Nyumbani Kwanza Stanley

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[Nyumbani Kwanza Stanley @StanLegato]

Reality isn’t A or B. It’s both and it’s neither. Mindfulness keeps you aware of that fact.

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A sense of urgency comes from a powerful connection to the present.

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This could be your last throw of the dice: make it count.

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There is great value in letting people know that when necessary you can let go of your niceness.

[Ryan Holiday @RyanHoliday]

"It never ceases to amaze me: We all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own." — Marcus Aurelius

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Before entering any action, you must calculate in precise terms your exit strategy.

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Understand: the future belongs to groups that are fluid, fast, and nonlinear.

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Establish a frightening reputation. People will back off from you, treating you with respect and a little fear.

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Feeling death at your heels will make all your actions more certain, more forceful.

[Robert Greene @RobertGreene]

Events in life mean nothing if you do not reflect on them in a deep way, and ideas from books are pointless if they have no application to life as you live it.

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Without enemies you will not know how or where to maneuver, and you will lose a sense of your limits, of how far you can go.

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Never take for granted that your past successes will continue into the future.

[Ryan Holiday @RyanHoliday]

How do you comprehend anything important? By doing the work. By going to the source. By returning over and over again, bringing new experiences, new questions, new contexts. Refusing to settle for first impressions, remaining unsatisfied, ever curious.

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Train yourself to read people, picking up the signals they unconsciously send about their innermost thoughts and intentions.

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Place yourself on “death ground,” where your back is against the wall and you have to fight like hell to get out alive.

[Ryan Holiday @RyanHoliday]

“The day a man becomes superior to pleasure, he will also be superior to pain.” — Seneca

[Robert Greene @RobertGreene]

Like everyone, you think you are rational, but you are not. Rationality is not a power you are born with but one you acquire through training and practice.

[Robert Greene @RobertGreene]

Everything that happens to you is a form of instruction if you pay attention.

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Train yourself to read people, picking up the signals they unconsciously send about their innermost thoughts and actions.

[Nyumbani Kwanza Stanley @StanLegato]

@goodreads Robert Greene

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Casanova was perhaps the most successful seducer in history; few women could resist him.

His method was simple: on meeting a woman, he would study her, go along with her moods, find out what was missing in her life, and provide it.

He made himself the Ideal Lover.