Quotes About Insight

Benson, you are so free of the ravages of intelligence

If you let your learning lead to knowledge, you become a fool. If you let your learning lead to action, you become wealthy.

Often, all that stands between you and what you want is a better set of questions.

Investing in yourself is the most important investment you'll ever make in your life. . . . There's no financial investment that'll ever match it, because if you develop more skill, more ability, more insight, more capacity, that's what's going to really provide economic freedom. . . . It's those skill sets that really make that happen." This

I've realized that instead of following the trends, you want to identify the trends but not follow them. It's good to recognize trends, but if you follow them, you get sucked into them, and then you also fall with the trend.

As a builder, as an entrepreneur, how can you create something for someone else if you don't have even enough glancing familiarity with them to imagine the world through their eyes?

Must-watch documentary The Gatekeepers (2012)

Losers react, leaders anticipate.

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it."—Albert Einstein

There is a big difference between intelligence and wisdom. Many are fooled into thinking they are the same thing, but they are not. I have seen intelligent serial killers, but I've never seen a wise one.

Experience often deeply embeds the assumptions that need to be questioned in the first place.

The Act of Creation by Arthur Koestler,

Life can be much broader, once you discover one simple fact, and that is that everything around you that you call 'life' was made up by people that were no smarter than you.

Me di cuenta de que distanciarse de la situación, para poder ver lo que está pasando, es crucial.

Algunos recursos resultan obvios a primera vista, mientras

Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack."—George S. Patton

Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu (5 mentions) Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand (4) Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari (4) Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse (4) The 4-Hour Workweek by Tim Ferriss (4) The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande (4) Dune by Frank Herbert (3) Influence by Robert Cialdini (3)

Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't

pero también es tener la sabiduría de dejar de explorar cuando encuentras algo en lo que vale la pena detenerse.

Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center. Big, undreamed-of things—the people on the edge see them first." —Kurt Vonnegut "Routine, in an intelligent man, is a sign of ambition." —W.H. Auden

I don't care why people pick up cookbooks. I'm much more interested in why they put them down.

I've learned an important trick: To develop foresight, you need to practice hindsight.

usar el sufrimiento para encontrar claridad. Si se analiza el sufrimiento en lugar de ignorarlo,

Be a member of your target market and don't speculate what others need or will be willing to buy.