[[Topics]] ## Notes - [[89% of success is showing up]] - [[100 little good things]] - [[A big thing is easy. A little thing is easier. A lot of little things is hard.]] - [[Accept that sometimes you will fall. Growth is developed in the moments where you get up.]] - [[Adapting to discomfort develops ability]] - [[Advice that will change you]] - [[Agility is anti-rigid]] - [[A goal is a results - a destination. Habits are what get us there.]] - [[A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step]] - [[Always be happy, but dissatisfied.]] - [[Always be moving forward]] - [[Always push yourself]] - [[Amor fati]] - [[An investment of effort]] - [[Another word for challenge is opportunity]] - [[Any fool can die. Living takes imagination.]] - [[Any job, big or small, do it well or not at all. Once a job has begun, do not stop until it's done.]] - [[Athletics is not so much about the legs. It's about the heart and mind.]] - [[Augment talent with effort]] - [[Bailing on boring projects - Ask Adam Savage]] - [[Be brave and be patient]] - [[Become practiced in adapting to disruption]] - [[Be driven, not dragged.]] - [[Be impatient with inefficiency. Be patient with persistence.]] - [[Being in love with someone (something) is not about fate - it's about work]] - [[Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself]] - [[Beyond limits - Eliud Kipchoge]] - [[Break the boundary and make it through. Don't let the boundary break you.]] - [[Building my new studio was chaotic]] - [[Challenges are opportunities to discover who you really are and who you want to be]] - [[Challenge the default. Challenge presumptions. Challenge yourself.]] - [[Compound ordinary outputs to extraordinary outcomes]] - [[Conviction is forged through the trials of challenge]] - [[Cultivate the discipline it takes to win the morning battle between your snoozable alarm and your comfortable bed]] - [[Define your non-negotiables. Do them everyday.]] - [[Difficulty makes the difference]] - [[Discipline equals freedom]] - [[Discipline is doing something you hate like you love it]] - [[Discipline of action]] - [[Dissolve anxiety through acceptance]] - [[Do good everyday. Do good consistently. Do good together.]] - [[Do hard things - Steve Magness]] - [[Doing things you dislike is one of the most powerful skills you can develop]] - [[Do it anyway]] - [[Do not pray for an easy life. Pray for the strength to endure a difficult one]] - [[Don't just desire to succeed, refuse to give up]] - [[Don't let your own light dim]] - [[Do something principle]] - [[Do the parts that suck so that you can do the parts that don't]] - [[Eventually, quality will find its audience.]] - [[Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become]] - [[Every build is going to have tedium and consternation... and it's part of the process]] - [[Everyday effort]] - [[Every opportunity is a challenge. Every challenge is an opportunity.]] - [[Everything is practice]] - [[Excellence demands effort and planned, deliberate practice of increasing difficulty.]] - [[Exceptional results requires exceptional effort]] - [[Expand your comfort zone, both in depth and in breath.]] - [[Expand your comfort zone towards an area that matters most to you.]] - [[Extraordinary results require extraordinary effort]] - [[Eyes upward, feet forward, and hearts homeward]] - [[Fall often. Pick yourself up and try again.]] - [[Fear of hard work]] - [[Feel the fear and do it anyway!]] - [[Friction point]] - [[Get comfortable with being uncomfortable]] - [[Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.]] - [[Grit is passion and perseverance for very long term goals]] - [[Grit - The power of passion and perseverance]] - [[Hardship is never easy]] - [[Hard work dissipates ignorance]] - [[Hard work doesn't equal success]] - [[Hard work isn't a guarantee for success, but it is a requirement for it]] - [[Hard work turns your talent into mastery, your intelligence into wisdom, and your character into strength.]] - [[Having talent isn't good enough. Being clever isn't good enough. You have to show up.]] - [[He's not falling. He's rising.]] - [[How the comfort zone is ruining your life]] - [[How to build unbreakable discipline]] - [[How to do hard things]] - [[How to get motivated even when you don't feel like it]] - [[How to stay motivated - The Locus rule]] - [[How we almost quit]] - [[I am here, and all of my dreams and aspirations are there. And the only thing between these two is a bunch of work.]] - [[I am not what happened to me. I am what I choose to become.]] - [[I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.]] - [[I do it because I can, I can because I want to, I want to because you said I couldn't]] - [[I don't know everything. I just know I have to try.]] - [[I don't often lose my temper, but I often have to use it]] - [[I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times]] - [[If life pushes you hard, you push back harder]] - [[If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it—then I can achieve it.]] - [[If you accomplish difficult things, you distinguish yourself from others by what you have achieved]] - [[If you have an idea that you genuinely think is good, don’t let some idiot talk you out of it.]] - [[If you have the discipline to get out of bed - you win]] - [[If you’re going through hell, keep going.]] - [[If you want to be a writer, keep writing. And read all you can, read everything.]] - [[I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.’]] - [[I hit that wall and had to find another way to go over it, under it, or through it.]] - [[I'm here. All of my dreams and aspirations are here. And the only thing in-between these two is a bunch of work. That's all the motivation I need.]] - [[Improvement is a profound motivator]] - [[Inspiration is for amateurs — the rest of us just show up and get to work]] - [[Ira Glass on storytelling]] - [[Is success luck or hard work]] - [[It is not how you fall. It is how you pick yourself back up.]] - [[It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.]] - [[It is the nature of human nature that we lose the skills we have acquired when we're not practicing.]] - [[It's alright not to get it all right]] - [[It's not about doing it once a quarter, once a month, or once a week. It's about doing it every day - especially on days you really don't want to.]] - [[It's not about getting it right. It's about not giving up.]] - [[It's not about talent. It's all about follow through.]] - [[It's not about the quantity of practice, but the quality of practice.]] - [[It's not that we have to do 50 push ups, it's that we get to do them]] - [[It won't fail because of me]] - [[I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed]] - [[I visualize where I wanted to be, what kind of player I wanted to become. I knew exactly where I wanted to go, and I focused on getting there.]] - [[I wasn't the funniest guy growing up, but I was the guy who worked on being funny the hardest.]] - [[Just because you know you're bad, doesn't mean you need to feel bad about it.]] - [[Just keep swimming]] - [[Just keep trying]] - [[Let's get to work]] - [[Life is a walking]] - [[Love is work. That's what makes it worth it.]] - [[Mindset of a champion]] - [[Mindset reset. How to overcome the negative thoughts and actually achieve your goals.]] - [[Modern work - Barack Obama]] - [[More and less]] - [[Morning runs]] - [[Motivation gets you going, but discipline keeps you growing.]] - [[Motivation helps you move forward. Discipline keeps you from falling behind.]] - [[Move forward with finesse]] - [[Move forward with tiny, gentle, intentional and forgiving steps]] - [[Moving forwards provides freedom from fear]] - [[Moving forward with the river]] - [[My life is just jokes]] - [[Natural talent is highly over-rated. It's determination, determination, determination.]] - [[Navy seal commander explains why wake up at 4AM]] - [[Never rest on your laurels]] - [[Nobody cares what you did yesterday. What have you done today to better yourself?]] - [[Nothing in the world can take place of persistence.]] - [[Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty.]] - [[On good days, you "get to do". On bad days, you "might as well".]] - [[On the other side of that wall, is where you want to go. Do the uncomfortable thing and breakthrough to become the person you wish to be.]] - [[Orient towards the pain to become aligned with what you're capable of accomplishing rather than just orienting towards the pleasures.]] - [[Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time we fail.]] - [[Overcome challenges and transform effort into instinct]] - [[Overcome challenges to awaken potential]] - [[Overcome the circumstances and yourself]] - [[Overcoming difficulty as a practice]] - [[Overcoming is the precursor to becoming]] - [[Over-justification effect]] - [[Owning the morning is a critical part of owning the day.]] - [[Pareto principle]] - [[People think they need perfect conditions to start, when in reality, starting is the perfect condition.]] - [[Perseverance is practiced based on the merits of your values]] - [[Perseverance vs persistence]] - [[Persistence and patience]] - [[Persistence stems from the satisfaction of pursuing a goal, not just from achieving it.]] - [[Persistent practice of doing hard things will make them less hard]] - [[Philosophy of design - Sir James Dyson]] - [[Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work]] - [[Practice graduates the methodical to instinct]] - [[Practice never betrays]] - [[Progress over perfection]] - [[Prove yourself wrong by enduring, overcoming, and becoming better]] - [[Reading critical viewer comments - Ask Adam Savage]] - [[Rise from your actions to become the person you wish to become]] - [[Running sucks.]] - [[Running thoughts]] - [[Running water never runs stale, so you gotta keep on flowing]] - [[Say no to 1000 things before saying yes]] - [[Shallow desires don't compel sacrifice, whereas a committed purpose sacrifices everything]] - [[Some of the work is just a grind]] - [[Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.]] - [[Sometimes the hardest things are the ones most worth doing]] - [[Starting is easy, finishing is hard]] - [[Strive to enjoy every single morning for the rest of our busy and unpredictable lives]] - [[Struggle shapes your purpose]] - [[Success comes with the refusal to fail]] - [[Success isn't measured by what you achieve; it's measured by the obstacles you overcome.]] - [[Sustainability is defined by achievable everyday actions]] - [[Systems design systems]] - [[Tackle the Mount Everest challenge of bridging the knowledge gap with a relentless courage to understand]] - [[Take action anyway]] - [[Take one emboldened curious step at a time]] - [[Take the challenge, learn from "failure", and continue to try]] - [[That's all there is in a crisis. Trying.]] - [[The art of acquiescence]] - [[The best are unreasonable in their pursuit to being the best]] - [[The boundary is the "make it or break it" moment]] - [[The difference between try and triumph is just a little "umph"]] - [[The discipline equation]] - [[The everyday resume]] - [[The further outside the comfort zone something is, the more mental resistance there is in the way of doing that thing.]] - [[The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.]] - [[The grind]] - [[The harder the struggle, the more glorious the triumph]] - [[The harder you work, the luckier you become]] - [[The key to success is failure]] - [[The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be]] - [[The mark of a great professional is finishing the job even when they don’t feel like it]] - [[The more you strive for improvement, the more motivated you become.]] - [[The next 5 seconds]] - [[The obstacle is the way]] - [[The only lasting motivation is self-motivation]] - [[The pain of regret is far worse than pain of discipline]] - [[The path to good is to be less bad than the day before]] - [[The path to purpose is paved with pain]] - [[The person you wish to become is waiting on the other side of your comfort zone]] - [[The power of believing that you can improve]] - [[The power to endure]] - [[The real work begins near the end]] - [[There are a lot of sharks in the world. If you hope to complete your swim, you will have to deal with them.]] - [[There is intense fascination with men who detest mediocrity, who refuse to define themselves in conventional terms, and who seek to transcend traditionally recognized human capabilities.]] - [[There is no substitute for work. Worthwhile results come from hard work and careful planning.]] - [[There's very little in life that's worth achieving, that isn't hard.]] - [[The reward for good work is more work]] - [[The reward for harder work is more work]] - [[The walls mark the boundaries between comfort and growth - who you are now and who you can become]] - [[The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places]] - [[Thriving. That's fighting... Surviving is barely getting by.]] - [[To become a champion requires a good mental attitude towards preparation. You have to accept the most tedious tasks with pleasure]] - [[Tony Hawk's one piece of advice for success]] - [[To stay driven, you must first understand what truly drives you.]] - [[Tough situations build strong people]] - [[Triumph is success with an interesting failure story]] - [[Turn what you have to do into what you get to do]] - [[Never lie; never cheat; never steal. Don’t whine; don’t complain; don’t make excuses.|Two sets of threes]] - [[Ultimately, problem-solving is about not giving up]] - [[Under the blankets is no way to fame]] - [[Walk on]] - [[We don't erase our mistakes. We embrace them.]] - [[We don't rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of our training.]] - [[We marvel not at widgets one can buy...]] - [[We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated. Nothing will work unless you do.]] - [[What makes someone great isn't that they can create something remarkable. It is that they don't give up until they do.]] - [[When others judge you, keep working hard. While they make fun of you, put in even more effort.]] - [[When we stop, that's when we die.]] - [[When you know what you want, and you want it bad enough, you'll find a way to get it.]] - [[Why effort matters more than talent]] - [[Why it pays to work hard]] - [[Winners never quit and quitters never win]] - [[Work hard in silence]] - [[Working on hard things often makes working on hard things easier]] - [[Yesterday you said tomorrow]] - [[You always grow through what you go through]] - [[You are one good meal away from starting your diet and you are one good workout away from getting stronger]] - [[You can run low, but never run out.]] - [[You can't overcome the feelings that are rising up, but you can take action despite them]] - [[You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.]] - [[You don't have to get it right the first time. You just need to get it right eventually.]] - [[You may not control all the events that happened to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.]] - [[You more you live life, the better it will get, the easier it will become, and the stronger you will feel.]] - [[You must do the hard thing in order to become better]] - [[You need momentum to do things more than you need motivation]] - [[Your blessing in life is when you find the torture you're comfortable with]] - [[Your comfort zone expands to meet you]] - [[Your comfort zone is always shrinking, if you don't do anything about it.]] - [[You rise to the level of your ambition. You fall to the level of your systems.]] - [[Your mind has to be stronger than your feelings]] - [[You want to be uncommon amongst uncommon people. Period.]]