Failure shows us the way – by showing us what isn’t the way.
RYAN HOLIDAYWe 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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Conning the conmen is one of life’s most satisfying pleasures.
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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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Where the head goes, the body follows. Perception precedes action. Right action follows the right perspective.
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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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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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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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The most powerful predictor of what spreads online is anger.
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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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Dollar for dollar there is no better investment in the world than a book.
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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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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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You know what’s better than building things up in your imagination? Building things up in real life.
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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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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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