50 Short Rules For a Better Life copy
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- No one knows what they’re doing. Some do it anyway.
- Work hard on what doesn’t feel like work.
- Your thoughts make up your life. Literally. If you don't enjoy thinking about it, don't spend time pursuing it.
- To make new friends, treat strangers like you’ve been friends forever.
- If you want to win awards, be the best. If you want to actually win, be the only.
- Most people don’t need advice. They need one person to believe in them.
- Meditate to upgrade your software. Work out to upgrade your hardware.
- When you can't decide, the answer is obvious.
- Pick one problem to solve this decade, and problems today get a lot easier.
- The happiest people combine art, passion, and purpose, into one compounding vehicle.
- Spend time with freaks. They have dashes of genius, madness, harshness and kindness. Authenticity doesn't live in the middle.
- The world wants to know you for one thing. Do everything you want, but own one idea.
- To be heard, don’t follow the herd.
- Fill your mind with inspiration from the edges. Read old books. Walk new streets. Unique ideas starts with unique input.
- People can feel the energy you put into your work.
- When you’re good, they tell you. When you’re great, they tell others.
- If you’re following steps, you’re falling behind.
- The more you’re hesitating to share it, the more you desperately need to.
- Art is a marathon of creative sprints.
- The more you write, the more you’re right.
- Never apologize for doing something good for you, but strange for others.
- The future of work is not 'play.' It's a relentless obsession with what sets your heart on fire. This isn't a game. It's war. With a beautiful, torturous craft that consumes your entire life.
- If you’re being copied, you’re on to something.
- Life is short. The world is small. You owe it to yourself, to bet everything on a dream you don’t want to wake up from.
- Obsess over the details for a decade, and you will win.
- When you’re predictably unpredictable, they pay attention.
- Life gets easier when you fall in love with hard things.
- Don’t ‘be’ things. Do things.
- Working out without your phone will solve 99% of your problems.
- If you're not obsessed with the future you're creating, create a new one.
- If your problems were given to a friend, you’d know exactly what they should do.
- When you’re stuck between two things, choose a third.
- Happiness can be measured by how excited you are to wake up.
- The more obsessed you are with your craft, the more relaxed you’ll be with your life.
- If you think you need a haircut, get a haircut.
- If you can make decisions quickly, and unemotionally, the world is yours.
- Use technology more than it uses you.
- If you want people to follow you, lead them somewhere.
- Focus on art for a decade, and profit will come for a lifetime.
- When you start enjoying pressure, you’re about to win big.
- Most progress comes without a plan.
- Everyone is dying to talk about *something.* Notice when their voice changes, when their eyes light up, and let them share that world with you. Make people feel seen for their obsessions.
- Great writing isn’t read. It’s felt.
- Use your dark side to make something bright.
- True greatness is a rare combination of obsession, service, and patience.
- Pain tells you exactly where to go.
- Don't trust an ideas you 'think' of. The greatest ideas come to you. And you have no other choice.
- Life's short. Go make stuff.
- Put yourself in places you don't belong. One day, you'll end up where you want to be.
- The number one rule: Break as many rules as possible.
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