All quotes from
Tim's book
The
“normal” systems you have in place, the social rules you’ve forced upon
yourself, the standard frameworks – they don’t work.
Fortunately,
10x results doesn’t always require 10x effort. Big changes can come in small
packages.
It’s the
small things, done consistently, that are the big things.
If you
decide to flip past something note it, return to it later at some point, and
ask yourself, “Why did I skip this?” Did it offend you? Seem beneath you? Seem
too difficult? And did you arrive at that by thinking it through, or is it a
reflection of biases inherited from your parents and others? Very often, “our”
beliefs are not our own.
The
superheroes you have in your mind (idols, icons, titans, billionaires, etc) are
nearly all walking flaws who’ve maximized one or two strengths.
You don’t
“succeed” because you have no weaknesses; you succeed because you find your
unique strengths and focus on developing habits around them.
If you
win the morning, you win the day.
Meditation
simply helps you channel drive toward the few things that matter, rather than
every moving target and imaginary opponent that pops up.
It’s not
what you know, it’s what you do consistently.
Lack of
time is lack of priorities. If I’m
“busy”, it is because I’ve made choices that put me in that position.
Being
busy is a form of laziness – lazy thinking and indiscriminate action. Being busy is most often used as a guise for
avoiding the few critically important but uncomfortable actions.
In a
lowered emotional state, we only see the problems, not the solutions.
The
stories we tell ourselves can sometimes be self-defeating.
“Success”
need not be complicated. Just start with
making 1000 people extremely, extremely happy.
We can be
sure of a few fundamental realities: 1. You’re not nearly as good or as
important as you think you are; 2. You have an attitude that needs to
readjusted; 3. Most of what you think you know or most of what you learned in
books or in school is out of date and wrong.
The more
we associate experience with cash value, the more we think that money is what
we need to live. And the more we
associate money with life, the more we convince ourselves that we’re too poor
to buy our freedom.
Life
favors the specific ask and punishes the vague wish.
