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Do less, so that you can unlock more

Self-Confidence = Perception of Ability - Perception of Standards!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If we believe our ability is higher than the standard needed, then we’re confident. If we believe our ability is lower than the standard needed, then we’re doubtful.

The main way uncertainty drives procrastination is by creating ambiguity over our ultimate purpose. If we don’t know why we’re embarking on any given project, it’s near impossible to get on with actually doing it.

‘A shared joy is a double joy; a shared sorry is a half sorrow.’

When we can’t take ownership of the situation, we can still take ownership of the process.

Of course, people will try hard to win respect they believe they lack, and the winners will try hard not to lose the respect they have won.

Nonetheless, few people are ever satisfied with what is before them at the moment. Our desire that things be different from what they are pulls our minds into an unreal world, and consequently we are less able to appreciate what the present has to offer. Our minds leave the reality of the present only when we prefer the unreality of the past or future.

When one learns how to change a habit, it is a relatively simple matter to learn which ones to change. Once you learn how to learn, you only have to discover what is worth learning. It is much more difficult to break a habit when there is no adequate replacement for it.

If we let ourselves lose touch with our ability to feel our actions, by relying too heavily on instructions, we can seriously compromise our access to our natural learning processes and our potential to perform.

You should free yourself from any emotional reaction to success or failure; simply know your goal and take objective interest in the results.

Be clear about this: Letting go of judgments does not mean ignoring errors. It simply means seeing events as they are and not adding to them.

“My conclusion can be summed up in a single word: design. I say that based on science. I believe that irreducibly complex systems are strong evidence of a purposeful, intention design by an intelligent agent. No other theory succeeds; certainly not Darwinism.”

If the universe had not been made with the most exacting precision we could never have come into existence.

“You see, everything else being equal, we tend to prefer hypotheses that are natural extrapolations of what we already know.”

“the fine-tuning of the universe, they’re generally referring to the extraordinary balancing of the fundamental laws and parameters of physics and the initial conditions of the universe. Our minds can’t comprehend the precision of some of them. The result is a universe that has just the right conditions to sustain life. The coincidences are simply too amazing to have been the result of happenstance”

“In three minutes, 98% of all the matter there is or will ever be has been produced. We have a universe. It is a place of the most wondrous and gratifying possibility, and beautiful, too. And it was all done in about the time it takes to make a sandwich.”

“All of us have a tendency to minimize God, to think and behave as if we weren’t really immersed in his creation and that we aren’t ourselves the product of his unimaginable creative power. Looking at the evidence — in nature and in Scripture — reminds me over and over again of who he is. And it reminds me of who I am too — someone in need of him.”