"You can lose money and make it back, you can't do that with time."
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"If it's important to you and you want to do it 'eventually', just do it and correct course along the way."
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"Age doesn't matter. An open mind does."
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"Slowing down doesn't mean accomplishing less; it means cutting out counterproductive distractions and the perception of being rushed."
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"Poisonous people do not deserve your time. To think otherwise is masochistic."
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"I'm not a big believer in long-term planning and far-off goals. In fact, I generally set 3-month and 6-month dreamlines. The variables change too much and in-the-future distance becomes an excuse for postponing action."
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"Think big and don't listen to people who tell you it can't be done. Life's too short to think small."
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"What you do is infinitely more important than how you do it."
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"The fishing is best where the fewest go. There is just less competition for bigger goals."
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"Dreamlining is so named because it applies timelines to what most would consider dreams."
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"Luxury is feeling unrushed. It is designing a life that allows you to do what you want with high leverage, with many options, all while feeling unrushed."
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"If we define risk as 'the likelihood of an irreversible negative outcome,' inaction is the greatest risk of all."
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"But if it's tolerable mediocrity, and you're like, 'Well, you know it could be worse. At least I'm getting paid.' Then you wind up in a job that is slowly killing your soul and you're allowing that to happen. Comfort can be a very, very dangerous thing."
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"People are fond of using the its not what you know, its who you know adage as an excuse for inaction, as if all successful people are born with powerful friends. Nonsense."
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"Short, sweet, and to the point. Clear writing, and therefore clear commands, comes from clear thinking. Think simple."
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"The benefits of becoming fluent in a foreign tongue are as underestimated as the difficulty is overestimated. Thousands of theoretical linguists will disagree, but I know from research and personal experimentation with more than a dozen languages that (1) adults can learn languages much faster than children when constant 9-5 work is removed and that (2) it is possible to become conversationally fluent in any language in six months or less. At four hours per day, six months can be whittled down to less than three months."
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"There are no statues erected to critics."
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"Role models who push us to exceed our limits, physical training that removes our spare tires, and risks that expand our sphere of comfortable action are all examples of eustress—stress that is healthful and the stimulus for growth."
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"If you don't have time, you don't have priorities."
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"A friend of mine, Derek Simmons, who's been on the podcast, said, "If more information were the answer, we'd all be billionaires with perfect dads." It comes down to motivation and incentives. If it isn't a punishment or a reward, then it's just talk."
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