s not okay to quit. To know you want to quit but to plant your feet and keep inching closer until you take the impenetrable fortress you’ve decided to lay siege to in your own life-that’s persistence.
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Decision Encouragement Life Persistence Plant Quit Yourself
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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Endurance Finding Greatness Happiness Learning Love Need
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
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
An entrepreneur is someone with faith in their ability to make something where there was nothing before.
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Entrepreneur Faith Inspirational Invention
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
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
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
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

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