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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.

Ryan Holiday

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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Goodness Ourselves Perception Story
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
ADVERSITY CAN HARDEN YOU. OR IT CAN LOOSEN YOU UP AND MAKE YOU BETTER —IF YOU LET IT.
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Adversity Choice Hard Time Yourself
Great times are great softeners.
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Greatness Soft Time
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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Ability Learning People Problem Reason Writing Yourself
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
You know what’s better than building things up in your imagination? Building things up in real life.
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Better Build Imagination Life Reality Yourself
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
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
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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Decision Encouragement Life Persistence Plant Quit Yourself
Dollar for dollar there is no better investment in the world than a book.
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Book Investment Money World
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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Argument Easy Pay Production Professional Simplicity Transformation Writing Yourself
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
Conning the conmen is one of life’s most satisfying pleasures.
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Life Pleasure Satisfaction
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
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

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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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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