“Most people have an avoidance orientation toward life. They aren’t acting according to their deepest desires. Instead, they’re playing it safe. They’re calculating their moves to ensure they don’t look stupid. They’re hedging their bets, creating several backup plans in case their dreams don’t quite work out. Ironically, they end up dedicating the majority to their backup plans, and that becomes their life.”
― Willpower Doesn't Work: Discover the Hidden Keys to Success
― Willpower Doesn't Work: Discover the Hidden Keys to Success
“I am done with great things and big things, great institutions and big success, and I am for those tiny, invisible molecular moral forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootlets, or like the capillary oozing of water, yet which if you give them time, will rend the hardest monuments of man's pride.”
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“We are kept from our goal not by obstacles, but by a clear path to a lesser goal.”54”
― Be Your Future Self Now: The Science of Intentional Transformation
― Be Your Future Self Now: The Science of Intentional Transformation
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