Part II - Quotes from book "Tribe of Mentors"
Continuation from Part I...
- Everyone wants to be brave, but no one wants to be vulnerable.
- Einstein said, " If I had an hour to solve problem, I'd spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and five minutes thinking about solutions.
- Addiction is short term desire, purpose is long-term desire.
- If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake.
- Everyone wants to see themselves as a good person.
- The world needs healers and problems-solvers who use their hearts. Your heart is a million times more powerful than your brain.
- Ask yourself in a meeting, "Am I able to make a difference right now ?"
- Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise, instead, seek what they sought.
- The things you own end up owning you.
- Conventional wisdom that is more convention than wisdom.
- Your dreams are the blueprint to reality.
- I compartmentalize and DIN and DIP ( "do it now" and "do it proper")
- Always ask: what am I missing ? and listen to the answer.
- Often when you think you're at the end of something, you're at the beginning of something else.
- We don't really want to know why almost all USDA meat inspectors become vegetarian.
- True success is doing something you love for a living.
- The actual consequences of your actions matter far more than your actions themselves.
- Life Shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
- Either you are in , or you are in the way.
- Part of knowing who you are is knowing who you are not.
- If you want to go fast, go alone, but if you want to go far, you must go together.
- Don't believe everything you think.
- It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
- Most of the game is about persistence. It is the most important trait.
- But originality only happens on the edges of reality. And working on the line is always dangerous because it's only a short step to disconnected insanity.
- That some of the most successful deals are those you don't do.
- To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.
- Live for something that's bigger than you are
- Pursue learning, personal discipline, growth. And to seek out connections with people across the planet.
- The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
- To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.
- At the elite level, where everyone is fit and strong, it will be the mind that separates.
- Discard everything that doesn't spark joy.
- You're the average of your five closest friends.
- Most people live for about 30,000 days.
- You need to spend time with your best performers, not just with all of your problems.
- The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are sure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
- If you set a goal, it should meet these two conditions:
- It matters
- You can influence the outcome
- Stay away from the trend! Identify, recognize, but stay away.
- The lifetime cost of emotional isolation far exceeds the pain of occasional betrayal.
- To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children.. to leave the world a bit better... to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived; this is to have succeeded.
- Discipline equals freedom.
- Focus on personal resilience and emotional intelligence.
- Feeding your mind is how you become your own best coach.
- Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
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