

“Perhaps you are overvaluing what you don’t have and undervaluing what you do.”
― 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
― 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

“Ericsson discovered that students in all groups had remarkably similar backgrounds and the only difference between them was the amount of practice time. By the age of 20, exceptional students had practiced on average 10,000 hours; good pianists and violinists 8,000 hours and those most likely to become music teachers 4,000 hours.”
― The Business Idea Factory: A World-Class System for Creating Successful Business Ideas
― The Business Idea Factory: A World-Class System for Creating Successful Business Ideas

“You can only find out what you actually believe (rather than what you think you believe) by watching how you act. You simply don’t know what you believe, before that. You are too complex to understand yourself.”
― 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
― 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

“To stand up straight with your shoulders back is to accept the terrible responsibility of life, with eyes wide open. It means deciding to voluntarily transform the chaos of potential into the realities of habitable order. It means adopting the burden of self-conscious vulnerability, and accepting the end of the unconscious paradise of childhood, where finitude and mortality are only dimly comprehended. It means willingly undertaking the sacrifices necessary to generate a productive and meaningful reality (it means acting to please God, in the ancient language).”
― 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
― 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

“I just want to be right—I don’t care if the right answer comes from me.”
― Principles: Life and Work
― Principles: Life and Work
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