Arnold Schwarzenegger's no complaining rule:
“No complaining about a situation unless you're prepared to do something to make it better. If you see a problem and you don't come to the table with a potential solution, I don't want to hear your whining about how bad it is. It couldn't be that bad if it hasn't motivated you to try to fix it.”
In our culture we tend to equate thinking and intellectual powers with success and achievement.
In many ways, however, it is an emotional quality that separates those who master a field from the many who simply work at a job.
Our levels of desire, patience, persistence, and confidence end up playing a much larger role in success than sheer reasoning powers.
Feeling motivated and energized, we can overcome almost anything.
Feeling bored and restless, our minds shut off and we become increasingly passive.
“Life humbled you. As you get old, you stop chasing the big things and start valuing the little things.
Alone time, enough sleep, a good diet, friendships, long walks, and quality time with loved ones.
True wealth is peace of mind, and simplicity becomes the ultimate goal.”
The problem is not people being uneducated.
The problem is that people are educated just enough to believe what they have been taught, and not educated enough to question anything from what they have been taught.
—Professor Richard Feynman
Common causes of bad decisions:
1. Not asking, “and then what?”
2. Blindness to large trends (blind spots)
3. Assumptions based on small sample sizes
4. Conforming to expectations/authority/group
5. Wanting the world to work the way we want rather than the way it does
5 Habits That Are Killing Your Productivity:
1. You don’t wake up early (Marcus Aurelius)
2. You focus on what’s outside your control (Epictetus)
3. You don’t know how to say “no” (Seneca)
4. You’re in the wrong crowd (Marcus Aurelius)
5. You think you’ll live forever (Seneca)