Sentence

Wise Sentence

• Harboring a resentment is allowing someone who you don’t like to live inside your head without paying any rent. ^[1]

How to win ^[2]

• Most times we don’t do things because we haven’t broken them down to the most basic form.
• Results comes down to the number of skills they have and number of skills required to understand and execute.
• If you can learn it, it is a skill. If it’s a skill, you can teach it.
• Operationalize: Explain using actions or behaviours you can see with your eyes
• We deal with only what we can measure and observe
• Patience: Figuring our what to do in the meantime. Aka - doing anything besides the thing you’re avoiding, including nothing at all.
• Traits: aka “bucket of large skills” we shorthand for communication
• Learning: same thing happens, you respond differently “Same condition - new behavior”
• Intelligence: How fast you change what you do in the same situation. Aka “rate of learning”
• You may not have ever thought you were smart. But if you change you behavior, you can beat even the “smartest” person
• Confidence: percentage likelihood that something happens (domain specific). Confidence comes from the past, not the present
• How do you improve your confidence percentage? With proof (Do it a lot of times)
• We get more for what we put in when we stick with things.
• A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor
• What makes you extraordinary isn’t what you do, it’s how long you’re willing to do it for.
• Motivation comes from deprivation, and you motivation is proportional to your deprivation.
• With money, deprivation is not physiological. It’s psychological
• You only feel “poor” if you perceive a large gap between where you are and where you really want to be.
• Hang around 5 people worth 10 times more than you, and you’ll feel poorer than you ever did when you were poor around poorer people than you. Aka: changing your “Minimum standard”
• Your environment sets your standards. Change the environment, change the behavior. This is why networks like this are so valuable.
• Wanna feel more motivated? Change who you compare yourself to.
• Compare yourself to the person you genuinely want to become
• If you want to change what you do, change who you compare yourself to.
• We are what we repeatedly do - Aristotle
• So if you want to BE a certain type of person, then you need to DO what the person DOES.
• The work works on you more than you work on it.
• People will eventually describe you that way when the evidence catches up.
• When do you start: The moment you want to be the future version of yourself.
• Winning comes down to making a decision you can 100% control
• Everything must be hard before it can be easy
• Hard times are opportunities to give yourself proof that even this couldn’t stop you

Reference

1. How to never be Angry again | Abraham Twerski ↩
2. How to Win (At ANYTHING) ↩