Quotes

What did you get done this week?

Fast, lift, sprint, stretch, and meditate.

Build, sell, write, create, invest, and own.

Read, reflect, love, seek truth, and ignore society.

Make these habits. Say no to everything else.

Avoid debt, jail, addiction, disgrace, shortcuts, and media.

Relax. Victory is assured.

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

Stubborn on vision. Flexible on details.

Play long-term games with long-term people.

I hate how well asking myself 'if I had 10x the agency I have what would I do' works.

I have never seen ordinary effort lead to extraordinary results.

Unless you seize the day, it flees. Even though you seize it, it still will flee; therefore you must vie with time's swiftness in the speed of using it, and, as from a torrent that rushes by and will not always flow, you must drink quickly.

Stress primarily comes from not taking action over something that you can have some control over. So if I find that some particular thing is causing me to have stress, that's a warning flag for me. Stress doesn't come from hard work. You can be working incredibly hard and loving it.

Do not disturb yourself by imagining your whole life at once.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

Your energy is best spent with like-minded people who are unstoppable on a mission to make something beautiful.

Don't make the thing to make the money, make the money so that you can make the thing. Don't get paid for work, get paid so that you can do your best work.

Rise up, choose inspiration over envy, and show your younger and older self that the desires of this life were completely and totally exhausted into the universal will.

Doing the reading is a superpower, and it's even better in a world where "no one" is doing the reading.

Most people want to be accepted, so they won't take risks that could make them look crazy—which actually makes them wildly miscalculate risk.