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“No, it never is, in the beginning. Goals can become gods. You start to serve them, live for them, and sacrifice for them. In the beginning, it was about your money serving you. But at some point, do you think you switched roles?”
“Better technique trumps more effort.”
― How to Become a Straight-A Student
― How to Become a Straight-A Student
“karoshi (death by overwork).”
― Your Money or Your Life
― Your Money or Your Life
“Structure = Freedom”
― The Perfect Day Formula: How to Own the Day and Control Your Life
― The Perfect Day Formula: How to Own the Day and Control Your Life
“believe that the reason people typically miss the big moments of evolution coming at them in life is because they experience only tiny pieces of what’s happening. We are like ants preoccupied with our jobs of carrying crumbs in our very brief lifetimes instead of having a broader perspective of the big-picture patterns and cycles, the important interrelated things driving them, where we are within the cycles, and what’s likely to transpire.”
― Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail
― Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail
“The pseudo-worker looks and feels like someone who is working hard—he or she spends a long time in the library and is not afraid to push on late into the night—but, because of a lack of focus and concentration, doesn’t actually accomplish much.”
― How to Become a Straight-A Student
― How to Become a Straight-A Student
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