“If you’re achieving all your goals, you’re not setting them aggressively enough.”
― Work Rules!: Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead
― Work Rules!: Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead
“Put simply, because many professionals are almost always successful at what they do, they rarely experience failure. And because they have rarely failed, they have never learned how to learn from failure. … [T]hey become defensive, screen out criticism, and put the “blame” on anyone and everyone but themselves. In short, their ability to learn shuts down precisely at the moment they need it the most.”
― Work Rules!: Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead
― Work Rules!: Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead
“Convenience is not an acceptable foundational value for society. It’s a disease.”
― The Body Book: The Law of Hunger, the Science of Strength, and Other Ways to Love Your Amazing Body
― The Body Book: The Law of Hunger, the Science of Strength, and Other Ways to Love Your Amazing Body
“Don’t prepare. Begin.”
― Do the Work
― Do the Work
“Rule of thumb: The more important a call or action is to our soul’s evolution, the more Resistance we will feel”
― Do the Work
― Do the Work
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