%% ID: 12438573 Updated: 2021-12-29 %% ![](https://readwise-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/static/images/default-book-icon-9.63dbe834380e.png) # About Title: [[Other/Obsidian Starter Vault(Second Brain)/Readwise 1/Books/How to Live]] Author: [[Derek Sivers]] Category: #books Number of Highlights: ==315== Last Highlighted: *2021-12-29* Readwise URL: https://readwise.io/bookreview/12438573 # Highlights But if you avoid pain, you avoid improvement. Avoid embarrassment, and you avoid success. Avoid risk, and you avoid reward. ([1](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=1)) ^262017614 --- The crisis — the most painful moment — defines the hero. ([2](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=2)) ^262017616 --- The goal of life is not comfort. Pursuing comfort is both pathetic and bad for you. ([3](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=3)) ^262018941 --- If you overprotect yourself from pain, then every little challenge will feel unbearably difficult ([4](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=4)) ^262018945 --- People say they’re not doing the work because it’s hard. But it’s hard because they’re not doing the work. ([5](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=5)) ^262018947 --- Comfort is a silent killer. ([6](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=6)) ^262018949 --- The right thing to do is never comfortable. ([7](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=7)) ^262018962 --- Always take the harder option. Always push into discomfort. Ignore your instincts. ([8](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=8)) ^262018972 --- Choosing pain makes it bearable. It loses its power to hurt you. You become its master, not victim. ([9](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=9)) ^262019104 --- Practice thriving with bad luck. Bad luck makes you resourceful and strong. No matter what the world throws your way, you can stand worse. ([10](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=10)) ^262019193 --- Food that tastes good is bad for you, and vice-versa. So don’t use your feelings as a guide. ([11](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=11)) ^262019196 --- Choose pain in small doses to build your resistance to it ([12](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=12)) ^262019198 --- Put yourself into stressful situations. Eventually, almost nothing will seem stressful. ([13](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=13)) ^262019201 --- Socially, try to get rejected. Learn about “rejection therapy”. Make audacious requests that you think will be denied. ([14](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=14)) ^262019202 --- No matter how embarrassing or frustrating, communicate only in your new language. ([15](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=15)) ^262019211 --- Necessity is the best teacher. ([16](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=16)) ^262019212 --- Attempt something that seems impossible — something that terrifies you. Give a speech. Do a ten-day silent meditation. Quit a habit. Apologize to someone you wronged ([17](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=17)) ^262019245 --- Remember: you want the pain. The sooner you pay a price, the less it costs. ([18](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=18)) ^262019249 --- Always say the truth. Take the painful consequences. ([19](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=19)) ^262019253 --- You weren’t meant to be idle. You weren’t built for sitting and staring at screens. You live to push, pull, climb, and grow. ([20](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=20)) ^262019255 --- Since you can’t avoid problems, just find good problems. Happiness isn’t everlasting tranquility. Happiness is solving good problems. ([21](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=21)) ^262019258 --- To be passionate about something is to be willing to suffer for it — to endure the pain it’ll bring. ([22](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=22)) ^262019260 --- Every pain has a lesson inside, and a reason why it hurts. Analyze it. Understand it. ([23](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=23)) ^262019263 --- Face them directly and they’ll disappear. ([24](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=24)) ^262019393 --- The easy road leads to a hard future. The hard road leads to an easy future. Steering towards the pain is how to live. ([25](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=25)) ^262019401 --- Do whatever you want now. ([26](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=26)) ^262019437 --- The past? That’s what we call our memories. The future? That’s what we call our imagination. Neither exists outside of your mind. The only real time is this moment. ([27](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=27)) ^262019486 --- Do whatever you like. You don’t need explanations. ([28](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=28)) ^262019492 --- People think they’ll do something later. They think they’ll have more time in the future than they do today, as if later is a magical time when everything will happen. ([29](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=29)) ^262019502 --- If you want to do something, do it now. If you don’t want to do it now, then you don’t want to do it at all, so let it go. ([30](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=30)) ^262019504 --- When you’re happy, you think better. More of your brain is engaged. You’re more open to possibilities and connecting ideas. ([31](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=31)) ^262110340 --- Your feelings are wise. Bad feelings mean you need to take action. ([32](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=32)) ^262110369 --- Good feelings mean you took the right action. Following your feelings is the most natural and rewarding thing to do. ([33](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=33)) ^262110371 --- a famous pioneer. ([34](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=34)) ^262110668 --- Doing whatever you want, at every moment, is how to live. ([35](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=35)) ^262110669 --- the power of the pioneer: To enable the impossible. ([36](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=36)) ^262110671 --- To show others that they can do it too, and take it even further. ([37](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=37)) ^262110672 --- The old finish line becomes the new starting line. ([38](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=38)) ^262110714 --- Marco Polo wasn’t the first European to reach China, but he was the first to write a book about it. Then his book inspired Christopher Columbus, and so on. ([39](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=39)) ^262110735 --- Pioneers have a massive impact on the world because their stories help people do things they wouldn’t have dreamed of otherwise. ([40](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=40)) ^262110738 --- A famous pioneer does more for human progress than a billion others who live a normal life. ([41](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=41)) ^262110744 --- So if you want to help humanity while having the most exciting life, then the way to live is to be a famous pioneer. ([42](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=42)) ^262110745 --- Go to new extremes. Try new ideas. Visit undiscovered cultures. Show what can be done. ([43](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=43)) ^262110746 --- Pursue massive media attention, not for vanity or ego, but so your stories can open minds, spark imaginations, and lead to further explorations ([44](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=44)) ^262110756 --- Record everything on video. Find ways to make the story arc happen in real life. ([45](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=45)) ^262110758 --- If this life is really your destiny, do it until it kills you. Always pushing to see how far you can go, if you die during an adventure, you’ll die happy, knowing you pushed it as far as you could. ([46](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=46)) ^262110956 --- Escape anonymously into your new life. ([47](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=47)) ^262110985 --- Chase the future. ([48](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=48)) ^262111166 --- Live in the world of tomorrow. Surround yourself only with what’s brand new and upcoming. ([49](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=49)) ^262111172 --- Stay on the cutting edge of things so new they barely exist. Every new invention will come to you first, before the world has heard of it. ([50](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=50)) ^262111195 --- Learn the basics of every field, so you can understand new innovations in logistics or chemistry or anything else. ([51](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=51)) ^262111196 --- Listen only to new music. Watch only new shows. Use only the newest media. ([52](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=52)) ^262111199 --- Don’t get invested in any one thing. Stay immersed only in what’s coming next. ([53](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=53)) ^262111213 --- Old friends and family see you as you used to be, and unintentionally discourage your growth. ([54](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=54)) ^262111215 --- Avoid Europe and anywhere that lives in the past. ([55](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=55)) ^262111874 --- Places that resist change have no vision, only memories. ([56](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=56)) ^262111998 --- Avoid religion because faith is not meant to be questioned. Tradition is the opposite of what you want. Nothing worshipped will change. ([57](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=57)) ^262112042 --- Oppose convention because that’s how things were. Slavery was a convention. Human sacrifice was a convention. Denying human rights to women was a convention. ([58](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=58)) ^262112046 --- Since you live in the future, start condemning them now. ([59](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=59)) ^262112047 --- Value only what has endured. ([60](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=60)) ^262112050 --- Old technologies aren’t exciting because they aren’t changing as fast. ([61](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=61)) ^262112097 --- The media focuses on what’s new, because that’s what pays. ([62](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=62)) ^262112099 --- Their attention makes new things seem important. ([63](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=63)) ^262112127 --- New things have some benefits but deeper downsides like addiction, pollution, scattered focus, or wasted time. ([64](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=64)) ^262112139 --- The pleasure of buying a new thing disappears in days, even hours. ([65](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=65)) ^262112165 --- So the way to live is to ignore everything new. All of it. Let the test of time filter everything. Value only what has endured. ([66](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=66)) ^262112167 --- The best things in life aren’t things. ([67](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=67)) ^262112168 --- If it’s important, there will eventually be a good book about it. ([68](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=68)) ^262112176 --- because it’s not important. ([69](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=69)) ^262112186 --- people ask you about current news, proudly have no opinion. ([70](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=70)) ^262112187 --- The modern life is shallow and distracted. The timeless life is deep and focused ([71](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=71)) ^262112509 --- the truly important things are quiet. Life is incredibly peaceful when you shut out the noise. ([72](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=72)) ^262112510 --- Time is the best filter. ([73](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=73)) ^262112511 --- Be the last to adopt a technology, after it’s cheaper, better, and no longer changing. ([74](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=74)) ^262112512 --- Technology advances faster than wisdom. It’s smarter to move at wisdom’s pace. ([75](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=75)) ^262112515 --- Before trying to improve something old, find out why it is the way it is. Never assume people in the past were ignorant. ([76](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=76)) ^262112517 --- They did it that way for good reasons. ([77](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=77)) ^262112519 --- Study history, tradition, and culture. Get to know places that haven’t been homogenized by globalization ([78](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=78)) ^262112522 --- The world is acting crazy because it doesn’t know who it is anymore. ([79](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=79)) ^262112524 --- Find happiness and perspective in nature. It reminds you that you don’t need anything the modern world is pushing. ([80](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=80)) ^262112535 --- Learn time-tested skills that were just as useful in your grandparents’ time as they are today. ([81](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=81)) ^262112536 --- Speaking, writing, gardening, accounting, persuasion, and survival skills. ([82](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=82)) ^262112537 --- Master the fundamentals, not new tricks. Learn the timeless aspects of your craft. ([83](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=83)) ^262112540 --- Become a geologist. You’ll measure things in millions of years. ([84](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=84)) ^262112566 --- The best way to live is to value only what has endured. ([85](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=85)) ^262112638 --- Learn. ([86](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=86)) ^262112640 --- Learning is underrated. People wonder why they’re not living their ideal life. Maybe they never learned how. ([87](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=87)) ^262112642 --- You get healthy by learning healthy habits. You get wealthy by learning valuable skills. You build a great interpersonal life by learning people skills. ([88](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=88)) ^262112643 --- The biggest obstacle to learning is assuming you already know. Confidence is usually ignorance. ([89](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=89)) ^262112667 --- Don’t believe what you think. Have questions, not answers. Doubt everything. The easiest person to fool is yourself. ([90](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=90)) ^262112670 --- If you’re not embarrassed by what you thought last year, you need to learn more and faster. ([91](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=91)) ^262112674 --- Be surprised by something every day. Find that exciting moment when you get a completely new perspective. ([92](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=92)) ^262112684 --- Whatever you hate, get to know it. Then you won’t hate it anymore. ([93](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=93)) ^262112747 --- Whatever scares you, go do it. Then it won’t scare you anymore. ([94](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=94)) ^262112782 --- Talk with people you usually avoid. Pursue subjects you know nothing about, and experiences unlike anything you’ve done before. ([95](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=95)) ^262112783 --- Only idiots never change their mind. ([96](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=96)) ^262112785 --- Learning leaves a trail of little deaths. ([97](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=97)) ^262112786 --- Remember what you learn. Know why you’re learning. Information doesn’t stick without emotion. You learn better when you’re having fun. ([98](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=98)) ^262112787 --- Take notes. Review them often. Make flash cards to remind your future self what you learned today. Quiz yourself with spaced repetition. Knowledge fades and eventually disappears unless you keep it refreshed. ([99](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=99)) ^262112788 --- Internalize it. Don’t expect to just look it up when you need it. ([100](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=100)) ^262112789 --- Integrate it into how you think. ([101](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=101)) ^262112801 --- A vivid, visceral feeling of danger will teach you better than words. ([102](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=102)) ^262112812 --- Communicate knowledge to others to make sure you understand. ([103](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=103)) ^262112825 --- Don’t quote. Put it in your own words without looking up or referencing what others said. ([104](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=104)) ^262112826 --- To communicate clearly, you have to think clearly. ([105](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=105)) ^262112829 --- Writing is refined thinking. Public speaking tests your writing on a real audience. Great public speaking comes from great private thinking. ([106](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=106)) ^262112830 --- Teaching and learning are telepathy. ([107](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=107)) ^262112831 --- Learning makes you a better person and makes the world a better place. Learning is a pursuit you can’t lose. As you age, you’ll lose muscle and beauty, but you won’t lose your wisdom. ([108](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=108)) ^262112842 --- Follow the great book. ([109](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=109)) ^262112866 --- Your book is wiser than you. ([110](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=110)) ^262113019 --- It’s not just someone’s opinion. It has the definitive answers to the choices you’re confronted with each day. Don’t think you know better. ([111](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=111)) ^262113023 --- Your book is the expert on how to live. It’s helped millions of people. Defer to its wisdom. ([112](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=112)) ^262113029 --- If your book is ancient, you may think it’s not enough since it doesn’t mention modern life. But nothing is truly new. Morals seem like they’ve changed in recent history. ([113](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=113)) ^262113071 --- books written thousands of years ago sound like they could have been written today. ([114](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=114)) ^262113072 --- You don’t lack direction. You have too many directions. ([115](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=115)) ^262113074 --- Show that you’re interested. Allow silence. Don’t fill it. Silence gives space to think, and an invitation to contribute without pressure. ([116](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=116)) ^262257422 --- Be warm, open, and fully present with everyone you encounter. ([117](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=117)) ^262258229 --- Confidence attracts. Vulnerability endears. ([118](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=118)) ^262258230 --- Assume everyone is just as smart and deep as you. ([119](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=119)) ^262258458 --- Don’t be mad at them for being that way, for the same reason you can’t be mad at someone for being tall ([120](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=120)) ^262259765 --- Appreciate differences. A conversation with a clone of yourself would be boring ([121](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=121)) ^262260077 --- A sincere compliment can put a lot of fuel in someone’s tank. People don’t hear enough compliments. ([122](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=122)) ^262260637 --- Be consistent. People can only depend on you if you’re consistent. ([123](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=123)) ^262261187 --- Always be kind, no matter how you feel. ([124](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=124)) ^262262360 --- You need someone else’s perspective on your situation. ([125](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=125)) ^262263705 --- Success in business comes from helping people — bringing the most happiness to the most people. ([126](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=126)) ^262266240 --- Serve your clients’ needs, not your own. ([127](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=127)) ^262266733 --- Business, when done right, is generous and focused on others. ([128](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=128)) ^262272576 --- The most extreme version of living for others is becoming famous. Do everything in public, for the public. Share everything you do, even though it’s extra work. ([129](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=129)) ^262272967 --- It’s giving yourself to the world. ([130](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=130)) ^262273153 --- Your caring should grow until it reaches past your community, past your country, past your generation, and past your species. ([131](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=131)) ^262273480 --- Care about strangers across the world as much as you do your family. ([132](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=132)) ^262273645 --- Care about all forms of life as much as you do humans. Living for others is how to live. ([133](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=133)) ^262273926 --- Get rich. ([134](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=134)) ^262273938 --- Making money isn’t evil, greedy, shallow, or vain. ([135](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=135)) ^262274465 --- don’t pretend it doesn’t matter. ([136](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=136)) ^262274659 --- Money can represent freedom, safety, experience, generosity, attractiveness, power, or whatever you want. ([137](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=137)) ^262274797 --- money is as neutral as math. ([138](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=138)) ^262275120 --- Making money is proof you’re adding value to people’s lives. ([139](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=139)) ^262276581 --- Aiming to get rich is aiming to be useful to the world. ([140](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=140)) ^262276915 --- It’s striving to do more for others. Serving more. Sharing more. Contributing more. The world rewards you for creating value. Pursue wealth because it’s moral, good, and unlimited. ([141](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=141)) ^262277096 --- Money is social. It was invented to transfer value between people. ([142](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=142)) ^262277740 --- Think about what’s valuable to others. ([143](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=143)) ^262277960 --- Money doesn’t care about your race, gender, education, physique, family, or nationality. Anyone can be rich. ([144](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=144)) ^262278453 --- Making money is a skill like any other. Learn it and practice it as you would anything else. ([145](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=145)) ^262278610 --- It works better than force, rules, punishment, or appealing to generosity. Great art has been created in pursuit of profit. ([146](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=146)) ^262279087 --- The world is full of money. There’s no shortage. So capture the value you create. Charge for what you do. ([147](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=147)) ^262279869 --- Remember that many people like to pay. ([148](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=148)) ^262279870 --- The more something costs, the more people value it. ([149](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=149)) ^262280458 --- By charging more, you’re actually helping them use it and appreciate it. ([150](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=150)) ^262280693 --- Value yourself higher, then rise to fit this valuation. ([151](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=151)) ^262281001 --- Be fully committed to getting rich, or it won’t happen. ([152](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=152)) ^262281042 --- Aiming to be rich makes you think bigger, which is more exciting, more fun, and less conventional since most people don’t think big. ([153](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=153)) ^262283012 --- The world needs more boldness. ([154](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=154)) ^262283013 --- Boldly jump on opportunities. Take risky action. ([155](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=155)) ^262283266 --- Use other people’s ideas. Ideas are worth almost nothing. Execution is everything. ([156](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=156)) ^262283727 --- Better to be filled with action than ideas. Best of all to be the owner. Own and control 100% of whatever you create. ([157](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=157)) ^262283761 --- Avoid competition. Never be another contender in the crowd, fighting for scraps. ([158](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=158)) ^262283770 --- It doesn’t pay to do something anyone can do. Be separate — in a category of your own. ([159](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=159)) ^262283900 --- Instead of fighting to split an existing dollar, inventing creates a dollar out of thin air. ([160](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=160)) ^262283916 --- Invent for a very small niche of people who need something that doesn’t exist. ([161](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=161)) ^262283918 --- Technology is improving faster, so a successful business model doesn’t last as long as it used to. ([162](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=162)) ^262284105 --- You’ll be disrupted by others if you don’t keep improving or disrupting yourself. ([163](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=163)) ^262284106 --- The fun is in creating a business, not maintaining it. ([164](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=164)) ^262284107 --- As soon as you have extra money, invest it. ([165](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=165)) ^262284131 --- Be disciplined, not clever. It’s a matter of math, not mood. ([166](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=166)) ^262284134 --- Emotions are the enemy of investing. ([167](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=167)) ^262284142 --- Investing is easy unless you try to beat the market. ([168](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=168)) ^262284282 --- Be happy with a good-enough return from passive index funds that represent the entire world economy. ([169](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=169)) ^262284285 --- Just take a few minutes per year to rebalance. ([170](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=170)) ^262284286 --- Don’t over-think it. ([171](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=171)) ^262284287 --- Speculating is not investing. Never speculate. Never predict. Be humble, not arrogant. Never think for one second that you know the future. ([172](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=172)) ^262284296 --- Remind yourself over and over again that nobody knows the future. Ignore anyone that says they do. ([173](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=173)) ^262284297 --- Don’t act rich. Don’t lose touch with regular people. Stay frugal. ([174](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=174)) ^262284300 --- Don’t buy too many things, too big of a house, or hire too many people. Rich people who do this feel trapped and miserable. ([175](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=175)) ^262284303 --- The less you buy, the more you’re in control. ([176](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=176)) ^262284304 --- Forget lifestyle. Forget yourself. Stay 100% focused on creating value. Everything else is a corrupting distraction. ([177](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=177)) ^262284306 --- Nothing destroys money faster than seeking status. Don’t show off. Don’t invest in a business you don’t control. Don’t loan money to a friend, or you’ll lose your money and your friend. ([178](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=178)) ^262284308 --- Don’t convince yourself your home is an asset. Your home is an expense, not an investment, because it doesn’t put money in your pocket each month. ([179](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=179)) ^262284313 --- One downside is you don’t get excited about money anymore. It used to feel so exciting to make $5000. Now you don’t even notice it. ([180](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=180)) ^262284316 --- Someone could give you another million dollars, and it wouldn’t change a thing. ([181](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=181)) ^262284320 --- The extra millions won’t make you extra happy. ([182](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=182)) ^262284321 --- Say no to more stuff. Say yes to more choices. ([183](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=183)) ^262284322 --- Money makes problems go away, but amplifies personality traits. ([184](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=184)) ^262284328 --- Money won’t change you, but it will amplify who you are. ([185](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=185)) ^262284329 --- Don’t be the dragon in the mountain, just sitting on your gold. ([186](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=186)) ^262284331 --- Don’t lose momentum in life. ([187](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=187)) ^262284332 --- Reinvent yourself regularly. ([188](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=188)) ^262284339 --- the connection is fiction. ([189](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=189)) ^262331068 --- There is no line between moments in time. ([190](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=190)) ^262331644 --- Definitions are just your old responses to past situations. What you call your personality is just a past tendency. New situations need a new response. ([191](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=191)) ^262331651 --- Disagree with the question. You aren’t supposed to be easy to explain. ([192](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=192)) ^262331677 --- Your identity. Your meanings. Your trauma. ([193](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=193)) ^262331678 --- Putting a label on a person is like putting a label on the water in a river. It’s ignoring the flow of time ([194](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=194)) ^262331705 --- Your past is not your future. ([195](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=195)) ^262331716 --- You’re an ongoing event — a daily improvisation — responding to the situation of the moment. ([196](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=196)) ^262331728 --- You’ve changed so much over time. Your past self is as different from your current self as you are from other people. ([197](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=197)) ^262331789 --- Whatever happened before has nothing at all to do with what happens next. ([198](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=198)) ^262331790 --- Doing what you’ve always done is bad for your brain. If you don’t change, you’ll age faster and get stuck. ([199](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=199)) ^262331792 --- The way to live is to regularly reinvent yourself. ([200](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=200)) ^262331793 --- Every year or two, change your job and move somewhere new. Change the way you eat, look, and talk. Change your preferences, opinions, and usual responses. Try the opposite of before. ([201](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=201)) ^262332037 --- Disconnect from your past. Cut all common threads. Keep nothing permanent. No tattoos. Remain a clean slate. ([202](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=202)) ^262332059 --- At every little decision, ten times a day, choose the thing you haven’t tried. Act out of character. ([203](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=203)) ^262332060 --- Nature changes seasons at regular intervals. So should you. We can’t prolong one season. Never stay too long. ([204](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=204)) ^262332088 --- Love. ([205](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=205)) ^262332181 --- Love is a combination of attention, appreciation, and empathy ([206](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=206)) ^262332202 --- It’s not something that happens to you. It’s something you do. You choose to love something or someone. You can love anything or anyone you decide to love. ([207](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=207)) ^262332203 --- Work is love in action ([208](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=208)) ^262332462 --- You can make shallow small-talk, or really get to know someone. Choose to connect every time. ([209](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=209)) ^262332463 --- Sharing is connecting. Share your knowledge. Share your home. Share your time. ([210](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=210)) ^262332464 --- Learning is loving. The more you learn about something, the more you can love it. ([211](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=211)) ^262332466 --- If you are apathetic about or against something, learn more about it. ([212](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=212)) ^262332479 --- People aren’t used to someone being sincerely interested, so they’ll need some coaxing to continue. ([213](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=213)) ^262332615 --- When someone tells you what’s broken, they want you to love the brokenness, not try to eliminate it. ([214](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=214)) ^262332617 --- Break down the walls that separate you from others and prevent real connections. ([215](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=215)) ^262332618 --- Don’t text when you should talk. ([216](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=216)) ^262332624 --- Keep communicating instead of shutting down. ([217](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=217)) ^262332758 --- We think walls protect us from enemies, but walls are what create enemies in the first place. ([218](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=218)) ^262332759 --- The hardest part of connecting with someone is being honest. ([219](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=219)) ^262349830 --- Honesty is deep. Always tell the real truth, or they’ll never know the real you, so you’ll never really feel loved ([220](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=220)) ^262349847 --- Don’t exaggerate to be more entertaining. Don’t downplay. ([221](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=221)) ^262349851 --- Just be honest. If you’ve done something great, say so. If you’re not doing well, say so. ([222](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=222)) ^262349853 --- If you have feelings for someone, and you don’t let that person know, you’re lying with your silence ([223](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=223)) ^262349854 --- Be direct. It saves so much trouble and regret. ([224](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=224)) ^262349855 --- ideally, when with others, be the same person you’d be when alone. ([225](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=225)) ^262349893 --- Flirting and romance is like eating dessert first. ([226](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=226)) ^262350541 --- The more you really connect with people, the more you learn about yourself: what excites you, what drains you, what attracts you, and what intimidates you ([227](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=227)) ^262350551 --- Notice how you feel around people. Notice who brings out the best in you. Notice who makes you feel more connected with yourself — more open and more honest. ([228](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=228)) ^262350629 --- Don’t try to change someone, or teach them a lesson, unless they ask you to. ([229](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=229)) ^262350720 --- It’s easy to love someone’s best qualities, but it’s work to love their flaws. ([230](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=230)) ^262350721 --- When one of you is being childish, the other needs to be the adult. ([231](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=231)) ^262350763 --- One of you has to stay upright to keep the other from collapsing. ([232](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=232)) ^262350904 --- Be together by choice, not necessity or dependence. ([233](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=233)) ^262350947 --- Just give them a great environment where they can thrive. Give them the safety to experiment, make mistakes, and fail up. ([234](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=234)) ^262351524 --- Create. ([235](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=235)) ^262351540 --- Most people die with everything still inside of them. ([236](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=236)) ^262351541 --- The way to live is to create. Die empty. Get every idea out of your head and into reality. ([237](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=237)) ^262351550 --- Calling yourself creative doesn’t make it true. All that matters is what you’ve launched. Make finishing your top priority. ([238](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=238)) ^262351554 --- Which would you rather be? Someone who hasn’t created anything in years because you’re so busy consuming? Or someone who hasn’t consumed anything in years because you’re so busy creating? ([239](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=239)) ^262352129 --- When most people see modern art, they think, “I could do that!” But they didn’t. ([240](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=240)) ^262352130 --- Don’t wait for inspiration. Inspiration will never make the first move. She comes only when you’ve shown you don’t need her ([241](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=241)) ^262352139 --- Do your work every day, no matter what. ([242](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=242)) ^262352169 --- You can improve something bad. You can’t improve nothing. ([243](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=243)) ^262352182 --- Suspend all judgment when creating the first draft. Just get to the end. It’s better to create something bad than nothing at all. ([244](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=244)) ^262352183 --- Most of what you make will be fertilizer for the few that turn out great. ([245](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=245)) ^262352303 --- Keep creating as much as you can ([246](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=246)) ^262352347 --- Creativity is a magic coin. The more you spend, the more you have. ([247](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=247)) ^262352348 --- Only creating makes you creative. ([248](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=248)) ^262352379 --- Embrace what’s weird about you, and use it to create. ([249](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=249)) ^262352380 --- Never think you need to be normal or perfect. Flawless people don’t need to make art. ([250](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=250)) ^262352401 --- Don’t just express yourself. Discover yourself. Create questions, not answers. Explore whatever excites you most. If you’re not excited by it, your audience won’t be either. ([251](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=251)) ^262352404 --- Imitate your heroes. It’s not copying because it won’t be the same. Your imitation of anything will be unrecognizably warped by your own twisted perspective. ([252](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=252)) ^262352630 --- Most creations are new combinations of existing ideas. Originality just means hiding your sources. ([253](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=253)) ^262352749 --- Creating is a higher form of communicating. ([254](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=254)) ^262352750 --- Creating is telepathy. You speak directly to people across the world, whether days or decades from now, connecting your mind to theirs. ([255](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=255)) ^262352751 --- When your creation is good enough, let it go. Release it, so it can go out into the world, without you. ([256](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=256)) ^262352795 --- you are proud of what you made, it was a success. The less you please everyone else, the more you please your fans. Real success comes not from the crowd, but from feeling proud. ([257](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=257)) ^262352850 --- Collect ideas in a crowd. Create in silence and solitude. Like your bedroom, your work space needs to be private. ([258](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=258)) ^262352877 --- Distribute your work as widely as you can. Do whatever it takes to call attention to it. Art needs an audience. There are no unknown geniuses. ([259](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=259)) ^262352972 --- Keep a counterweight job. Something effortless that covers your bills. Something you can do a few hours per day, but otherwise not think about. ([260](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=260)) ^262353032 --- It gives discipline and regularity to your life. It gives deadlines and freedom to your art. ([261](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=261)) ^262353119 --- Create until your last breath. Let your last spark of life go into your work. Die empty, so death takes only a corpse. ([262](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=262)) ^262353132 --- When you’re gone, your work shows who you were. Not your intentions. Not what you took in. Only what you put out. ([263](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=263)) ^262353150 --- Don’t die. ([264](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=264)) ^263522860 --- Don’t try to be more right. Just be less wrong. ([265](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=265)) ^263522991 --- Win by not losing. ([266](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=266)) ^263523010 --- Reduce risks. ([267](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=267)) ^263523013 --- What do you want out of life? That’s hard to answer. What don’t you want? That’s easy. ([268](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=268)) ^263523016 --- Insults affect you more than compliments. Injuries affect you more than back rubs. Poison affects you more than medicine. ([269](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=269)) ^263523244 --- Most of eating healthy is just avoiding bad food. ([270](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=270)) ^263523270 --- Don’t waste a single minute. Life can be long if you use time wisely. But wasting time brings death quicker. Time is the only thing that can’t be replaced. ([271](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=271)) ^263523273 --- Make a million mistakes. ([272](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=272)) ^263523279 --- you should deliberately make as many mistakes as possible. ([273](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=273)) ^263523286 --- Try absolutely everything, all the time, expecting everything to fail. ([274](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=274)) ^263523288 --- Just make sure that you capture the lessons from each experience. ([275](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=275)) ^263523289 --- And never make the same mistake twice. ([276](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=276)) ^263523290 --- Trying to write a great song is hard. Trying to write a bad song is easy and fun. ([277](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=277)) ^263523305 --- Writers say you should quickly finish a bad first draft, because it gets the idea out of your head and into reality, where it can then be improved. ([278](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=278)) ^263523306 --- Jump into action without hesitation or worry. ([279](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=279)) ^263523307 --- You’ll be faster and do more than everyone else. ([280](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=280)) ^263523313 --- The more mistakes you make, the faster you learn. ([281](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=281)) ^263523341 --- If you’re not surprised, it means the new information fits in with what you already know. ([282](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=282)) ^263523357 --- try to be wrong. Try to disprove your beliefs. Never believe something on faith. Prove it or disprove it. ([283](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=283)) ^263523389 --- Just keep a log. A mistake only counts as experience if you learn from it. Record what you learned, and review it. Otherwise, it was a waste. ([284](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=284)) ^263523659 --- If you’re prepared for endless failures, you’ll never think of yourself as a failure. ([285](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=285)) ^263523717 --- There’s only one difference between a successful person and a failure. A failure quits, which concludes the story, and earns the title. ([286](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=286)) ^263523718 --- Your million mistakes will make you someone that can’t be knocked down. ([287](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=287)) ^263523834 --- They think they know everything. They over-invest in one solution. They have only answers, not questions. ([288](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=288)) ^263524048 --- If you’re never wrong, you never change. ([289](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=289)) ^263524135 --- Keep making mistakes, so you can keep changing, learning, and growing. ([290](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=290)) ^263524347 --- Make change. ([291](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=291)) ^263524639 --- Change the world as much as you can. All your learning and thinking is wasted if you don’t take action. ([292](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=292)) ^263524697 --- If you go through life without changing anything, what have you done? Just observed?! ([293](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=293)) ^263524977 --- People dream or complain about how the world should be, but nothing improves without action. You have to go change things yourself. ([294](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=294)) ^263525339 --- all progress comes from those who ignore the boundaries, break the rules, or make a whole new game. ([295](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=295)) ^263525632 --- Begin by righting what’s wrong. Look for what’s ugly: ugly systems, ugly rules, ugly traditions. ([296](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=296)) ^263526941 --- Instead of fixing, destroy what was there and replace it with something better ([297](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=297)) ^263526943 --- Yet people with the best intentions can end up doing harm. So stop judging and start changing the world any way you can. ([298](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=298)) ^263527015 --- Don’t worship your heroes. Surpass them. ([299](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=299)) ^263527018 --- Changing culture makes revolution. But it’s not a revolution if nobody loses. Someone will have to lose. People will be furious. When the bad people are mad, you’re doing it right. ([300](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=300)) ^263527092 --- To live a praise-worthy life, to make a difference, you have to make change. ([301](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=301)) ^263527097 --- Balance everything ([302](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=302)) ^263527121 --- All bad things in life come from extremes. Too much of this. Too little of that. ([303](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=303)) ^263527178 --- Focused on wealth, but ignoring health. Focused on the present, but ignoring the future. ([304](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=304)) ^263527268 --- If you rise to great heights in only one area, you’re a one-legged giant: easily toppled. ([305](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=305)) ^263527308 --- When you’re balanced, you’re unlikely to get stressed. You’ve got a stronger foundation and a resilient structure. You can handle surprises, and make time for what’s needed. ([306](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=306)) ^263527327 --- Balance input and output, consumption and creation, stability and adventure, body and spirit. Your opposing needs become each other’s remedy. ([307](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=307)) ^263527353 --- Schedule everything to ensure balance of your time and effort. Scheduling prevents procrastination, distraction, and obsession. A schedule makes you act according to the goals of your highest self, not your passing mood ([308](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=308)) ^263527379 --- The balanced schedule protects you from hurting yourself, from getting overwhelmed and ignoring important needs ([309](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=309)) ^263527428 --- A routine triggers inspiration because your mind and body learn that ideas emerge at that time. ([310](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=310)) ^263527451 --- Set an alarm to start and stop on time. Obey your schedule, no matter how you feel. Schedule every hour of your day. Distraction steals what’s not locked down. ([311](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=311)) ^263527459 --- Balance your needs versus the needs of others. Balance your knowledge. Read books on core subjects you know nothing about. ([312](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=312)) ^263527461 --- Balance the abilities of your body. Improve your flexibility, strength, coordination, and ability to perform different types of movements. ([313](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=313)) ^263527464 --- inally, balance the world. Help lift up those who have been pushed down. Counterbalance sexism, racism, and religious discrimination. Feed the hungry. Balance justice. Balance human nature. ([314](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=314)) ^263527521 --- By balancing everything in your life, you postpone nothing. You won’t postpone happiness, dreams, love, or expression. You could die happy at any time. Balancing everything is how to live. ([315](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=315)) ^263527546