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People really do think they have to choose between high stress and high reward jobs, and low stress and low reward jobs.
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all information and interruptions that are irrelevant, unimportant, or unactionable.
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One of the bigger misconceptions of learning is that many skills take a lifetime to get world-class at, or 10,000 hours to become world-class at.
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The worst that could happen wasn't crashing and burning, it was accepting terminal boredom as a tolerable status quo.
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I think you'd love this puppy. Why don't you just take him home and see what you think? You can just bring him back if you change your mind.
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But the truth is, you can't really earn trust over time with people without being somewhat vulnerable [first].
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To find the right things, we'll need to go to the garden.
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I will take as a given that, for most people, somewhere between six and seven billion of them, the perfect job is the one that takes the least time.
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The decent method you follow is better than the perfect method you quit.
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The question you should be asking isn't, "What do I want?" or "What are my goals?" but "What would excite me?
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If you spend your time, worth $20-25 per hour, doing something that someone else will do for $10 per hour, it's simply a poor use of resources.
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Stay humble or get humbled.
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Career specialists can't externalize what they've internalized. Second nature is hard to teach.
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Law 11: "No" simply means begin again at one level higher.
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Just-in-time" information instead of "just-in-case" information.
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Incineration does not equal human digestion; eating a fireplace log will not store the same number of calories as burning one will produce.
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The Conquest of Happiness
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you don't need to understand any of the biology, just as you don't need to understand radiation to use a microwave oven.
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Love, be loved, and never stop learning -
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People will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.
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If the recipe sucks, it doesn't matter how good a cook you are.
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As author P. J. O'Rourke puts it: Veal is a very young beef and, like a very young girlfriend, it's cute but boring and expensive.
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I didn't even like white wine. Then I tasted it and bought a case. It was the first case of any wine I'd ever bought.
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The best way to counter-attack a hater is to make it blatantly obvious that their attack has had no impact on you.
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I overhear Bobby Flay say, "Take risks and you'll get the payoffs. Learn from your mistakes until you succeed. It's that simple." I
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What are the top-three activities that I use to fill time to feel as though I've been productive?
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A goal without real consequences is wishful thinking. Good follow-through doesn't depend on the right intentions. It depends on the right incentives.
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Lack of time is actually lack of priorities. Take
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Miller, BJ: "'Don't believe everything you think.
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Since all of them overestimated the competition, no one even showed up.
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Many a false step was made by standing still.
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One does not accumulate but eliminate. It is not daily increase but daily decrease. The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity. - BRUCE LEE
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The golden years become lower-middle-class life revisited. That's a bittersweet ending.
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Age doesn't matter: an open mind does.
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People are poor judges of importance and inflate minutiae to fill time and feel important.
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I now eat four Brazil nuts and one tablespoon of almond butter first thing upon waking.
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Out of clutter, find simplicity. - Albert Einstein
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As chef Mehdi Chellaoui says, "I use lemon like I use salt." Mario Batali would agree: if something is missing, it's probably acid.
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Time is wasted because there is so much time available.
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I gauge success in years, not weeks. The weekend box-office approach to book launches is short sighted and encourages crappy books.
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It is possible to become world-class, enter the top 5% of performers in the world, in almost any subject within 6-12 months, or even 6-12 weeks.
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Throw it all up on the wall and see what sticks.
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May all of your creations have just the right flavor,
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There is more freedom to be gained from practicing poverty than chasing wealth. Suffer a little regularly and you often cease to suffer.
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Strauss, Neil: "'The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.' - Norman Vincent Peale
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if we move beyond the education bubble that we're living in today, the future will be one in which people can speak about these things more clearly.
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Being overwhelmed is often as unproductive as doing nothing, and is far more unpleasant. Being selective - doing less - is the path of the productive.
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Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to being a winner
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I didn't survive, I prepared." Nelson Mandela's answer when Tony asked him, "Sir, how did you survive all those years in prison?
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There has never been a better time for testing the uncommon.
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Refuse to accept partial completeness.
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(1) Define a to-do list and (2) define a not-to-do list. In general terms, there are but two questions:
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Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them. - BILL COSBY
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I am a big believer that if you have a very clear vision of where you want to go, then the rest of it is much easier.
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What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.
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something like, "You're totally right. I never thought about that.
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now routinely listen to her. To have your mind explode, search "Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No 1 FULL Argerich Charles Dutoit" and check out minute 31.
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Productivity is for robots. What humans are going to be really good at is asking questions, being creative, and experiences." Kevin Kelly
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If something offends you, look inward. . . . That's a sign that there's something there.
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No one owes you anything.
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Sometimes having no experience is a huge advantage. Age doesn't matter; an open mind does.
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Parkinson's Law dictates that a task will swell in (perceived) importance and complexity in relation to the time allotted for its completion. It
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A person's success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have.
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Sports just happen to be excellent for avoiding foreign-language stage fright and developing lasting friendships while still sounding like Tarzan.
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The stars will never align
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I really feel like knife skills - not just in the kitchen, but in life - are really critical.
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Doing something unimportant well does not make it important.
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Before spending time on a stress-inducing question or problem, consider this: If you can't define it or act upon it, forget it.
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The Power of Persuasion by Robert Levine. The
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Success, however you define it, is achievable if you collect the right field-tested beliefs and habits.
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Case - a tolerable and comfortable existence doing something unfulfilling. The last is most common and most insidious.
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In a digital world, there are numerous technologies that we are attached to that create infinite interruption.
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I participate in a program called D.E.A.R. which stands for Drop Everything and Read, where a few times a month I come in and read to each class.
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don't label a lot of things good/bad. [Instead, I ask] can I evolve from this? What do I want now?
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The Standard Pace is for chumps.
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Oh, that wasn't a failure. That was a key moment of my development that I needed to take, and I can trust my instinct. I really can.
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People who avoid criticism will fail.
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World barista champions use the AeroPress to make coffee on the folding tray tables of airplanes.
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By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day. - ROBERT FROST,
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Lazy: A Manifesto
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Simple works, complex fails.
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Be focused on work or focused on something else, never in-between.
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I work hard, but in spurts.
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You don't need more recipes. You need to learn to cook without them.
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Remember: There is a direct correlation between an increased sphere of comfort and getting what you want.
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The options are limitless, but each path begins with the same first step: replacing assumptions.
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Do not expect work to fill a void that non-work relationships and activities should.
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The superheroes you have in your mind (idols, icons, titans, billionaires, etc.) are nearly all walking flaws who've maximized 1 or 2 strengths.
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The biggest misconception about work is that you need to spend the majority of your time doing it.
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Learn to slow down. Get lost intentionally. Observe how you judge both yourself and those around you.
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For all their bitching about what's holding them back, most people have a lot of trouble coming up with the defined dreams they're being held from.
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Converting your own passions into a job is the fastest method for eliminating any passion you once had.
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you never want to solve a research problem with language. You
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