I have never met a mentally strong person who wasn’t a voracious reader.
If you don’t give yourself permission to create a new world, chances are nobody else will.
Everything that happens in your future is a direct result of what you do today.
The only way to learn new things is to ask questions and be curious. Find the people who inspire your curiosity because those are the ones you will most learn from.
Always take the job, pursue the life, and have the friends that allow you to have as much freedom as possible.
The more grateful you are, the more you attract things to be grateful for.
And by the way, I know my title said “10 Reasons” and I only listed “6”. I didn’t learn to count in college.
If something is not a “hell, YEAH!”, then it’s a “no!
Honesty is the fastest way to prevent a mistake from turning into a failure.
Honesty is about the scars. It’s about the blemishes. But it’s more than just bragging about failure, which could be a form of ego. It’s about truly helping people.
My feeling, based on my own experience, is that aiming for grandiosity is the fastest route to failure.
Poker is a skill game pretending to be a chance game.
The people who know personal finance hide the money very carefully.
The people who don’t know personal finance have TV shows about it.
The first rule of personal finance is that it’s not personal and it’s not financial. It’s about your ability to make ten changes and not get too depressed over it.
Don’t time travel into the past, roaming through the nuances as if they can change. Don’t bookmark pages you’ve already read.
Happiness is just a positive perception from our brain. Some days, you will be unhappy. Our brain is a tool we use. It’s not who we are.
Don’t forget: when you start a website, it’s not yet a trusted site. So you have to bring people from a trusted site to your site to build up the trust in your site.
If two people believe in the same story, they might be thousands of miles apart and total strangers, but they still have a sense they can trust each other.
Technology, outsourcing, a growing temp staffing industry, productivity efficiencies, have all replaced the middle class.