When intelligent people read, they ask themselves a simple question: What do I plan to do with this information?
RYAN HOLIDAY
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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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When intelligent people read, they ask themselves a simple question: What do I plan to do with this information?
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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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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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ADVERSITY CAN HARDEN YOU. OR IT CAN LOOSEN YOU UP AND MAKE YOU BETTER —IF YOU LET IT.
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Conning the conmen is one of life’s most satisfying pleasures.
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Focus on the moment, not the monsters that may or may not be up ahead.
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Dollar for dollar there is no better investment in the world than a book.
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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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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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Failure shows us the way – by showing us what isn’t the way.
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True will is quiet humility, resilience, and flexibility; the other kind of will is weakness disguised by bluster and ambition.
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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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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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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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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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You know what’s better than building things up in your imagination? Building things up in real life.
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