Greatness Within You

Big splashes don’t happen. We have to remind ourselves of that whenever we’re impatient. 

When you’re trying to achieve your goals, improve yourself, and live a better life, there are moments you want to speed things up. It happens to every ambitious person. People who never do anything with their lives don’t suffer from this. 

Learning is not a rigidly formal system of precisely labeled steps.

Learning is messy. It’s trial and error. It’s failing and then failing again and then slowly figuring it out.

You can’t borrow someone’s motivation. No matter how many books you read or chants you do you won’t become more motivated.

Motivation comes from inside. It comes from you and nowhere else.

Your task is to help your team and team members do good work. You should understand that the mission is important, not you.

As a leader, you’re just there to make things work better.

Coaching should be your primary tool in leading. If your coaching sessions seem more like you’re the therapist and your team member the patient, you’re doing it wrong. 

Your team members should pay attention to how it will be different in the future.

We think non-fiction is more educational, but great fiction is possibly an even vaster vessel of wisdom. Imagination defines the boundaries of possibility and is far greater than mere knowledge.

Fictional stories tell us how the one-dimensional facts that we learn from history and science and philosophy mesh together.

Jargon, prejudice, and even previous knowledge holds up our learning, locking us into one-dimensional thinking.

Clarity comes when we reach the edge of our understanding and play around there without fear.

According to John T. Reed the famous book is filled with bad advice:

Dangerous advice

• "If you're gonna go broke, go broke big"
• Convinces people that college is for suckers

Law-breaking advice

• Advocates committing a felony: have rich friends for trading stock based on non-public inside information, he says "That's what friends are for."
• Recommends tax fraud by deducting vacations and health club dues
• Brags about using a partner weasel clause in which his cat is his partner

Many critics pointed out that Kiyosaki is selling a cult, not financial advice.

He is accused of tapping into the fantasies of the masses & being short on specifics, both attributes of religious cults.

An artist lives and breathes art. The clothes, the home decoration, the hairstyle, even the words that artists speak are their own creation, deliberate and intentional.

A true artist is a living work of art.

An authentic artist is diverse in his art forms, with a lot of interests.

There are several ways to express oneself and a true artist recognizes that.

Getting off the 'hamster wheel' or the 'rat race' and just breathing is an option that no one talks about, as everyone is into doing more, sacrificing health and sleep for productivity and their perceived notions of success.

You must challenge yourself to take action sooner rather than later.

Planning and strategizing are important parts of the beginning of a new project, but be careful not to lose yourself indefinitely in these steps.

Blame is nothing but an easy way out of taking responsibility for your own outcomes. It’s a lot easier to point a finger at someone or something else instead of looking within yourself. 

Blame is not constructive; it does not help you or anyone else.

"He who hesitates is lost."

• When you make a decision or a plan of action, be in an energized state of mind.
• Create various accountability and fail-safe mechanisms to remove any possibility of doubt.
• Stick to your decision until it is done.