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You’re not going to be persistent and tenacious enough if you don’t love what you’re doing. If it’s not something that excites you, that appeals to you deep down inside.

Robert Greene

I just know who I am and what’s comfortable for me and I don’t personally do things in life because others do it or because that’s what society tells me I should do.
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Comfortable Life Myself Personal Society
Actually, your past successes are your biggest obstacle: every battle, every war, is different, and you cannot assume that what worked before will work today.
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Assumption Battle Big Past Success Work Yourself
If you are worried about what others might think and about how your position in the group might be jeopardized, then you will never really create anything.
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Creation Position Thinking Worry Yourself
Understand: A person of power instills a kind of fear by deliberately unsettling those around him to keep the initative on his side.
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Fear Himself Kind Person Side Understand
Strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter.
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Advice Attack Deep Destruction War
You must always be prepared to place a bet on yourself, on your future, by heading in a direction that others seem to fear.
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Direction Fear Future Head Inspirational Motivational Place Preparation Yourself
Never waste valuable time, or mental peace of mind, on the affairs of others – that is too high a price to pay.
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Mindset Pay Peace Price Value Wasted Time
Grand strategy is the art of looking beyond the present battle and calculating ahead. Focus on your ultimate goal and plot to reach it.
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Battle Beyond Calculation Focus Goal Present Reach Strategy Yourself
There’s no more of an excuse for blaming other people or the world for at least not trying what you should be trying.
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Blame People Try World
It is the fool who always rushes to take sides. Do not commit to any side or cause by yourself. By maintaining your independence, you become the master of others — playing people against one another, making them pursue you.
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Commitment Fools Independence Maintain Master People Play Pursue Rush Side Yourself
People go into things for the wrong reasons.
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People Reason Wrong
Fear creates its own self-fulfilling dynamic- as people give into it, they lose energy and momentum. Their lack of confidence translates into inaction that lowers confidence levels even further, on and on.
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Confidence Creation Dynamic Fear Fulfill Translation
Mistakes and failures are precisely your means of education. They tell you about your own inadequacies.
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Education Failure Mistake Yourself
If you’re really driven and you want something deep, hard enough in life, you’re going to get it.
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Drive Enough Hard Life Yourself
When it comes to power, outshining the master is perhaps the worst mistake of all.
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Master Mistake Power Shine Worst
Be brutal with the past, especially your own, and have no respect for the philosophies that are foisted on you from outside.
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Brutal Philosophy Respect Yourself

You’re not going to be persistent and tenacious enough if you don’t love what you’re doing. If it’s not something that excites you, that appeals to you deep down inside.

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You’re not going to be persistent and tenacious enough if you don’t love what you’re doing. If it’s not something that excites you, that appeals to you deep down inside.

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