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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.

Ryan Holiday

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
True will is quiet humility, resilience, and flexibility; the other kind of will is weakness disguised by bluster and ambition.
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Ambitious Disguise Humility Kindness Quiet True Willing
I run 5 miles every night. It’s where I go to digest my day, hash out the multitude of information that’s been poured into me in the last wild six months or so, and to try and condense it down to some sort of cohesive strategy to live my life by.
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Day Digest Life Live Myself Night Strategy
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
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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Bad Company Crisis Destroy Strength Transformation Way
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
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
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
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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Cover Ideas Media Opening Project Transformation
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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Evidence Myself Need Smart
Great times are great softeners.
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Greatness Soft Time
Focus on the moment, not the monsters that may or may not be up ahead.
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Ahead Focus Moments Monster
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
Where the head goes, the body follows. Perception precedes action. Right action follows the right perspective.
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Action Body Follow Head Perspective Right
The most powerful predictor of what spreads online is anger.
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Angry Online Powerful Predication
Failure shows us the way – by showing us what isn’t the way.
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Failure Ourselves Show Way

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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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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