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“One of the biggest benefits of being an entrepreneur is freedom. You are your own boss. You don’t have to answer to anyone. You create the rules.”
― Shaan Patel, Self-Made Success: 48 Secret Strategies To Live Happier, Healthier, And Wealthier

“A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks he becomes.” —Gandhi”
― Shaan Patel, Self-Made Success: 48 Secret Strategies To Live Happier, Healthier, And Wealthier

“Never let someone tell you that you can’t do something. The negativity someone projects on you is just a reflection of the fears that they latently harbor themselves.”
― Shaan Patel, Self-Made Success: 48 Secret Strategies To Live Happier, Healthier, And Wealthier

“Social media has made focusing on the present an especially difficult task. It’s so easy to open Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or Snapchat and observe happy moments that others are having. This can decrease your own happiness because you regret that you didn’t take part in those past moments or worry that you won’t have similar moments in the future.”
― Shaan Patel, Self-Made Success: 48 Secret Strategies To Live Happier, Healthier, And Wealthier

“The closing record from Jay Z’s Black Album is called “My 1st Song.” He starts the song with an audio clip from Notorious B.I.G. saying that, “The key to staying on top of things is treat everything like it's your first project.”
― Shaan Patel, Self-Made Success: 48 Secret Strategies To Live Happier, Healthier, And Wealthier

“We expect that life will be better once we are done with premed, medical school, and residency. But it doesn’t get better. It will stay the same … unless you change your mentality. Enjoy the now. Enjoy studying for the organic chemistry test if you are a premedical student. Enjoy rotating through general surgery as a medical student. Enjoy working 80-hour weeks as a resident. If you do not enjoy your current situation, you will not enjoy your future one.”
― Shaan Patel, Self-Made Success: 48 Secret Strategies To Live Happier, Healthier, And Wealthier

“Ghandi said, “An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.” Don’t fight fire with fire. Put the fire out with water.”
― Shaan Patel, Self-Made Success: 48 Secret Strategies To Live Happier, Healthier, And Wealthier

“All that we are is a result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become.” —Buddha”
― Shaan Patel, Self-Made Success: 48 Secret Strategies To Live Happier, Healthier, And Wealthier

“and remember that everything happens for a reason. The worst case will likely be the best case in the long run—you just can’t connect the dots as to why yet.”
― Shaan Patel, Self-Made Success: 48 Secret Strategies To Live Happier, Healthier, And Wealthier

“See failure as an opportunity. Every time I fail at something, the disappointment is only temporary. I quickly remember that once I overcome this failure, I will have an inspiring story to share with others.”
― Shaan Patel, Self-Made Success: 48 Secret Strategies To Live Happier, Healthier, And Wealthier

“always put yourself in the other person’s shoes. Think about what they care about. Think about what they are interested in. Think about what they are thinking. In other words, be genuinely interested in them.”
― Shaan Patel, Self-Made Success: 48 Secret Strategies To Live Happier, Healthier, And Wealthier

“If you are a “what-if” person, then focusing on the now can be particularly difficult. My mom is a “what-if” person. She worries about all kinds of future scenarios: What if my dad never retires? What if Shaan doesn’t find a good wife to marry? What if she has a major health problem? All of these “what-ifs” are pointless to think about because they all occur in imaginary scenarios within my mom’s mind’s future.”
― Shaan Patel, Self-Made Success: 48 Secret Strategies To Live Happier, Healthier, And Wealthier

“British scientist Lord William Kevin once said, “If you study science deep enough and long enough, it will force you to believe in God.”
― Shaan Patel, Self-Made Success: 48 Secret Strategies To Live Happier, Healthier, And Wealthier

“Embrace Failure When you have faith that everything happens for a reason, then it’s very hard for failure to disturb you. If you begin to view failures as having purpose, then you don’t become as irked by them as others would. Having the faith to embrace failure and believing that everything will work out makes you mentally unshakeable.”
― Shaan Patel, Self-Made Success: 48 Secret Strategies To Live Happier, Healthier, And Wealthier

“The Law of Attraction states that you attract what you think about. You can achieve any goal by visualizing it in your mind, writing the goal down, and positively affirming to yourself that the goal has already been achieved.”
― Shaan Patel, Self-Made Success: 48 Secret Strategies To Live Happier, Healthier, And Wealthier