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“Whatever excites you, go do it. Whatever drains you, stop doing it.”
― Derek Sivers

“Make sure you know what makes you happy, and don’t forget it.”
― Derek Sivers, Anything You Want

“Every time you're making a choice, one choice is the safe/comfortable choice - and one choice is the risky/uncomfortable choice. the risky/uncomfortable choice is the one that will teach you the most and make you grow the most, so that's the one you should choose.”
― Derek Sivers

“To me, 'busy' implies that the person is out of control of their life.”
― Derek Sivers

“People often ask me what they can do to be moresuccessful. I say disconnect. Even if just for a few hours. Unplug. Turn off your phone and Wi-Fi. Focus. Write. Practice. Create. That’s what’s rare and valuable these
days.

You get no competitive edge from consuming the same stuff everyone else is consuming.”
― Derek Sivers, Hell Yeah or No: What's Worth Doing

“Learning without doing is wasted. If I don’t use what I learn, then it was pointless! How horrible to waste those hundreds of hours I spent learning, and not turn it into action.”
― Derek Sivers, Hell Yeah or No: What's Worth Doing

“any business that’s in business to sell you a cure is motivated not to focus on prevention”
― Derek Sivers, Anything You Want

“If you keep experiencing the same things, your mind keeps its same patterns. Same inputs, same responses. Your brain, which was once curious and growing, gets fixed into
deep habits. Your values and opinions harden and resist change.

You really learn only when you’re surprised. If you’re not surprised, then everything is fitting into your existing thought patterns. So to get smarter, you need to get surprised, think in new ways, and deeply understand different perspectives.

With effort, you could do this from the comfort of home. But the most effective way to shake things up is to move across the world. Pick a place that’s most unlike what you
know, and go. This keeps you in a learning mindset. Previously mindless
habits, like buying groceries, now keep your mind open, alert, and noticing new things. New arrivals in a culture often notice what the locals don’t. (Fish don’t know they’re in water.)”
― Derek Sivers, Hell Yeah or No: What's Worth Doing

“In the end, it’s about what you want to be, not what you want to have.”
― Derek Sivers, Anything You Want: 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur

“If you set up your business like you don’t need the money, people are happier to pay you. When someone’s doing something for the money, people can sense it, like they sense a desperate lover. It’s a turnoff. When someone’s doing something for love, being generous instead of stingy, trusting instead of fearful, it triggers this law: We want to give to those who give.”
― Derek Sivers, Anything You Want: 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur

“Don't be on your deathbed someday, having squandered your one chance at life, full of regret because you pursued little distractions instead of big dreams.”
― Derek Sivers, Anything You Want

“Never forget why you’re really doing what you’re doing. Are you helping people? Are they happy? Are you happy? Are you profitable? Isn’t that enough?”
― Derek Sivers, Anything You Want: 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur

“If you think your life's purpose needs to hit you like a lightning bolt, you'll overlook the little day-to-day things that fascinate you.”
― Derek Sivers, Anything You Want

“When you sign up to run a marathon, you don’t want a taxi to take you to the finish line.”
― Derek Sivers, Anything You Want

“Just pay close attention to what excites you and what drains you. Pay close attention to when you're being the real you and when you're trying to impress an invisible jury.”
― Derek Sivers, Anything You Want

“Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.”
― Laurence J. Peter

“If two wrongs don't make a right, try three.”
― Laurence J. Peter

“In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.”
― Laurence J. Peter, The Peter Principle

“There is an art, it says, or rather, a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. … Clearly, it is this second part, the missing, which presents the difficulties.”
― Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything