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.
RYAN HOLIDAYThe most powerful predictor of what spreads online is anger.
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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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Discipline in perception lets you clearly see the advantage and the proper course of action in every situation-without the pestilence of panic or fear.
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Great times are great softeners.
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When intelligent people read, they ask themselves a simple question: What do I plan to do with this information?
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The most powerful predictor of what spreads online is anger.
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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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Dollar for dollar there is no better investment in the world than a book.
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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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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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Problems are rarely as bad as we think-or rather, they are precisely as bad as we think.
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An entrepreneur is someone with faith in their ability to make something where there was nothing before.
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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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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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What I’ve learned most clearly from blogs is that the majority of them write about the problems from the outside for a reason—because they are missing the abilities that allow people to move to the inside.
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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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