Failure shows us the way – by showing us what isn’t the way.
RYAN HOLIDAYDiscipline 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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Focus on the moment, not the monsters that may or may not be up ahead.
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An entrepreneur is someone with faith in their ability to make something where there was nothing before.
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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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You know what’s better than building things up in your imagination? Building things up in real life.
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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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True will is quiet humility, resilience, and flexibility; the other kind of will is weakness disguised by bluster and ambition.
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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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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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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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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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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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Where the head goes, the body follows. Perception precedes action. Right action follows the right perspective.
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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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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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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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