Quotes About Growth

Tara by Maria Popova (page 406), who said, "[Tara] has changed my life, perhaps more profoundly than anybody in my life." I then read Tara's first book, Radical Acceptance,

When you're earlier in your career, I think the best strategy is to just say 'yes' to everything. Every little gig. You just never know what are the lottery tickets.

But the best things that ever happened to me came during the times when the shit hit the fan and I had nothing and nobody to help me. Who are you really? What do you really want? Get out there and fail and find out.

Here's why I think it seems to work, and there are several possibilities.

As you stumble and learn, stumble and learn again, resolve to talk to yourself as if you were your best friend. So no "What a #?%$@ idiot!" when your BFF smashes an egg on the floor, m'kay? Be cool, like the Fonz.

I don't think failure is sometimes part of the process—it always is. When you feel you can't go on, know that you're just getting started.

Jack Canfield quote, "Everything you want is on the other side of fear.

In this way, quitting should never be seen as the end of something grudging and unpleasant. Rather, it's a vital step in beginning something new and wonderful.

Quality Questions Create a Quality Life

Otra de mis armas favoritas es practicar el miedo:

1,000 True Fans' by Kevin Kelly] was one of the seminal articles that inspired me to really build amazing material, rather than just recycling what else was out there. I knew that if I had 1,000 true fans, then not only would I be able to live doing the things I wanted, but I would be able to turn that into 2,000, 5,000, 10,000—and that is exactly what happened.

Meditate for a Year, Get Benefits for Life?

Don't worry about what you're going to do with the rest of your life. Just find a profitable and interesting use for the next three to five years.

In the last five years, what new belief, behavior, or habit has most improved your life?

It's so beautiful how life unfolds, if we lay it all on the line and keep our pores open.

my advice to my 30-year-old self is, don't be a donkey. You can do everything you want to do. You just need foresight and patience.

Timothy Ferriss

The older I get, the more time I spend—as a percentage of each day—on crafting better questions. In my experience, going from 1x to 10x, from 10x to 100x, and from 100x to (when Lady Luck really smiles) 1000x returns in various areas has been a product of better questions.

Be in a hurry to learn, not in a hurry to get validation.

Sometimes you need to stop doing things you love in order to nurture the one thing that matters most.

Me obligo a mí mismo a dejar de comparar lo que aprendo con el pasado. Si sólo te fijas en los patrones del pasado, no llegarás lejos.»

Everything you want is on the other side of fear." Stephanie McMahon

Morning pages are, as author Julia Cameron puts it, "spiritual windshield wipers.

That cliché you ignored like a throwaway fortune cookie? Suddenly it makes sense and moves mountains