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Conning the conmen is one of life’s most satisfying pleasures.

Ryan Holiday

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
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
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
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
Dollar for dollar there is no better investment in the world than a book.
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Book Investment Money World
Great times are great softeners.
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Greatness Soft Time
Failure shows us the way – by showing us what isn’t the way.
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Failure Ourselves Show Way
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
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
Focus on the moment, not the monsters that may or may not be up ahead.
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Ahead Focus Moments Monster
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
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
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
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
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
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

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