Nick DiMaggio’s Reviews > Relentless: From Good to Great to Unstoppable > Status Update

Surround yourself with those who want you to succeed, who recognize what it takes to be successful. People who don’t pursue their own dreams probably won’t encourage you to pursue yours; they’ll tell you every negative thing they tell themselves.

To be great is to be feared, and then respected for doing exactly what everyone feared you would do

Do the work. There is no privilege greater than the pressure to excel, and no greater reward than earning the respect and fear of others who can only stand in awe of your results.

When you deal with stress all the time, it becomes second nature. It’s still not easy or effortless, but you handle things without panicking because you have experience in accepting the rigors of complex challenges.

How else are you going to test what you’re capable of if you don’t truly challenge your ability under every possible circumstance?

Don’t study the competition, make the competition study you.

No emotion, because in the zone the only sensation is anger, a quiet, icy anger simmering under your skin… never rage, never out of control. Silent, like a storm that moves in slow and dark, its violence unseen until it hits, and can’t be measured until it moves on.

You must be addicted to the exquisite rush of success. Your lust for it must be so powerful, the craving must be so intense, that you will alter your entire life to get it. And it’s still never enough. As soon as you feel it, taste it, hold it.. the moment is over and you crave more.

Everyone has a different definition of personal success: some people allow life’s circumstances to decide for them, others decide what they want and say “good enough” when they get it, and then there are a select few who can’t even define success because they keep raising the bar on what that means.