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How to set achievable goals
How to manage time for personal and professional life
How to avoid distractions
Find and Build Specific Knowledge
- Specific knowledge cannot be taught, but it can be learned.
- Specific knowledge is found much more by pursuing innate talents, your genuine curiosity, and your passion.
- You do need to be deep in something because otherwise you’ll be a mile wide and an inch deep and you won’t get what you want out of your life.
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Live by your Values
- Much of finding great relationships, great coworkers, great lovers, wives, husbands, is finding other people where your value line up.
- If your values line up, the little things don’t matter.
- “To find a worthy mate, be worthy of a worthy mate.”
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How to Think Clearly
- The really smart thinker are clear thinkers. They understand the basics at a very, very fundamental level.
- What you feel tells you nothing about the facts— it merely tells you something about your estimate of the facts.
- It’s actually really important to have empty space. If ...
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Find a Position of Leverage
- The meaning of life is to do things for their own sake. Ironically, when you do things for their own sake, you create your best work.
- The less you want something, the less you’re thinking about it, the less you’re obsessing over it, the more you’re going to do it in a natural way.
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Choosing to Grow Yourself
- If there’s something you want to do later, do it now. There is no “later”.
- Set up systems, not goals.
- Read everything you can.
- Inspiration is perishable. When you have inspiration, act on it right then and there.
- Sit and close your eyes for at least an hour a...
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Build or Buy Equity in Business
- People seem to think you can create wealth—make money through work. It’s probably not going to work.
- Without ownership, when you’re sleeping, you’re not earning. When you’re retired, you’re not earning. When you’re on vacation, you’re not earning. And you can’t earn nonlinearly
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Collect Mental Models
- Mental models are really just compact ways to recall your own knowledge.
- Reading science, math, and philosophy one hour per day will likely put you at upper echelon of human success.
- What are the most efficient ways to build new mental models? — Read a lot. Just read.
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Understand How Wealth is Created
- Making money is not a thing you do - it's a skill you learn.
- Getting rich is about knowing what to do, who to do it with, and when to do it.
- You’re not going to get rich renting out your time. You must...
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Be Patient
- You have to enjoy it, and keep doing it. Don’t keep track, and don’t keep count because if you do, you will run out of time.
- It takes time — even once you have all of these pieces in place, there is an indeterminate amount of time you have to put in
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Success Does Not Earn Happiness
- Happiness is being satisfied with what you have. Success comes from dissatisfaction. Choose.
- If you’re peaceful inside and out, that will eventually result in happiness.
- You can get almost anything you want out of life, as long as it’s one thing and you want it far more than ...
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Find Happiness in Acceptance
- In any situation in life, you always have three choices : you can change it, you can accept it, or you can leave it.
- Pick one big desire in your life at any given time to give yourself purpose and motivation.
- Acceptance looks like being okay whatever the outcome is. It’s to b...
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How to get Lucky
- To get rich without getting lucky, we want to be deterministic. We don’t want to leave it to chance.
- Build your character in a certain way, then your character becomes your destiny.
- Be a maker who makes something interesting people want. Show your craft, practice your craft...
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Learning Happiness
- The three big ones in life are wealth, health, and happiness. We pursue them in that order, but their importance is reverse.
- Happiness is really a default state. Happiness is there when you remove the sense of something missing in your life.
- A happy person isn’t someone who’s...
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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 ...
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