Treat failure like a scientist.

Each attempt is an experiment. Each mistake is a clue.

You're not failing. You're refining.

The rich are those who play to win. The middle class plays not to lose.

– Robert Kiyosaki

"The Paradox of Freedom: The way to expand your freedom is to narrow your focus.

    Stay focused on saving to achieve financial freedom.
    Stay focused on training to achieve physical freedom.
    Stay focused on learning to achieve intellectual freedom.

The disciplined become the free." 

The game theory is unforgiving: when everyone can produce 10x more, the baseline resets, leaving us all running faster just to stay in place

The question to ask is not, ‘What’s wrong with this person?’ but ‘What does this irritation tell me about myself?’”

an ‘influencer’ makes me so uncomfortable – it’s not just the naked commercialism, but the way it celebrates influence divorced from substance

Creativity is the periscope through which the unconscious looks out onto the world and renders what it sees. The rendering is what we call art, and it is as much a picture of the seer as of the seen.

See what’s possible—and if that door won’t open? Kick it down.

Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness.

– Alejandro Jodorowsky

Research consistently links gratitude with life satisfaction. When comparison triggers negative feelings, redirect your focus to what’s going right in your life.

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Trust is the ultimate retention strategy

"Your best performances will come when you are working in a way that is a full expression of you. The work becomes a natural display of your personality. This is when you not only get better results, but also love the activity — because in doing the craft, you feel alive."

"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less."

Average people do average things:

    They gossip, complain, shirk responsibility, and are often rude to others.

The New Year is coming...

Don't be average.

"there is someone out there with a wound in the exact shape of your words." 

To hope is to give yourself to the future – and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable.

– Rebecca Solnit

You stop playing a character, and start being yourself. 

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Often, individuals go through life thinking they are each an isolated wave, forgetting that the wave is actually part of a vast, interconnected ocean.

Often, you cannot stop inner storms, but you can learn to anchor yourself

Not crazy for the sake of crazy, but crazy for the sake of progress. Demonstrable, undeniable, awe-inspiring progress

The nightmare of materialism, which has turned the life of the universe into an evil, useless game, is not yet past, it holds the awakening soul still in its grip

The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.

– Jiddu Krishnamurti

When walking, walk. When eating, eat.

“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” 

happiness is like a butterfly, if you chase it will run away but if you stand still it will come to you 

the barber also needs a barber because they can't cut their own hair 

The unsung heroes are those navigating life’s complexities, aka poorly defined problems, with grace and wisdom. – Kai

“This is the only real concern of the artist,
to recreate out of the disorder of life
that order which is art.”
 
James Baldwin