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"It is predicated on the assumption that you dislike what you are doing during the most physically capable years of your life. This is a nonstarter—nothing can justify that sacrifice."
"In all cases where doubt crops up, ask yourself, "If I had a gun to my head and had to do it, how would I do it?" It's not as hard as you think."
"There are two synergistic approaches for increasing productivity that are inversions of each other: 1. Limit tasks to the important to shorten work time (80/20). 2. Shorten work time to limit tasks to the important (Parkinson's Law). The best solution is to use both together: Identify the few critical tasks that contribute most to income and schedule them with very short and clear deadlines."
"I think time management as a label encourages people to view each 24-hour period as a slot in which they should pack as much as possible."
"If you see distraction externally, you end up creating an internally distracted state."
"Learn the art of the pitch and of messaging."
"If you let pride stop you, you will hate life"
"The problem with New Year's resolutions - and resolutions to 'get in better shape' in general, which are very amorphous - is that people try to adopt too many behavioral changes at once. It doesn't work. I don't care if you're a world-class CEO - you'll quit."
"Work is an activity that is financially-driven or one that you'd like to do less of."
"What do you want?' is too imprecise to produce a meaningful and actionable answer."
"People feel personally slighted if you don't respond to them in 30 seconds and treat email as instant messenger."
"I do my best writing between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m.. Almost every friend I have who is a consistently productive writer, does their best writing between 10 p.m. and 8 a.m. My quota is two crappy pages per day. I keep it really low so I'm not so intimidated that I never get started. I will do the gathering of interviews and research throughout the day. I'll get all my notes and materials together and then I'll do the synthesis between 10 p.m. to bed, which is usually 4 or 5 a.m."
"Converting your own passions into a job is the fastest method for eliminating any passion you once had."
"To have an uncommon lifestyle, you need to develop the uncommon habit of making decisions, both for yourself and for others."
"The way that you become world-class is... by asking good questions."
"I have plenty of money to do what I want to do, and I have the relationships."
"There are tons of things in your home and life that you don't use, need, or even particularly want. They just came into your life as impulsive flotsam and jetsam and never found a good exit. Whether you're aware of it or not, this clutter creates indecision and distractions."
"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."
"The manifesto of the dealmaker is simple: Reality is negotiable."
"Most people can do absolutely awe-inspiring things. Sometimes they just need a little nudge."