(Extracted from StunningMotivation.com by Shawn Lim) Like all other plants and trees, the Chinese bamboo tree requires nurturing through water, fertile soil, and also with enough sunshine to ensure that it will...
(Extracted from JamesClear.com) Kobe isn’t merely showing up and practicing a lot. He is practicing with purpose.Kobe had a very clear goal at practice: 800 made jump shots. He was deliberately focused...
(Extracted from How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big by Scott Adams) You often hear advice from successful people that you should “follow your passion.” That sounds perfectly reasonable the first...
(Extracted from How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big by Scott Adams) The Success Formula: Every Skill You Acquire Doubles Your Odds of Success Notice I didn’t say anything about the level of...
(Extracted from Be More With Less by Courtney Carver) An American investment banker was at the pier of a small coastal Mexican village when a small boat with just one fisherman docked. Inside the small boat were...
(Extracted from The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari by Robin Sharma) “Peter could never live in the moment. He had not learned to enjoy the process of life. When he was in school, he dreamed of being outside playing....
(Extracted from Antifragile by Nassim Taleb) This kind of sum I’ve called in my vernacular “f*** you money” – a sum large enough to get most, if not all, of the advantages of wealth (the most important one...
(Extracted from The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli) All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it’s impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition...
(Extracted from What I Do When it Feels Like My Work Isn’t Good Enough by James Clear) In particular, there was one quote from Gallwey that made me pause and rethink my early months of writing and self-doubt....
(Extracted from The Art of the Good Life by Rolf Dobelli) Research confirms that expectations have a profound impact on happiness, and that unrealistic expectations are among the most effective killjoys. One...
