inspiring quotes

Life is a delicate balance between ‘ready, aim, fire’ and ‘ready, fire, aim’

Before setting any goals, define the person you want to be.

No one else can be your missing piece.

What we really need is rarely what we think we need. But we don’t know this.

Everything you do and, by extension, everything you are, is filtered through everything you think, and everything you feel.

Your brain is ruled by biases… You can hardly trust what you think you know.

Today always bleeds into tomorrow.

The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.

We have, as human beings, a storytelling problem. We’re a bit too quick to come up with explanations for things we don’t really have an explanation for.

Underneath all that polite bullshit we’re all running on caveman software.

Nobody can save you from yourself.

Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece.

To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.

Invert, always invert: Turn a situation or problem upside down. Look at it backward. What happens if all our plans go wrong? Where don’t we want to go, and how do you get there? Instead of looking for success, make a list of how to fail instead — through sloth, envy, resentment, self-pity, entitlement, all the mental habits of self-defeat. Avoid these qualities and you will succeed. Tell me where I’m going to die, that is, so I don’t go there.

Your eyes can only see and your ears can only hear what your brain is looking for.

The act of revealing your whole self to someone else and having them reciprocate. That’s true love.

The secret to success is giving up on the idea of success altogether.