Keep reading for FREE
Knowing When To Quit
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 useful, but there’s no point in being an idiot about it.
2.57K
5.36K reads
MORE IDEAS ON THIS
Priorities
- Think of your priorities in terms of concentric circles, like an archery target. In the center is your highest priority: you.
- The next ring—and your second-biggest priority—is economics. That includes your job, your investments, and even your house. If you don’t get...
2.98K
5.33K reads
2.59K
12.7K reads
Passion Is Bullshit
- It is hard to tell whether passionate people are passionate because they are successful or they are successful because they are passionate.
- Passion sounds more accessible. If you’re dumb, there’s not much you can do about it, but passion is somethin...
2.77K
12.4K reads
Happiness
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:
- Eat right
- Exercise
2.83K
5.73K reads
"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...
SCOTT ADAMS
2.63K
5.01K reads
“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.”
SCOTT ADAMS
2.78K
9.04K reads
Success Isn’t Magic
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:
- Public speaking
- Psychology
- Business writing
3.05K
6.11K reads
Managing Your Attitude
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.
- Incr...
2.74K
5.02K reads
The Selfishness Illusion
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
2.83K
8.26K reads
Optimizing Vs Simplifying
To maximize your energy, you can either be a simplifier or an optimizer:
- A simplifier chooses the easiest path to a goal
- The optimizer looks for the very best solution despite the increased complexity.
2.69K
7.94K reads
The Energy Metric
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:
- Eat right
- Exercise
- Avoid unnecessary stress...
2.91K
6.81K reads
Choose Systems Over Goals
- If you achieve your goal, you celebrate and feel terrific, but only until you realize you just lost the thing that gave you purpose and direction. Goal-oriented people exist in a state of continuous presuccess failure at best, and permanent failure at worst if things never w...
2.89K
9.93K reads
"Failure always brings something valuable with it. I don’t let it leave until I extract that value."
SCOTT ADAMS
2.81K
16.2K reads
Patterns for Success
- Lack of fear. A lack of fear of embarrassment is what allows one to be proactive. It’s
- what makes a person take on challenges that others write off as too risky
- Education (the right kind). Generally speaking, the people who have the right ki...
2.67K
5.76K reads
"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."
SCOTT ADAMS
2.53K
13.7K reads
The Six Filters for Truth
- Personal experience
- Experience of people you know
- Experts
- Scientific studies
- Common sense
- Pattern recognition.
When seeking truth, your best bet is to look for confirmation on at least two of these dimensions.
3.17K
27.2K reads
CURATED FROM
CURATED BY
MORE LIKE THIS
5 Keys to asking better questions
Asking a lot of questions (lots but not too many) unlocks learning and improves interpersonal bonding.
- TYPE 👉 People interacting with a partner who asks lots of follow-up questions (solicit more information) tend to ...
Answers To Common Interview Questions
- Can you tell me a little bit about yourself? Don’t tell your life story; answer clearly and concisely. Focus on professional accomplishments.
- Why should we hire you over the other applicants? Say, “I don’t know the skill of others, but I do my own,” then highlight your strengths and ...
Ready for the next level?
Read Like a Pro
Explore the World’s
Best Ideas
200,000+ ideas on pretty much any topic. Created by the smartest people around & well-organized so you can explore at will.
An Idea for Everything
Explore the biggest library of insights. And we've infused it with powerful filtering tools so you can easily find what you need.
Knowledge Library
Powerful Saving & Organizational Tools
Save ideas for later reading, for personalized stashes, or for remembering it later.
Start
31 IDEAS
Start
44 IDEAS
# Personal Growth
Take Your Ideas
Anywhere
Organize your ideas & listen on the go. And with Pro, there are no limits.
Listen on the go
Just press play and we take care of the words.
Never worry about spotty connections
No Internet access? No problem. Within the mobile app, all your ideas are available, even when offline.
Get Organized with Stashes
Ideas for your next work project? Quotes that inspire you? Put them in the right place so you never lose them.
Start
47 IDEAS
Start
75 IDEAS
My Stashes
Join
2 Million Stashers
4.8
5,740 Reviews
App Store
4.7
72,690 Reviews
Google Play
Shankul Varada
Best app ever! You heard it right. This app has helped me get back on my quest to get things done while equipping myself with knowledge everyday.
“
samz905
Don’t look further if you love learning new things. A refreshing concept that provides quick ideas for busy thought leaders.
“
Ashley Anthony
This app is LOADED with RELEVANT, HELPFUL, AND EDUCATIONAL material. It is creatively intellectual, yet minimal enough to not overstimulate and create a learning block. I am exceptionally impressed with this app!
“
Sean Green
Great interesting short snippets of informative articles. Highly recommended to anyone who loves information and lacks patience.
“
Ghazala Begum
Even five minutes a day will improve your thinking. I've come across new ideas and learnt to improve existing ways to become more motivated, confident and happier.
“
Giovanna Scalzone
Brilliant. It feels fresh and encouraging. So many interesting pieces of information that are just enough to absorb and apply. So happy I found this.
“
Laetitia Berton
I have only been using it for a few days now, but I have found answers to questions I had never consciously formulated, or to problems I face everyday at work or at home. I wish I had found this earlier, highly recommended!
“
Jamyson Haug
Great for quick bits of information and interesting ideas around whatever topics you are interested in. Visually, it looks great as well.
“
Read & Learn
20x Faster
without
deepstash
with
deepstash
with
deepstash
Access to 200,000+ ideas
—
Access to the mobile app
—
Unlimited idea saving & library
—
—
Unlimited history
—
—
Unlimited listening to ideas
—
—
Downloading & offline access
—
—
Personalized recommendations
—
—
FAQ
Claim Your Limited Offer
Get Deepstash Pro
Supercharge your mind with one idea per day
Enter your email and spend 1 minute every day to learn something new.
I agree to receive email updates