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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.

Ryan Holiday

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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Break Decision Resistance Situation
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
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
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
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
Problems are rarely as bad as we think-or rather, they are precisely as bad as we think.
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Bad Problem Rare Thinking
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
Failure shows us the way – by showing us what isn’t the way.
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Failure Ourselves Show Way
Dollar for dollar there is no better investment in the world than a book.
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Book Investment Money World
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 obstacle in the path becomes the path. Never forget, within every obstacle is an opportunity to improve our condition.
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Condition Forget Improvement Obstacle Opportunity Ourselves Path
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
Conning the conmen is one of life’s most satisfying pleasures.
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Life Pleasure Satisfaction
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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Advantage Discipline Fear Panic Perception
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

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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