“My art, if I have an art, is deconstructing things that really scare the living hell out of me” “Being busy is a form of laziness – lazy thinking and indiscriminate action” “Being busy is most often used as a guise for avoiding the few critically important but uncomfortable actions” Efficiency is still important, but is useless unless applied to the right things” “What you do is infinitely more important that how you do it. “It’s far more lucrative and fun to leverage your strengths instead of attempting to fix all the chinks in your armor” Like dancing, language learning, swimming, three-pointers…” “Seemingly unrelated that are in fact really related, that’s the stuff I like to talk about. “Whatever you feel you have been assigned in life, the hand you have been dealt genetically, is actually very, very malleable” “The most important actions are never comfortable” “The goal is to find your inefficiencies in order to eliminate them and to find your strengths so you can multiply them” “Lack of time is actually lack of priorities” “The first book was turned down by 26 publishers” “The best results I have had in my life the most enjoyable times, have all come from asking the simple question: ‘What is the worst that could happen?’”
“I think the ‘soft sell’ is very undervalued” Sometimes is shows you what you shouldn’t do, but more often than not it shows you exactly what you should do” “The most common approach is very seldom the most effective and most efficient” “Deep down, you know it’s all an illusion, but with everyone participating in the same game of make believe, it’s easy to forget” “When everything and everyone is failing, what is the cost of a little experiment outside of the norm? Most often, nothing” I closed my eyes, smiled, and took a deep breath. “I leaned against the wall and slid down until I was sitting on the floor. “Emphasize strengths, don’t fix weaknesses” “Focus on being productive instead of busy” “The options are limitless, but each path must begin with the same first step: replacing assumptions” “As long as you are keeping your blood-sugars in check, and your insulin levels in check, I think that the demonization of fat – including saturated fat – is completely unwarranted”
Quotes about listening for teens movie#
But in the same fashion that you have Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon – who all used to be very cleanly separate – on this collision course where they are competing on the same verticals, I think you’re going to end up having television producers, movie producers, writers, song writers, all competing for the same mental bandwidth” “I’m really excited about the future of content marketing. “The advice I give for sustainable behavioral change, including diet, is that you make one change at a time” But I ask a lot of question and I would love your advice” “The question no one really seemed to be answering was: ‘Why do it all in the first place? What’s the pot of gold that justifies spending the best years of you life hoping for happiness in the last?’” “This is just a general rule – and it sounds really silly – but I would remove gluten from your diet” “Being efficient without regard to effectiveness is the default mode of the universe” “The guiding tenant, which I encourage you all to embrace, whether it’s looking at split testing for a start-up, whether it’s looking at increasing profits per user, average revenue per user or changing your body, is to pause and reflect whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority” “For reaching influential people, I think that in-person is the least crowded and most effective way, because they have to trust the messenger before they will endorse the message” “There is a direct correlation between an increased sphere of comfort and getting what you want” And 9 times out of 10, in my opinion, the easiest way to do that is to just sell to people who are as similar to you as possible” “Marketing to me means to identify exactly who your ideal customer is: knowing their behavior, knowing their age, knowing their gender, knowing their location. “I would emphasize that by improving your physical machine, which includes the brain, you improve all of your performance, and the transfer is incredible to business” “Pareto’s Law can be summarised as follows: 80% of the outputs result from 20% of the inputs”
“The commonsense rules of the ‘real world’ are a fragile collection of socially reinforced illusions” This is hard for most to accept, because our culture tends to reward personal sacrifice instead of personal productivity” “Doing less meaningless work, so that you can focus on things of greater personal importance is NOT laziness.
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