Great times are great softeners.
RYAN HOLIDAYConning the conmen is one of life’s most satisfying pleasures.
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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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ADVERSITY CAN HARDEN YOU. OR IT CAN LOOSEN YOU UP AND MAKE YOU BETTER —IF YOU LET IT.
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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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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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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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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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Failure shows us the way – by showing us what isn’t the way.
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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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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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Conning the conmen is one of life’s most satisfying pleasures.
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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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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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Where the head goes, the body follows. Perception precedes action. Right action follows the right perspective.
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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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Dollar for dollar there is no better investment in the world than a book.
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