To rise above the modifications of your mind, when you cease your mind, when you cease to be a part of your mind, that is yoga.
Marketing to me means to identify exactly who your ideal customer is: knowing their behavior, knowing their age, knowing their gender, knowing their location. And 9 times out of 10, in my opinion, the easiest way to do that is to just sell to people who are as similar to you as possible.
Most people are fast to stop you before you get started but hesitate to get in the way if you’re moving.
Never automate something that can be eliminated, and never delegate something that can be automated or streamlined. Otherwise, you waste someone else’s time instead of your own, which now wastes your hard-earned cash.
People are fond of using the its not what you know, its who you know adage as an excuse for inaction, as if all successful people are born with powerful friends.
Role models who push us to exceed our limits, physical training that removes our spare tires, and risks that expand our sphere of comfortable action are all examples of eustress – stress that is healthful and the stimulus for growth.
Seemingly unrelated [things] that are in fact really related, that’s the stuff I like to talk about. Like dancing, language learning, swimming, three-pointers…
Take the analytical frameworks; the capabilities that you have and apply them to old fears, apply them to very big dreams.
The advice I give for sustainable behavioral change, including diet, is that you make one change at a time.
The best results I have had in my life; the most enjoyable times, have all come from asking the simple question: ‘What is the worst that could happen?’
The common sense rules of the ‘real world’ are a fragile collection of socially reinforced illusions.
The fishing is best where the fewest go and the collective insecurity of the world makes it easy for people to hit home runs while everyone is aiming for base hits.
The goal is to find your inefficiencies in order to eliminate them and to find your strengths so you can multiply them.
The guiding tenant, which I encourage you all to embrace, whether it’s looking at split testing for a start-up, whether it’s looking at increasing profits per user, average revenue per user or changing your body, is to pause and reflect whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority.