%% ID: 12472199 Updated: 2021-12-28 %% ![](https://readwise-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/static/images/default-book-icon-4.11327a2af05a.png) # About Title: [[Other/Obsidian Starter Vault(Second Brain)/Readwise/Books/Do Epic Shit]] Authors: [[Warikoo]], [[Ankur]] Category: #books Number of Highlights: ==208== Last Highlighted: *2021-12-28* Readwise URL: https://readwise.io/bookreview/12472199 # Highlights His thoughts range from the importance of creating habits for long-term success to the foundations of money management, from embracing and accepting failure to the real truth about learning empathy. ([1](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=1)) ^262801411 --- This is a book to be read, and reread, a book whose lines you will underline and think about again and again, a book you will give your family and friends and strangers. ([2](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=2)) ^262801414 --- We rarely wish for them, but upon reflection I realize they are the reason I am here today ([3](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=3)) ^262801416 --- nothing in this book is something you don’t know of. ([4](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=4)) ^262801442 --- This book is not going to be a revelation. It is meant to be a reminder. A reminder of how life happens to all of us, in a similar yet unequal fashion. ([5](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=5)) ^262801443 --- Thoughts that we all feel, repeatedly, but rarely stop to make sense of. ([6](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=6)) ^262801451 --- This book is not going to change your life. It is meant to make you more aware. So that you make choices in life from a state of awareness and not ignorance ([7](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=7)) ^262801452 --- Every day, open a random page. Read one, maybe three pages. Reflect upon them. Maybe make some notes. Or just smile at how it made you feel. ([8](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=8)) ^262801559 --- stay awesome stay focused do epic shit! ([9](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=9)) ^262801595 --- defining what success really means to you, staying true to that, and then using failures as reflections to create your own success! ([10](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=10)) ^262801647 --- Nothing beats the feeling of having done more in twenty-four hours than what the day expected you to! ([11](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=11)) ^262801722 --- No one sees how you overcame your habits and systems despite having ‘failed’, because they focus on the end result, that you failed. ([12](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=12)) ^263082587 --- What you become during the process of success and failure is what’s most important. ([13](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=13)) ^263082588 --- If you worry that people won’t like your decisions, you will make decisions that would please them. ([14](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=14)) ^263082658 --- 3 relationships that define almost everything that happens to us in our lives. • The relationship we have with money. • The relationship we have with time. • The relationship we have with ourselves. ([15](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=15)) ^263082665 --- consider doing it! Fighting the stereotype is a great way to get attention! ([16](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=16)) ^263082724 --- Being yourself is the coolest way to get attention. Which is scary for most people. Which is the reason most people don’t. ([17](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=17)) ^263083316 --- There is temporary discomfort in doing the unconventional. There is permanent discomfort in living life as a template. ([18](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=18)) ^263083397 --- Your goal is to make people say: ‘I am not sure if she knows how to do it. But I am certain if told to do it, she will definitely figure it out. I trust her. ([19](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=19)) ^263084258 --- Mistakes I made in my 20s ([20](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=20)) ^263084262 --- Just because you are good at something doesn’t automatically ensure you are happy doing it. ([21](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=21)) ^263084272 --- It is not what you do but who you are underneath that defines you. ([22](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=22)) ^263084300 --- I read books that made me look cool. Without truly understanding what I could learn from those books, until much later in life. ([23](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=23)) ^263084342 --- The best gift you can give yourself and to others is to take care of your own happiness. ([24](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=24)) ^263084349 --- Never start up because you want to make money from it. The odds of making the same money through a ‘boring’ professional career is much higher. ([25](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=25)) ^263086741 --- Laying people off is rarely about the job. It is about their self-respect. ([26](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=26)) ^263087027 --- Ninety-nine per cent of people want to be led. They want to be told what to do, and then they will go on to do their best. ([27](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=27)) ^263087382 --- They want to be led. Not managed. ([28](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=28)) ^263087489 --- I thought that no one wants to be led. Everyone wants to do their own thing, so let them. Not true. ([29](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=29)) ^263087712 --- Hope is not a strategy ([30](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=30)) ^263090471 --- As the decade passed, I realized what is truly important in life. It wasn’t money for me, or fame or recognition. It was the ability to do what I wanted to, without caring about what the world thinks of me. ([31](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=31)) ^263091096 --- I made a lot of mistakes on my way to arrive at this definition of success. ([32](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=32)) ^263091215 --- If it weren’t for these mistakes, I would still be an ill-aware 41-year-old adult, who knows nothing better than a 5-year-old does! ([33](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=33)) ^263091430 --- The social media and streaming platforms are designed in a manner that hooks your attention. More you like the content More they will recommend it. More watch time. Less sleep time. ([34](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=34)) ^263101104 --- the smartest minds of the world are 24x7 thinking on how to keep you glued. ([35](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=35)) ^263101237 --- Saying no to everything else and sleeping on time – is the greatest secret sauce of self-love. ([36](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=36)) ^263101336 --- Do not allow comfort to make you believe that you no longer need to try! ([37](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=37)) ^263101417 --- Comfort is a destination. Trying more is a path. ([38](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=38)) ^263101418 --- To get to the next level of destination of comfort. ([39](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=39)) ^263101430 --- Happiness certainly never comes through staying cool in what seems comfortable. ([40](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=40)) ^263101437 --- No step is small, as long as it is headed in the direction of where we want to go. ([41](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=41)) ^263101719 --- In a society that is obsessed with hard work and career success, seeking boredom is an act of rebellion. ([42](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=42)) ^263101732 --- If you follow the right set of people on social media, opportunities will come by design. Not by luck! ([43](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=43)) ^263102148 --- You become like the people you spend your time with – online and offline. ([44](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=44)) ^263102179 --- Habit 1 ([45](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=45)) ^263102528 --- I always carry a notebook with me. I take notes like a school student. I put tasks in a calendar. I send myself emails in the future. My mind’s energy should be spent in thinking. Not remembering! ([46](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=46)) ^263102601 --- Habit 2 ([47](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=47)) ^263102602 --- Document EVERYTHING! At any point I have three notebooks 1. Ideas. 2. To-do lists for the day. 3. Meeting notes. ([48](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=48)) ^263102604 --- Habit 3 ([49](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=49)) ^263102617 --- Everything is on my calendar. Bills to pay, birthdays to remember, threads to write, weekly routines. ([50](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=50)) ^263102619 --- Over fifty per cent of my waking time goes towards things that are important, but not urgent! :) ([51](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=51)) ^263102651 --- Habit 4 ([52](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=52)) ^263102654 --- I schedule emails to myself, for the future. ([53](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=53)) ^263102683 --- Habit 5 ([54](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=54)) ^263102813 --- Using technology for everything possible. ([55](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=55)) ^263102814 --- There are a lot of tasks that suck your time, but do not make you move forward. Consider using technology to solve them for you. ([56](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=56)) ^263102848 --- Habit 6 ([57](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=57)) ^263102849 --- Habit 7 ([58](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=58)) ^263103113 --- Sharing my calendar with my wife. ([59](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=59)) ^263103116 --- use it for easy sharing and access. ([60](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=60)) ^263103130 --- 1. Docs/Images ([61](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=61)) ^263103133 --- Habit 8 ([62](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=62)) ^263103278 --- Afternoon nap is my daily ritual. ([63](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=63)) ^263103281 --- Habit 9 ([64](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=64)) ^263103308 --- Setting the right environment is super-important. I never work from my bed, always on a table. I never read lying down, always on a chair. I never eat while watching something. I never work in a dark room. Always natural light. ([65](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=65)) ^263103336 --- subconsciously tricks your mind to get into the comfort zone! ([66](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=66)) ^263103529 --- Do not underestimate your surroundings while trying to create flow! ([67](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=67)) ^263103530 --- It’s easy to do the easy thing. It’s never ever wrong to do the right thing. ([68](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=68)) ^263131138 --- You will be rewarded instantly for doing the easy thing. You will be rewarded eventually for doing the right thing. ([69](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=69)) ^263131140 --- We aren’t addicted to things. We are addicted to the emotions that these things generate! ([70](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=70)) ^263131149 --- What we are addicted to, is how these things make us feel. About ourselves. ([71](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=71)) ^263131151 --- The purpose of college is to figure out what you enjoy. ([72](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=72)) ^263131153 --- The purpose of college is not just education. Education is easily and massively available on the internet. ([73](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=73)) ^263131158 --- The purpose of college is to find yourself! ([74](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=74)) ^263131159 --- Take online courses. Pick up internships. Learn how to network. Join online communities. Freelance. Run a startup. Travel solo. ([75](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=75)) ^263131289 --- Sit on as many chairs as you can before you find the one chair on which you feel you belong. ([76](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=76)) ^263131371 --- If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. ([77](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=77)) ^263131373 --- We always have choices. No one’s ever stuck. We are just scared to make those choices. ([78](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=78)) ^263131411 --- We always know what to do. We are scared of what our best friend might say. We are scared of what our neighbour might gossip. More than anything else, we are scared of failing, or even trying. ([79](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=79)) ^263131415 --- Risk is better than regret. ([80](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=80)) ^263131418 --- Look around you. People are full of regret. Understand what led to that regret. That will tell you what not to do. ([81](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=81)) ^263131419 --- Do not choose the person you learn from. Choose what you learn from them. ([82](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=82)) ^263131432 --- The most dangerous people in the world are not the ones who are ignorant. They are the ones who are ignorant but BELIEVE they are right! ([83](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=83)) ^263131443 --- on heart, we always know what we truly seek. ([84](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=84)) ^263138214 --- Good people pay a far higher price for being good than bad people pay for being bad.’ ([85](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=85)) ^263171821 --- The toughest skill as a leader is to be calm during the toughest moments. ([86](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=86)) ^263172062 --- Fortunately, or unfortunately, nothing shows you who you are as much as entrepreneurship does. ([87](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=87)) ^263172063 --- Show people who they can be. Instead of telling them who they shouldn’t be. ([88](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=88)) ^263245947 --- ‘You shouldn’t pull others down, be disrespectful of others or make fun of someone’s mental health issues.’ Stating thi ([89](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=89)) ^263245948 --- Words are wise. However, stories strike. ([90](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=90)) ^263245960 --- Irrational optimism is a founder’s death trap! ([91](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=91)) ^263246101 --- Build a culture that picks people up when they are down. ([92](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=92)) ^263246260 --- Somebody out there has ALREADY come up with the same idea that you have! Somebody out there is ALREADY working on the same idea that you have! Don’t overindex on the idea. Instead, find out what it is that they know that you don’t. ([93](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=93)) ^263247649 --- What’s new is solving an unsolved problem in an existing idea. ([94](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=94)) ^263247651 --- It is the employees that run the company, not the other way around. ([95](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=95)) ^263247714 --- It is easy for anyone to start a company. It is super difficult to build a place where people would love to come to work, where people are respected for who they are, and most importantly, where people grow at work and as individuals. ([96](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=96)) ^263247719 --- The three worst reasons to become an entrepreneur: 1. I want to make money 2. I hate my current job 3. Everyone is doing it ([97](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=97)) ^263248260 --- Only when your drive is internal, you are curious, you are consumed by a problem, you would be able to experience the joy of becoming an entrepreneur. ([98](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=98)) ^263248268 --- a society where being trusted is not common, operating with trust is a competitive advantage. People inherently want to be trusted. ([99](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=99)) ^263248328 --- People want to be trusted. They just aren’t given enough opportunities to. ([100](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=100)) ^263248330 --- Money buys freedom. Freedom is a privilege. That freedom helps you make wiser choices. ([101](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=101)) ^263248339 --- Mistakes I made with money ([102](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=102)) ^263248342 --- Mistake 1 ([103](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=103)) ^263248347 --- Mistake 2 ([104](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=104)) ^263248374 --- I took loans to buy real estate. ([105](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=105)) ^263248375 --- I basically went to a casino convinced I would make enough money to repay my loans. ([106](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=106)) ^263248393 --- Mistake 3 ([107](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=107)) ^263248394 --- when tough times happened, I had a lot of ‘paper wealth’ but no cash. ([108](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=108)) ^263248432 --- Mistake 4 ([109](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=109)) ^263248433 --- Mistake 5 ([110](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=110)) ^263248448 --- overindexed on the future. Continued to maintain my lifestyle when I should have lowered it. ([111](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=111)) ^263248459 --- Accumulated more debt. ([112](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=112)) ^263248463 --- Mistake 6 ([113](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=113)) ^263248490 --- Mistake 7 ([114](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=114)) ^263248492 --- I invested in stocks when the markets went high, in the hope of making fast money. I sold in panic when the market tanked, so that I didn’t lose money. ([115](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=115)) ^263248493 --- Mistake 8 ([116](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=116)) ^263248494 --- Because I hated money, I never respected it. And I realized that money didn’t respect me either. ([117](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=117)) ^263248706 --- Taxes are a thing ([118](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=118)) ^263248783 --- Today I think I know. ([119](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=119)) ^263248786 --- Inflation is a thing ([120](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=120)) ^263248856 --- Compounding ([121](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=121)) ^263248879 --- Liquidity is critical. ([122](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=122)) ^263248883 --- If you have excess cash, wait. Wait for the right opportunity. Wait patiently. Wait for markets to drop. ([123](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=123)) ^263248885 --- When in your 20s, live like a pauper. Live within your means. Pay your bills, and then pay yourself by investing. ([124](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=124)) ^263248897 --- Pay for your desires last. Do not take loans for your desires ([125](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=125)) ^263248898 --- 7. Take loans only for things that appreciate in value. ([126](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=126)) ^263248903 --- Do not invest according to your echo chamber. ([127](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=127)) ^263248904 --- Double down on what is working rather than diversify. Diversification will not yield supernormal returns. ([128](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=128)) ^263248913 --- 10 common money mistakes to avoid ([129](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=129)) ^263248976 --- Not valuing your time and treating it like its free. ([130](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=130)) ^263248982 --- Spending your time on things that are easy to measure money-wise ([131](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=131)) ^263249142 --- Taking too many loans. ([132](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=132)) ^263249143 --- Loans tie us down. They increase our burn rate. They make us risk-averse. They make us feel like we are stuck! ([133](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=133)) ^263249146 --- Believing that our income is capped. ([134](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=134)) ^263249147 --- There is no upper limit to how much we can earn. Instead, it is our spending that is capped. We have to spend a bare minimum to live, to survive. ([135](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=135)) ^263249148 --- Trying to time the market. ([136](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=136)) ^263249285 --- Market is too high. Let it fall. Market is low. Right time to buy. ([137](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=137)) ^263249288 --- No one knows the highs or lows of a market. The best way to invest over a long term is to invest regularly. Irrespective of the price at that time. ([138](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=138)) ^263249563 --- Investing because of FOMO. ([139](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=139)) ^263249693 --- Renting your time and not owning any assets. ([140](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=140)) ^263249701 --- Assets, on the other hand, make money, even when we sleep. Start a company. Own stocks. Create rental income. ([141](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=141)) ^263249740 --- Investing late. ([142](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=142)) ^263249741 --- The right time to start investing was when you turned 18. ([143](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=143)) ^263249748 --- The next best time is TODAY ([144](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=144)) ^263249761 --- Money, for most of us, is an outcome. Not an input. It is the result of the decisions we have made, not the reason for the decisions we made. ([145](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=145)) ^263249763 --- Running after money. Money gives you freedom. Freedom is a privilege. ([146](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=146)) ^263249765 --- But the minute we run after money we are not free any more. ([147](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=147)) ^263249896 --- Use money to earn your freedom. Don’t give up your freedom to earn money. ([148](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=148)) ^263249897 --- Take risks early on. And don’t worry about the short-term ups and downs. ([149](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=149)) ^263249900 --- If you do not know how to care for money, money will stay away from you. ([150](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=150)) ^263249952 --- 10 lies I was told about money ([151](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=151)) ^263249954 --- Money is the root cause of all evil. ([152](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=152)) ^263249955 --- it is not money that is the cause. It is the importance we attach to it in our lives. ([153](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=153)) ^263253844 --- Money is simply a medium of transaction. When it becomes an emotion, that is when it consumes us. ([154](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=154)) ^263253846 --- Be wary of those who are rich. ([155](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=155)) ^263253847 --- News covers the abnormal. Not the normal. ([156](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=156)) ^263254057 --- for every immoral rich person, there are countless more examples of people who treat money, people and values with respect. ([157](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=157)) ^263254059 --- Saving money is important ([158](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=158)) ^263254062 --- But we were never told the complete story. That investing is more important. ([159](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=159)) ^263254081 --- To make your money beat inflation, we were never taught how to invest. ([160](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=160)) ^263254109 --- Buying jewellery is an investment. ([161](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=161)) ^263254111 --- gold is an investment, jewellery is not. ([162](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=162)) ^263254118 --- Buying a house is the ultimate financial goal. ([163](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=163)) ^263254119 --- buying a house early in your life is binding and thus can be a regret-filled decision. ([164](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=164)) ^263254134 --- It most likely doesn’t make financial sense (do the maths), it also binds you to a size, to a city and to a locality that you will always find hard to escape. ([165](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=165)) ^263254138 --- All expensive things that we buy are assets. ([166](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=166)) ^263254143 --- The only two assets that I perhaps built over years was my network and my content. None of which I had to pay for, with money. It was bought through my time. ([167](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=167)) ^263254152 --- Taking loans and using credit cards is a sign of your confidence in your future. ([168](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=168)) ^263254156 --- There are two ways to get rich – either work in the same place for a really long time or keep changing jobs every one to two years ([169](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=169)) ^263254158 --- your salary has nothing to do with your wealth. ([170](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=170)) ^263254161 --- It is how much do you own of what makes money for you, even when you are sleeping. ([171](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=171)) ^263254165 --- It is not how much you earn in a job that determines your net worth. ([172](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=172)) ^263254166 --- The only way to make money is to get an education. ([173](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=173)) ^263254167 --- The financially wisest people I know are not just the ones who followed this path, but also the ones who followed no path. ([174](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=174)) ^263254170 --- They kept creating/buying assets – whether their own company, whether stocks, whether intellectual property, whether a side gig, whether investing. ([175](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=175)) ^263254178 --- Once you get rich, give money to those who do not have it. ([176](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=176)) ^263254194 --- So that tomorrow they might not need my money ([177](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=177)) ^263254220 --- I spend my money helping others not by giving them money, but instead by creating opportunities. ([178](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=178)) ^263254221 --- Would you be friends with your own self? Would you marry yourself? Would you be your own boss? What version of you would you rather not be? Why do you still continue being that version? ([179](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=179)) ^263254261 --- The change we want in others is the change we need to begin with. ([180](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=180)) ^263254264 --- The only thing we do not choose is the family we are born to. ([181](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=181)) ^263254278 --- Most people choose to live with this tragedy. And call it fate. The bold ones choose to change what happened to them by actively healing themselves. ([182](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=182)) ^263254284 --- Healing isn’t an option. It is a necessity. ([183](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=183)) ^263254287 --- All relationships thrive on communication. ([184](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=184)) ^263254305 --- Every problem in this world can be traced back to a point of miscommunication. ([185](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=185)) ^263254435 --- Once we know how to communicate and we do communicate, problems move from being problems to actions to be taken. ([186](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=186)) ^263254436 --- There is a big difference between saying thank you and feeling thankful. ([187](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=187)) ^263254440 --- Nothing teaches you better than teaching others. ([188](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=188)) ^263254453 --- Not everyone is going to reciprocate your kindness. Some are even going to play with it. Some are not going to care. Some are not going to acknowledge it ever. Yet, kindness is always the right thing to do. ([189](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=189)) ^263254570 --- Empathy = I understand what you are going through. ([190](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=190)) ^263254576 --- Empathy is either your innate quality or it isn’t. ([191](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=191)) ^263254643 --- You either have it. Or you don’t. There is no work-in-progress. ([192](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=192)) ^263254645 --- Sympathy: I feel sorry for you. ([193](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=193)) ^263254647 --- Respect: I admire the way you are handling this. ([194](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=194)) ^263254649 --- Empathy: I can understand what you must be going through. ([195](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=195)) ^263254650 --- Respect >> Empathy >> Sympathy ([196](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=196)) ^263254652 --- Everyone has stories. Stories that create their filters. Filters that create their stains or clean them. ([197](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=197)) ^263254671 --- True respect is when you respect someone even after you’ve got to know them. ([198](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=198)) ^263254710 --- It’s easy to respect someone online or from a distance. But that isn’t respect. It’s infatuation. ([199](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=199)) ^263254895 --- Run away from those who are trying to run away from themselves. Those who are not willing to heal themselves. Those who do not want to know their deeper parts. Those who are not okay and do nothing to change it. ([200](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=200)) ^263254966 --- Those who do not want to have difficult conversations with themselves. Run away from those who never run towards themselves. ([201](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=201)) ^263254991 --- The nature of arguments is that they thrive on more inputs. ([202](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=202)) ^263255002 --- Respect comes from what you do and who you are. ([203](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=203)) ^263255005 --- Some impose. Others show. Some poke. Others make you more awake. Some show you how you are wrong. Others teach you how to be right. ([204](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=204)) ^263255018 --- It takes effort to find love. It takes effort to feel fulfilled. It takes effort to be fit. It takes effort to be happy. ([205](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=205)) ^263255020 --- Which is why most of us do not have love, fulfilment, happiness or fitness in our life. ([206](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=206)) ^263255021 --- We don’t have to agree with each other as long as we understand each other. ([207](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=207)) ^263255063 --- If we think we are not worthy of love, we will subconsciously deny it. If we truly believe we are worthy of love, we will take the smallest compliments with grace and ease. ([208](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=null&location=208)) ^263255084