Career & Success

Good problem solvers are made not born.

Enthusiasm is common. Endurance is rare.

You can't know what you want until you know what you might want, so you are going to have to generate a lot of ideas and possibilities.

The true measure of your potential is not the height of the peak you've reached, but how far you've climbed to get there.

Your deepest moments of happiness don't come from easy things. They come from realizing your potential and overcoming your own limiting beliefs about yourself.

Being right is not enough. You need enough leverage to have your point of view considered.

If you're not uncomfortable, then you're probably stuck at an 'acceptable level.'

We do not get better without structure.

The scout asks: Is this true? The soldier asks: Can I believe this?

The more I help out, the more successful I become. But I measure success in what it has done for the people around me. That is the real accolade.

There's zero correlation between being the best talker and having the best ideas.

Every transition begins with an ending. We have to let go of the old thing before we can pick up the new - not just outwardly, but inwardly, where we keep our connections to the people and places that act as definitions of who we are.

If you're not saying 'Hell yeah!' about something, say no.

Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good.

Finished ought to be an F-word for all of us. We are all works in progress.

Struggle is not optional - it's neurologically required: in order to get your skill circuit to fire optimally, you must by definition fire the circuit suboptimally; you must make mistakes and pay attention to those mistakes; you must slowly teach your circuit.

Designers don't analyze, worry, think, complain their way forward; they build their way forward.

Becoming is better than being.

Compared to other scientists, Nobel laureates are at least twenty-two times more likely to partake as an amateur actor, dancer, magician, or other type of performer.

Seek wealth, not money or status. Wealth is having assets that earn while you sleep. Money is how we transfer time and wealth. Status is your place in the social hierarchy.

Living life as an artist is a practice.

The greatest power you possess is your ability to resist your emotions.

What I've come to love about patience is that, ultimately, it's the truest test of merit: Are you willing to do the work, despite no guaranteed outcome?

Harness your individuality in the pursuit of fulfillment to achieve excellence.

The hallmark of originality is rejecting the default and exploring whether a better option exists.

Once you eliminate your number one problem, number two gets a promotion.

The goal is not to be wrong more often. It's to recognize that we're all wrong more often than we'd like to admit, and the more we deny it, the deeper the hole we dig for ourselves.

The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways.

You definitely know one.

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The next time you catch yourself being average when you feel like quitting, realize that you only have two good choices: Quit or be exceptional. Average is for losers.

If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results.

In a squiggly career, you are not climbing a ladder, you are exploring a jungle.

Carving out a space for yourself online, somewhere where you can express yourself and share your work, is still one of the best possible investments you can make with your time.

Instead of thinking about what you want to do with your life, you default to the options most admired by your peers. This is the trap of prestigious career paths.

When you show yourself to the world and display your talents, you naturally stir all kinds of resentment, envy, and other manifestations of insecurity. This is to be expected. You cannot spend your life worrying about the petty feelings of others.

When you think you're done, you're only at 40% of what your body is capable of doing. That's the limit your brain puts on you.

You could never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him limitless bananas after death in monkey heaven.

You are responsible for what you say and do. You are not responsible for whether or not people freak out about it.