Success is Not Linear

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Truth

Truth

Farnam Street Knowledge

Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

"Sometimes success is 3% brains and 97% not getting distracted by the Internet." - Shane Parrish

"Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?" - Charles Bukowski

"Happiness is what's there when you remove the sense that something is missing in your life." - Naval Ravikant

"Every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things." - G.K. Chesterton

Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

"Your success in life depends on your ability to make good decisions. Your happiness depends on your ability to not care about the outcomes." - Naval Ravikant

"Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free." - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

"If a person has sustained success in any long-term ambition - whether it was losing weight, growing a business, sustaining an extraordinary relationship - then luck has nothing to do with it. They're doing something different than you are." - Tony Robbins

 "We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that's waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come." - Joseph Campbell

Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- NFL Sunday Ticket on YouTube TV pricing unveiled. $449 if you aren't a YouTube TV subscriber and $349 if you are. No thanks.

- Robert Kennedy Jr. to announce his candidacy for President at April 19th event in Boston. I just may attend.

- Morgan Housel on What Makes You Happy

- Sam Altman on How to be Successful

True Success

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Quotes for Today

 Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

"I'm an optimist by nature, and humor has been one of my great teachers." - Matthew McConaughey

"Most successful people are just a walking anxiety disorder harnessed for productivity." - Andrew Wilkinson

"It is easier to recognize other people's mistakes than our own." - Daniel Kahneman

"...we used to call them kings and priests, now we call them experts and fact-checkers." - Marc Andreessen

Quotes for Today

 Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

"Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible." - Richard Feynman

"Don't hope that events will turn out the way you want, welcome events in whichever way they happen: this is the path to peace." - Epictetus

"Many times an old man has no other evidence besides his age to prove he lived a long time." - Seneca

"Success, however you define it, is achievable if you collect the right field-tested beliefs and habits." - Tim Ferriss

Farnam Street Knowledge

The Common Denominator of Success.

"The common denominator of success - secret of success of every individual who has ever been successful - lies in the fact that he or she formed the habit of doing things that failures don't like to do.

It's just as true as it sounds and it's just as simple as it seems."

Long read but worth it. Lot's of truth and good practical advice such as, "Every single qualification for success is acquired through habit. People form habits and habits form futures."

Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

"Your success in life depends on your ability to make good decisions. Your happiness depends on your ability to not care about the outcomes." - Naval Ravikant

"Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free." - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

"If a person has sustained success in any long-term ambition - whether it was losing weight, growing a business, sustaining an extraordinary relationship - then luck has nothing to do with it. They're doing something different than you are." - Tony Robbins

 "We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that's waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come." - Joseph Campbell

Habits

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Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

"I'm an optimist by nature, and humor has been one of my great teachers." - Matthew McConaughey

"Most successful people are just a walking anxiety disorder harnessed for productivity." - Andrew Wilkinson

"Simplicity is the hallmark of truth - we should know better, but complexity continues to have a morbid attraction." - Edsger Dijkstra

"It is easier to recognize other people's mistakes than our own." - Daniel Kahneman

Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

"The greatest threat to success is not failure but boredom." - James Clear

"Men desire novelty to such an extent that those who are doing well wish for change as much as those who are doing badly." - Machiavelli

 "Sustaining an effort is the most important thing for any enterprise. The way to be successful is to learn how to do things right, then do them the same way every time." - Pat Riley

"Envy was once considered to be one of the seven deadly sins before it became one of the most admired virtues under its new name 'social justice.'" - Thomas Sowell

Quotes for Today

Some quotes that I hope may resonate with you.

"The experience of two centuries [has] shown... gradualism in theory, is perpetuity in practice." - William Lloyd  Garrison

"I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"There is no winning formula to success. Instead, consistent success is normally found in people who constantly push themselves." - Peter Thiel

"Science is not a noun. It is not a person, or a group of persons. It is a process." - Peter Attia

Farnam Street Knowledge

The Common Denominator of Success.

"The common denominator of success - secret of success of every individual who has ever been successful - lies in the fact that he or she formed the habit of doing things that failures don't like to do.

It's just as true as it sounds and it's just as simple as it seems."

Long read but worth it. Lot's of truth and good practical advice such as, "Every single qualification for success is acquired through habit. People form habits and habits form futures."

Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

"Problems are conflicts between ideas." - David Deutsch

"You want to be an artist, but you want other people to starve for your art." - Louis B. Mayer

"Wake me up before you go go." - Wham

"Success is to be able to control the quality and balance of your life." - Chris Petersen

"Never take any man's opinion as final. Never take your opinion as final. Never expect anyone to help you but yourself." - Irving Thalberg

"We're way more wired to be selfish than for the for the greater good of others but the paradox is, it gives us so much more joy when we are about others." - Chris Petersen

Farnam Street

- Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son

- Your Thinking Rate is Fixed

- Reading Better

Quotes for Today

 Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

"Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day." - Jim Rohn 

"Your library is your paradise." - Desiderius Erasmus

"No man is a failure who has friends. Unless he has no money. Then he's a miserable failure." - Henry F. Potter

"I've been doing a lot of abstract painting lately, extremely abstract. No brush, no paint, no canvas, I just think about it." - Steven Wright

"Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." - Voltaire

"It is never too late to be what you might have been." - George Elliot 

"The most important trick to be happy is to realize that happiness is a choice you make and as skill set that you develop. You choose to be happy, and then you work at it. It's just like building muscles." - Naval Ravikant