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Simple and unaffected

[☆ @Literarium24]

"The child who obeys you out of fear, will one day lie to you for freedom."

—Niccolò Machiavelli

[Coach the Coaches @WinningCoaches]

"Leaders take on more responsibility even if it isn't their fault." -- Sue Bird

~ via @BallisPsych

[Kobe Bryant Stories & Motivation @kobehighlight]

“To grow, you have to constantly learn. Constantly move. Constantly improve.”

- Kobe Bryant

[Mente Estoico @Mente_estoico]

"La inmensa mayoría de la gente no quiere saber la verdad, sólo quiere tener la razón."

—Dimitri Chezsny

[Robert Greene @RobertGreene]

Being self-reliant is critical. To make yourself less dependent on others and so-called experts, you need to expand your repertoire of skills.

[The Knowledge Archivist @KnowledgeArchiv]

"A good man without strength is only hoping evil has mercy."

— Sun Tzu, The Art of War

[☆ @Literarium24]

The final test of freedom is this:
Can you remain the same person in praise, in insult, in gain, and in loss?

—Seneca

[Coach AJ 🎯 Mental Fitness @coachajkings]

Dusty May shares how he built a culture of never being afraid to fail at Michigan.

"In our program we're very intentional to never be afraid of failure. Literally ever."

"If I ever feel like our guys have any self-doubt or any fear - we bring it to the surface."

"The media's gonna criticize us. It'll be over in 24 hours. All that stuff is vapor. What people are gonna say about us on Twitter is vapor."

Focus on the work, not the criticism or the praise. It's vapor.

"We're more concerned with just doing our best."

"That's not gonna affect our behaviors. We're gonna go out and be unafraid. We're gonna be aggressive. We're gonna let it rip - and trust that the results are gonna be there."

Focus on doing the work and giving your best.

Trust the process and let it rip.

The real enemy of your performance is being too afraid to fail.
(🎥 Way of Champions)

[Investment Wisdom @InvestingCanons]

“If you are not aggressive, you are not going to make money, and if you are not defensive, you are not going to keep money.”

— Ray Dalio

[Coach the Coaches @WinningCoaches]

"A player who makes a team great is better than a great player." -- John Wooden

[The Winning Difference @thewinningdiff1]

As adults, we need to stop 'stealing the struggle' from our kids.
When we 'steal the struggle', we steal their opportunity for growth & learning.
We need to prepare them for the path (teach resilience, reflection, and self-respect), but we can't prepare the path for them.

[Coach AJ 🎯 Mental Fitness @coachajkings]

Pat Summitt shares the philosophy that guided 38 years and 8 national championships.

"You win in life with people."

"It's not about me. I've never scored a basket for the University of Tennessee...It's all about the people you surround yourself with - and what they bring to the court, to the game."

You can't win without having a team there to help. It starts with the people and the team.

"It is a team concept. And they have to do it together."

It was never about her - it was always about them.

Surround yourself with great people.

Great teams know how to trust and come together for a goal bigger than themselves.
(🎥Lifeissport )

[Naruto @NarutoNolimits]

jeff bezos on why playing the long game beats everyone:

1. most things we built took five to seven years before they made the company a single dollar. customers got value right away. but shareholders had to wait years. that gap is exactly where almost everyone gives up.

2. when you hit a problem, never accept either/or thinking. don't choose between two good options invent a way to get both. you can invent your way out of any box if you actually believe you can.

3. listen to customers obsessively. ignore them and you'll go astray. but they won't tell you everything. it's not their job to invent for themselves. you have to invent on their behalf.

4. if you think long-term, you have to be willing to be misunderstood. anything new and disruptive looks wrong in the early innings. we got called amazon.toast and a lot of things i can't repeat here. that's just the toll.

5. when people criticize us we ask one thing: do we actually think we're right? if yes, we keep going. if we think they have a point, we fix it fast. but we never cave just because the pressure wants a short-term answer.

6. thinking in five and seven year frames is far rarer than you'd guess. that's the whole reason it works. while everyone else chases the next quarter, you're quietly building something they can't touch.

[Robert Greene @RobertGreene]

Put yourself in situations where you have too much at stake to waste time or resources—if you cannot afford to lose, you won’t. Place yourself on “death ground,” where your back is against the wall and you have to fight like hell to get out alive.

[Machiavelli Bot @UnmodernmanBot]

A surprising amount of power comes from being hard to rush, hard to flatter, and hard to discourage. Once people realize they cannot speed up your judgment, buy your loyalty cheaply, or shake your direction with temporary pressure, they begin treating your unbending character as a lethal force not to be tampered with.

[Philosway @philosway]

“Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.”

— Hermann Hesse

[Hoop Herald @TheHoopHerald]

Strong words from the greatest Shooter of All Time

“Your state of mind is the main driving force behind your successes and failures”

Thoughts have a frequency

(Via @DanAbrahams77 🎥)

[Fav ⛧ @Favwontmiss]

My favorite line from Atomic Habits has been living in my head rent-free:

“It doesn’t make sense to continue wanting something if you’re not willing to do what it takes to get it. If you don’t want to live the lifestyle, then release yourself from the desire. To crave the result but not the process is to guarantee disappointment.”