Useful thoughts / Quotes
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- Do what is easy, and your life will become hard. Do what is hard, and your life will become easy.
- It's much better to search for what you need, when you need it, apply it immediately, add it to your toolbox and then go as far as you can until you run into your next challenge.
- Your ability to sit down and focus without being distracted is going to make or break your success in this process, so you really want to take this seriously.
- It takes a lot more time to get back into the creative mode when you've been distracted. If you can just put all distractions off for an hour to 90 minutes, you'll accomplish a lot more.
- Seek a calling — instead of a career.
- Quotes from the books:
- Book "Mindset: The New Psychology Of Success" by Carol Dweck
- "We like to think of our champions and idols as superheroes who were born different from us. We don’t like to think of them as relatively ordinary people who made themselves extraordinary. "
- “No matter your ability, effort ignites that ability and turns it into accomplishment.”
- “True self-confidence is “the courage to be open — to welcome change and new ideas regardless of their source.” Real self-confidence is not reflected in a title, an expensive suit, a fancy car, or a series of acquisitions. It is reflected in your mindset: your readiness to grow.”
- “In the fixed mindset, everything is about the outcome. If you fail — or if you’re not the best — it’s all been wasted. The growth mindset allows people to value what they’re doing regardless of the outcome. They’re tackling problems, charting new courses, working on important issues. Maybe they haven’t found the cure for cancer, but the search was deeply meaningful.”
- “Why waste time proving over and over how great you are when you could be getting better? Why hide deficiencies instead of overcoming them? Why look for friends or partners who will just shore up your self-esteem instead of ones who will also challenge you to grow? And why seek out the tried and true instead of experiences that will stretch you? The passion for stretching yourself and sticking to it, even (or especially) when it’s not going well, is the hallmark of the growth mindset. This is the mindset that allows people to thrive during some of the most challenging times in their lives.”
- Book "Deep Work" by Cal Newport
- “Clarity about what matters provides clarity about what does not.”
- “If you don’t produce, you won’t thrive — no matter how skilled or talented you are.”
- “What we choose to focus on — and what we choose to ignore — plays in defining the quality of our life.”
- “Efforts to deepen your focus will struggle if you don’t simultaneously wean your mind from a dependence on distraction.”
- “To simply wait and be bored has become a novel experience in modern life, but from the perspective of concentration training, it’s incredibly valuable.”
- Book "Mastery" by Robert Greeene
- “The time that leads to mastery is dependent on the intensity of our focus.”
- “The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways.”
- “People around you, constantly under the pull of their emotions, change their ideas by the day or by the hour, depending on their mood. You must never assume that what people say or do in a particular moment is a statement of their permanent desires.”
- “In the future, the great division will be between those who have trained themselves to handle these complexities and those who are overwhelmed by them — those who can acquire skills and discipline their minds and those who are irrevocably distracted by all the media around them and can never focus enough to learn.”
- “There are two kinds of failure. The first comes from never trying out your ideas because you are afraid, or because you are waiting for the perfect time. This kind of failure you can never learn from, and such timidity will destroy you. The second kind comes from a bold and venturesome spirit. If you fail in this way, the hit that you take to your reputation is greatly outweighed by what you learn. Repeated failure will toughen your spirit and show you with absolute clarity how things must be done.”
- We’re flawed. So, by intentionally sharing your mistakes and struggles, people fall in love with you
- Habits that have a high rate of return in life (by James Clear):
- sleeping 8+ hours each day
- lifting weights 3x week
- going for a walk each day
- saving at least 10 percent of your income
- reading every day
- drinking more water and less of everything else
- leaving your phone in another room while you work
- If you want a simple formula for having a good day, then get a workout done and do your most important task before lunch. Knock out those two things by noon and you really feel like you're ahead of the day.
- People deny and blame others for their problems for the simple reason that it's easy and feels good, while solving problems is hard and often feels bad.
- Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
- CARL JUNG
- People don’t judge you so much for who you are as they judge you for how you communicate yourself.
- SCOTT H YOUNG