There is nothing worth doing that is not scary. There is no one who has achieved greatness without wrestling with their own doubts, anxieties, limitations, and demons.

Be quiet, work hard, and stay healthy. It’s not ambition or skill that is going to set you apart but sanity.

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“Be satisfied with even the smallest progress,' Marcus Aurelius said.

You’re never going to be perfect—there is no such thing. You’re human. So instead, aim for progress, even the smallest amount.

When you're lacking motivation, remind yourself: discipline now, freedom later. The labor will pass, and the rewards will last.

Ego Is The Enemy. You’re not as good as you think. You don’t have it all figured out. Stay focused. Do better.

You’re never going to be perfect—there is no such thing. You’re human. So instead, aim for progress, even the smallest amount.

This is the one thing all fools have in common, according to Seneca.

“They are always getting ready to live.”

They are always thinking that they have plenty of time. They are always saying that they’ll be able to get to it later.

Do it now. Stop putting stuff off.

Vacations are great, but do you know what's even greater?

Building a life that you don’t need to escape from.

The idea that only the swaggering, all-knowing, and ruthlessly ambitious succeed is a lie. One that has discouraged so many people with so much potential—and worse, encouraged many more to crash and burn.

In 1993, Jensen Huang pitched a startup idea to his former boss, Wilf Corrigan.

After Jensen's pitch, Wilf said,

“I have no idea what you just said. That was one of the worst pitches I've ever heard.”

Wilf then called the renowned venture capitalist Don Valentine, and said,…

Philosophy isn't about talking or lecturing or reading dense books. It's something men and women of action use and have used throughout history to solve their problems and achieve their greatest triumphs. Not in the classroom but on the battlefield, in the forum, and at court.

Upgraded my writing process while I was working on my next book “Right Thing, Right Now”.

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People love stories; they use stories to make sense of the world.

If you ask most smart or successful people where they learned their craft, they will not talk to you about their time in school. It's always a mentor, a particularly transformative job, or a period of experimentation or trial and error.

Pretty much everyone's career starts the same way: with grunt work. Not just the cliched fetching of coffee, but other lowly tasks: taking notes in meetings, preparing paperwork, scheduling, intensive research - even flat-out doing your bosses' work for them.

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Work hard, take it seriously, embrace your ambition. And when you're not doing that, do something - whatever it happens to be - that taps into the part of you that makes you forget about all the rest of it.

Because we make ourselves deaf to feedback, because we overestimate our abilities, because we become consumed with ourselves, we end up subjecting ourselves not just to the inevitable stumbles or difficulties of life but catastrophic, painful failures.