Quotes About Progress

The biggest mistake you can make is to accept the norms of your time.

One of the most common Kindle highlights from The 4-Hour Workweek complements this: "A person's success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have.

The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet. —WILLIAM GIBSON,

Based on everything I've seen, a simple recipe can work: focus on what's in front of you, design great days to create a great life, and try not to make the same mistake twice. That's it.

Lo que más tememos hacer suele ser lo que más necesitamos hacer.

The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet. —WILLIAM GIBSON, author of Neuromancer; coined term "cyberspace" in 1984

Cualquier cosa de Kevin Kelly, la más reciente es The Inevitable.

el éxito de una persona en la vida suele poder medirse por la cantidad de conversaciones incómodas

Ser capaz de abandonar lo que no funciona es consustancial a ser un ganador.

Toma la decisión de hacer cada día una cosa que te dé miedo.

That's the underlying philosophy of Aoki Bootcamp:

Let's come up with as many ideas as possible, and then put them under scrutiny, and basically try to kill them off, and if they were unkillable, then we'd keep going with them.

If you hit two crappy pages, even if you never use them, you can feel "successful" for the day. Sometimes you barely eke out two pages, and they are truly terrible. But at least 50% of the time, you'll produce perhaps 5, 10, or even—on the rare miracle day—20 pages. Draft ugly and edit pretty.

You are only as young as the last time you changed your mind.'—Timothy Leary.

For podcasting: In the first 3 to 9 months, you should be honing your craft and putting out increasingly better work. "Good content is the best SEO," as Robert Scoble originally told me. You

After four weeks, we tallied the results. His average monthly fat loss had gone from roughly 5 lbs to 18.75 lbs, a 275% increase. He'd tripled his fat loss by spending less than two minutes consuming a protein shake each morning. Astonishing? Not really. I'd seen the pattern in the data across hundreds of people: simple works, complex fails.

empiezas a hacer esto consigues redefinirte como persona capaz de influir en el mundo.

No hay camino hacia la felicidad, la felicidad es el camino.

work on the deficiencies you're most embarrassed by.

A good strength coach should get a female, no matter what her body fat is, to be able to do 12 chin-ups in 12 weeks.

I Seem to Be a Verb, de Buckminster Fuller. Cuarenta

Failure is highly underrated.

El primer interrogante tiene un poderoso efecto bola de nieve, mientras que el segundo conduce a un resultado binario triunfo/fracaso sin premio de consolación

I'm there to learn. I'm not there to win; I'm there to learn, because then I'll win, eventually. . . .