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“endings don’t have to be failures, especially when you choose to end a project or shut down a business”
― Timothy Ferriss, Tribe Of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World

“You don’t get a chance to sit around and wallow (or toot your own horn). The important thing is to learn from each failure and try not to repeat it.”
― Timothy Ferriss, Tribe Of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World

“I don’t think failure is sometimes part of the process—it always is. When you feel you can’t go on, know that you’re just getting started.”
― Timothy Ferriss, Tribe Of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World

“The crisis with all creative work is that it requires us to trust that generative voice inside us while also silencing the negative ones.”
― Timothy Ferriss, Tribe Of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World

“Don’t let someone knock you off course before you reach your destination. Trust the work. Always trust the work.”
― Timothy Ferriss, Tribe Of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World

“No one is giving anything their full focus.”
― Timothy Ferriss, Tribe Of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World

“Learn more, know less.”
― Timothy Ferriss, Tribe Of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World

“What is new today is the premise that students are fragile. Even those who are not fragile themselves often believe that others are in danger and therefore need protection.”
― Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting up a Generation for Failure

“The problem with classifying addiction as a disease or choice stunts recovery because it doesn’t take into account what the actual cause is.”
― Eric Potter, Addiction Recovery Skills to Rewire the Brain: A Mindful Workbook to Understand Addiction, Stop Unhealthy Behaviors, Manage Cravings, and Prevent Relapse to Start Living a Mentally Healthy Life

“Behavioral Allocation Disorder is simply a shift from seeing choice as a deliberate and evaluative process, and rather classifies addiction as a maladaptation of behavior.”
― Eric Potter, Addiction Recovery Skills to Rewire the Brain: A Mindful Workbook to Understand Addiction, Stop Unhealthy Behaviors, Manage Cravings, and Prevent Relapse to Start Living a Mentally Healthy Life

“The Community Reinforcement Approach (CRA) aims to create an environment where the community around you can notice behaviors that could lead to relapse and pick you up with rewarding your sobriety.”
― Eric Potter, Addiction Recovery Skills to Rewire the Brain: A Mindful Workbook to Understand Addiction, Stop Unhealthy Behaviors, Manage Cravings, and Prevent Relapse to Start Living a Mentally Healthy Life

“To create is to bring something into existence that wasn’t there before.”
― Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being

“To live as an artist is a way of being in the world. A way of perceiving. A practice of paying attention.”
― Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being

“If you have an idea you’re excited about and you don’t bring it to life, it’s not uncommon for the idea to find its voice through another maker. This isn’t because the other artist stole your idea, but because the idea’s time has come.”
― Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being

“Many great artists first develop sensitive antennae not to create art but to protect themselves. They have to protect themselves because everything hurts more. They feel everything more deeply.”
― Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being

“Look for what you notice but no one else sees.”
― Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being

“Because there’s an endless amount of data available to us and we have a limited bandwidth to conserve, we might consider carefully curating the quality of what we allow”
― Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being

“The objective is not to learn to mimic greatness, but to calibrate our internal meter for greatness. So we can better make the thousands of choices that might ultimately lead to our own great work.”
― Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being

“But if the knowledge exists and is not applied correctly, it is difficult not to be infuriated.”
― Atul Gawande, The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right

“Persistence matters more than talent. The student with straight As is irrelevant if the student sitting next to him with Bs has more passion.”
― Timothy Ferriss, Tribe Of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World

“It’s really easy to say what you’re not. It’s hard to say what you are.”
― Timothy Ferriss, Tribe Of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World

“What policy was I following that produced this bad outcome, and do I still expect that policy to give the best results overall, occasional bad outcomes notwithstanding?”
― Timothy Ferriss, Tribe Of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World

“None of these failures have “set me up” for success, but they have taught me that it’s okay to make a mistake. Because you know what? The Earth doesn’t stop spinning just because you made a mistake. In fact, mistakes are more useful than success in life. I’ve never learned anything from making a success happen.”
― Timothy Ferriss, Tribe Of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World

“Macro patience, micro speed. They should not care about the next eight years, but they should stress the next eight days.”
― Timothy Ferriss, Tribe Of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World

“I’m not worried about my years, because I’m squeezing the fuck out of my seconds, let alone my days. It’s going to work out.”
― Timothy Ferriss, Tribe Of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World

“Most of us are plagued with action bias and really struggle to stay in problem identification.”
― Timothy Ferriss, Tribe Of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World

“Simply stated, despite all the money that the US government has poured into treatment and recovery over the last decade, today there are more Americans with an SUD who need help than there were almost ten years ago.”
― Mark Lefebvre, Healing a Village: A Practical Guide to Building Recovery Ready Communities

“building trust is a powerful door to possibility.”
― Timothy Ferriss, Tribe Of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World

“measure what matters, not just what we can count.”
― Timothy Ferriss, Tribe Of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World

“It starts by standing with the poor, listening to voices unheard, and recognizing potential where others see despair.”
― Timothy Ferriss, Tribe Of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World