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Conflict resolution
Motivating and inspiring others
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"Making comics is a process by which you strip out the unnecessary noise from a situation until all that is left is the absurd-yet-true core. A cartoonist has to accomplish that feat with as few as four short sentences."
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"Failure always brings something valuable with it. I don’t let it leave until I extract that value."
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“Successful people don’t wish for success; they decide to pursue it. And to pursue it effectively, they need a system. Success always has a price, but the reality is that the price is negotiable. If you pick the right system, the price will be a lot nearer what you are willing to pay.”
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"I’ve come to believe that success at anything has a spillover effect on other things. You can take advantage of that effect by becoming good at things that require nothing but practice. Once you become good at a few unimportant things, such as hobbies or sports, the habit of success stays wi...
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To maximize your energy, you can either be a simplifier or an optimizer:
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Your attitude affects everything you do in your quest for success and happiness. A positive attitude is an important tool. It’s important to get it right.
The way to manage your attitude is to understand that the brain can be programmed for success.
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Humans want many things. The only way to achieve all of them is by organizing your priorities. To organize your priorities, focus on one main metric: energy.
How to maximize your energy:
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The only reasonable goal in life is maximizing your total lifetime experience of something called happiness. That might sound selfish, but it’s not.
If you need, imagine better things, a grander future for you to be happy. The happiness formula:
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Quitting might conflict with the advice you’ve heard all your life— that sticking with something, no matter the obstacles, is important to success.
It's true, overcoming obstacles is normally an unavoidable part of the process. But you also need to know when to quit. Persistence is...
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The most important form of selfishness involves spending time on your fitness, eating right, pursuing your career, and still spending quality time with your family and friends. .
Selfishness is good especially when you are starting your journey to success. You need to
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When seeking truth, your best bet is to look for confirmation on at least two of these dimensions.
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The Success Formula: every skill that you acquire doubles your odds of success. The more concepts you learn, the easier it is to acquire new ones.
Skills which every adult should develop at least a working knowledge:
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We long for clarity and for other people to say what they mean in as few words as possible.
Making wordy sentences that lose their fluency due to needless complexity in a text negatively affects the receiver of your message. In short: big is bad.
The key characteristic of all opening Situation sentences is that they anchor you in a specific time and place, and thus establish the base for a story to come.
You begin writing the Situation by making a statement about the subject with wh...
The anxiety from the Productive Phase, soon drown as you begin to realize that the task is pretty doable, is finite and consists of small, ordinary actions like Googling, reading, and sketching.
Your sense of capability swells and the fear recedes. This phase takes less and less willpower ...
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