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“Cut yourself some slack. Remember, one hundred years from now, all new people. —Message tacked to a tree by monks at Wat Umong, a 700-year-old temple in Thailand”
― Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One
― Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One
“You can learn to enjoy calculated risk and uncertainty in exchange for adventure, flexibility, freedom, and opportunity.”
― Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One
― Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One
“the gut contains over 500 million neurons, equivalent in size and complexity to a cat’s brain, and is the source of 90 percent of our body’s serotonin production. The gut-brain is primal, forming in the womb before the heart- and head-brains. It”
― Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One
― Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One
“Stanford University psychologist Carol Dweck, author of Mindset: The Psychology of Success, discovered in her research that the most successful people are those with a growth mindset”
― Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One
― Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One
“Uncertainty is the only certainty there is, and knowing how to live with insecurity is the only security.” —John Allen Paulos”
― Life After College: The Complete Guide to Getting What You Want
― Life After College: The Complete Guide to Getting What You Want
“Travel teaches us to push past our fears, find courage to explore our inner and outer world, and forces us to turn off autopilot.”
― Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One
― Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One
“However, there is no time like your twenties to develop good habits for the rest of your life—it will only get harder as you get older when your metabolism slows and you have more responsibility at home and work. Strong nutrition and fitness habits will give you more energy, more focus, and more confidence.”
― Life After College: The Complete Guide to Getting What You Want
― Life After College: The Complete Guide to Getting What You Want
“most of us fall into one of three relationship types: anxious”
― Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One
― Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One
“As Steve Jobs said in his 2005 Stanford commencement speech, “You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward.”
― Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One
― Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One
“Decisions are data. You can only spin on a set of questions for so long before the better thing to do is to get something in motion”
― Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One
― Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One
“life is about enjoying and appreciating the ups while learning and growing from the downs.”
― Life After College: The Complete Guide to Getting What You Want
― Life After College: The Complete Guide to Getting What You Want
“Making assumptions and then taking them personally is the beginning of hell in this world.”
― Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One
― Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One
“Individuals have a hard time foreseeing where they will be”
― Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One
― Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One
“For every opportunity you get”
― Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One
― Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One
“Eric Ries, author of the business bible The Lean Startup, defines a business pivot as “a change in strategy without a change in vision.”
― Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One
― Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One
“More and more what we care about in the second machine age are ideas”
― Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One
― Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One
“Remember: if you wait too long to pivot”
― Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One
― Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One
“Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it”
― Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One
― Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One
“People change, and so do friendships. Sometimes you will grow together; sometimes you will grow apart. Make the best of every friendship when you can.”
― Life After College: The Complete Guide to Getting What You Want
― Life After College: The Complete Guide to Getting What You Want
“The fantasy is that there is org”
― Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One
― Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One
“Success isn’t permanent, and failure isn’t fatal. —Mike Ditka”
― Life After College: The Complete Guide to Getting What You Want
― Life After College: The Complete Guide to Getting What You Want
“Prevent trouble before it arises. Put things in order before they exist. The giant pine tree grows from a tiny sprout. The journey of a thousand miles starts from beneath your feet. Rushing into action”
― Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One
― Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One
“What you can plan is too small for you to live.”
― Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One
― Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One
“If you experience failure fallout”
― Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One
― Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One
